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We help to protect Hamsterley green, County Durham

September 23, 2022

We have welcomed a decision which will help protect Hamsterley village green, VG45, six miles west of Bishop Auckland in County Durham. Hamsterley Parish Council had applied to the environment secretary for permission to deregister part of the green, which includes a ribbon of green verge along Saunders Avenue, to facilitate access to a new…

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Café on Bristol’s Downs

July 5, 2022

We are dismayed that councillors in Bristol have approved plans for a café on the city’s glorious downs, close to the Avon Gorge.  We have called for radical reform of the nineteenth-century Downs Committee, which put forward the plans. Bristol’s iconic sea-walls are a wholly inappropriate site for a café.  It will spoil the view…

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