Watery Lane Site Preparation Update_

15 August 2020

A local resident and naturalist, Richard Hellier, has been working hard on your behalf to liaise with the director and site manager of the firm undertaking the site preparation works at Watery Lane.

Part of the agreement for the development at Watery Lane requires the developer to put aside in perpetuity and to develop and maintain a large area of the land for community use as a SANGS (Site of Alternative Natural Green Space).

While some of the works now underway are to prepare the development site, there are also works now underway in the summer months to make the area of SANGS more accessible to the public and of higher ecological value.

Some local people are very concerned with work being undertaken when the field is looking at its very best with so much biodiversity and naturalness. But Martin Grant Homes have been willing to listen and to try and make small changes to improve the outcome for wildlife.

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