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We now have some breathing space, and an opportunity to look for other ways to keep up the pressure on Canterbury City Council to abandon its planned extension…

The Save Wincheap Water Meadows campaign group has been working tirelessly for the past year to prevent the council’s plans for a park and ride extension on the…

The highlight for me was seeing 17 marbled white butterflies at the end of the month. Their headquarters is the scrubby field alongside the A2 embankment, but this…

Contractors started work on removing the remains of the boardwalk and pond-dipping platform on July 2nd. All the stumps of over a hundred plastic posts embedded four feet…

Grass growth was suppressed by the prolonged drought, but path verges finally received a cut this month. Clippings were gathered up to use as a mulch around the…

It’s been rather a quiet period, with no surprises. Sadly, we don’t seem to have any reed warblers on Hambrook this year, and another lover of the same…

None of the paths on Hambrook are rights of way, but we are pleased to be able to allow the public onto the Marshes to enjoy the delights…

In May we were only granted 5.9mm of rain, compared to a mean for the month of 50mm over the past 40 years. The 18 trees we planted…

While delighted to see so many people able to make use of the Marshes for salvaging their sanity during lockdown, we’re less happy with the vastly increased amount…

Serco’s drastic flailing of the water meadow in early May caused widespread dismay and anger. The cutter was set so low that it scuffed the soil, totally destroying…