WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE FEB 2020
Canterbury City Council’s planning committee’s decision to approve a highly controversial application to extend the Wincheap Park & Ride onto water meadows next to the river Stour is…
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BOARDWALK DESTROYED IN ARSON ATTACK
A fire in the early hours of 14th February completely destroyed 80% of the boardwalk. Our sincere thanks go out to everyone who has expressed their sympathy and…
JANUARY WILDLIFE NOTES
Back in 2013, overflying cormorants were not an unusual sight, but for some reason numbers have tailed off since then. So I’m pleased to report that in January…
WILLOW HARVEST
Our band of willow weavers returned for a weekend this month to take another harvest of young stems from the stumps that were cropped last year. The women…
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WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE JAN 2020
The campaign to prevent the extension of the Wincheap Park and Ride onto the Wincheap Water Meadows, across the river from Hambrook Marshes, is still active. Canterbury City…
WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE DEC 2019
The final decision on the fate of the park and ride extension has had to be set back yet again, this time because the council cannot rule on…
WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE NOV 2019
The countryside charity, CPRE Kent, has initiated a legal challenge against the Council’s planning application to build a car park on the meadows. The Save Wincheap Water Meadows…
WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE OCT 2019
The application to extend the park and ride was approved at the planning committee stage on 15th October, but a decision by the full council two days later…
WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE SEPT 2019
About 900 objections were submitted to the council in total before the deadline for comments. However, more excellent letters have been published this month in the Gazette, and…
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