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SOS Allotments appeal

Please have a read of this and then sign the petition to support the allotmenteers - https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-cemetery-road-allotments-huddersfield?bucket=email-blast-27_11_2017_temblast_27nov_4mlrad

Thanks in advance on their behalf.

Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Plato
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    signed. 

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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  • Signed.

    Wearside, England.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    Thanks all.  Lots of allotments under pressure cos they're an easy target, especially for unimaginative councils and planners.   

    Given it's Huddersfield there must be all sorts of  "dark satanic mills" that could be converted to houses and apartments.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Signed.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    I don't think they need to be tarted up to provide accommodation.  Some of them are beautiful - just need internal insulation, leccy, plumbing etc.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    It seems these allotments are in peril because of plans to install an all weather football pitch which could just as easily be placed nearby.   What a waste!!

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    All weather pitch PF - plastic grass!

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • pbffpbff Posts: 433

    Signed.

    I was reading 'Bee Quest' last night, a fantastic book by Dave Goulson, who started the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

    He was describing the brownfield sites on the Thames Estuary and how they are much more biodiverse than greenfield sites, being as greenfield sites are mostly farmland and so heavily fertilised, pesticide-treated and fairly sterile, whereas brownfield sites are the opposite.

    The unfortunate thing about these places is this: brownfield sites are often only surveyed just before they're ready to be developed. On some of these sites, really rare species or even new species are discovered, then have to be relocated before the area is built on.

    As Dave Goulson points out, relocated creatures rarely succeed, as often we do not know their full habitat requirements, especially with the different insects. If we do know the habitat requirement, the species is relocated to an area of suitable habitat, which is likely to have that species present already and that habitat cannot support an increase in number of the same species, so roughly the same amount of creatures that were relocated there, die.

    When will the powers-that-be wake up and realise that once they build on everything, and turn the rest of any land that's left into high-production farmland, heavily dosed with every chemical they can think of, we will have lost many of our fascinating insects and other creatures - and once they're gone, the other wildlife will suffer.

    Gardens and allotments, when managed in a nature-friendly way, are crucial for our wildlife - and they even want to take these away from us!

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