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Two excerpts from A Writers Day-Book, by Ronald Blythe

An application to register a site on the edge of the King Charles Estate at Bradpole as a village green has been delayed.

An application to register a site on the edge of the King Charles Estate at Bradpole as a village green has been delayed.

A PLAN for a wind farm that can generate enough electricity to power 24,000 homes is being drawn up for a hilltop area of northern Torfaen.

Pennant Walters has unveiled early stage preparations for an application for a new 48MW wind farm at Mynydd Llanhilleth in Wales. The company, which is the renewable development arm of the Walters Group, said the proposals will be deemed a ‘Development of National Significance’ (DNS) under current legislation in Wales. DNS applications are submitted to the Planning Inspectorate Wales for consideration, before being decided by Welsh Ministers, it added. Part of the site also lies within the ...

Updated Wednesday, 28th April 2021, 1:56 pm Peter Pollak is promoting and supporting the new Grant A Green campaign being launched by the Open Spaces Society. A lifelong Market Harborough rambler is urging councils across the East Midlands – give us a green. Peter Pollak, 75, is promoting and supporting the new Grant A Green campaign being launched by the Open Spaces Society. The UK’s oldest national conservation body, which dates back to 1865, is calling on councillors to register their o...

Britain’s oldest national conservation body has launched its Grant A Green campaign to free up public land. The Open Spaces Society is urging local councils to voluntarily register their open spaces as town or village greens, to protect them from development and give local people rights of recreation there. The society has explained that it is more important now than ever to secure our green spaces. Not only have the restrictions on movement meant that people have discovered that thei...

Call for councils to protect open spaces by registering as town or village greens “This is the moment for local councils to set an example and voluntarily register their land as town or village greens,” say the Open Spaces Society The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, today (Monday 26th April) launches its Grant A Green campaign.  The society urges local councils in England and Wales voluntarily to register their open spaces as town or village greens, t...

Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of the Open Spaces Society, said: “The Open Spaces Society is notified of all such applications and objected, arguing that there was already a vehicular access to the centre and no need for two separate routes creating a one-way system. PICTURED: The parish centre site. Picture: Alison Bailey “The common is owned by Chesham Bois Parish Council which did not comment.” After Bucks Council refused planning permission for the new parish centre in January...

MOSSLAND in Golborne could be restored to create a ‘carbon sink’ and a refuge for wildlife as Wigan council uses a law from 1899 to reclaim the common. Edge Green Common, which has no registered or traceable owner, is already home to a range of habitats including acid grassland, woodland and peat bog. As well as capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it serves as a ‘stepping stone’ between other mossland and wetland sites in Wigan, Warrington ay Risley Moss and...