Inquiry live – day eight (and seven)
Can you believe it’s already the end of week two? Back at HQ this week has flown by, but it’s been business as usual for ‘Team Oaken’ – here’s our Katy with your final update for this week: “Yesterday...
View ArticleInquiry live – week three
It’s mostly outdoors during week three at the Oaken Wood inquiry: “This week we went on the two site visits planned. Day two of the site visits mainly looked at the heritage uses of ragstone in the...
View ArticleInquiry live – end of week three
Katy tells us how things went at the end of week three in Maidstone, when the local residents had their say: “Friday (14th December) was for the third party representatives, in which people in the...
View ArticleInquiry live – the end
After 10 blogs in our special ‘Inquiry live!’ series, we come to the end of the Oaken Wood Public Inquiry: “Tuesday (December 18th) was the last day of the Public Inquiry. The session was spent giving...
View ArticleDecisions, decisions…..
Finally, we reach the end of a long and winding process. It has taken 13 witnesses, two barristers, 11 third party interest groups and individuals, and more boxes of paper than any one cares to imagine...
View ArticleHere we go again!
The dust hasn’t yet settled on the Oaken Wood Public Inquiry, and already the Trust is having to stand up for ancient woodland in Kent at another public inquiry. This time it’s the proposed widening of...
View ArticleMr Pickles, what have you done!
When you set out to fight against loss of ancient woodland, you know you are the underdog. No amount of words from a ‘greenest Government ever’ will reassure you that ancient woodland will be protected...
View ArticleSee no evil, hear no evil
Noise and vibration from the trains that could one day inhabit the HS2 rail line are a major concern for the Woodland Trust. 34 ancient woods lie between 26-200m of the track’s centre line and remain...
View ArticleFallen Giant – an inspiration for kids of all ages…
I settled down last night to read a bedtime story to my four year old Rosa, with our latest acquisition from the local library – the Alfie Out Of Doors storybook by Shirley Hughes. Within it is an...
View ArticlePlease have YOUR say on the Lobbying Bill
I’m sure most of you will have seen the negative press surrounding the Government’s misguided Transparency of Lobbying Bill – or the “gagging bill” as it has come to be referred as. If enacted in its...
View ArticleBiodiversity Offsetting – what impact will ‘offsetting’ have on ancient...
One of our key principles for any biodiversity offsetting scheme is that ancient woodland should not be part of it. There are two questions within the Government’s offsetting Green Paper which offer...
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