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I wasn t the only one to spend 2020 worrying about newts. Like many, the forced confinement of the past year focused me in on my own patch, made me pay attention to things that had previously passed me by. One of the things I noticed was that the area at the end of my garden that had once been a pond was now a weed-grown swamp, devoid of life. Wildlife ponds are having a moment.
Ed Sheeran has had a two-year battle with irate Suffolk neighbours over a vast pond he built to encourage dragonflies, newts and toads (he was accused of wanting to use it as a swimming pool). And last summer David and Victoria Beckham won planning permission for a wildlife lake of their own, although the council specified that they must provide escape routes for aquatic animals when digging out the silted-in site they were seeking to renovate.
ITS future has been uncertain for nearly 50 years but campaigners are again working to preserve at least part of the site. Bushfield Camp and the adjacent Bushfield Down has been disused since the mid-1970s when the Ministry of Defence pulled out. Since then there have been several attempts to secure the long-term future of the downland area between the camp and Whiteshute Ridge. A bid for Millennium funding for a country park was unsuccessful as was a later attempt to have it declared a ‘village green’. Now Bo Priestley is campaigning for the downland to be saved from any form of development. The camp area, off Badger Farm Road, is earmarked in the local plan as a potential business park.
Last winter our land was flooded but not the house. When we wished to build an extension we were not even allowed to apply for planning permission until we had an environmental survey carried out. The building was put up with a floor level 600 millimetres above ground level to avoid flooding, but we were not allowed to replace the ancient septic tank with a modern bio-digester as this might add phosphates to the river.
RELATED NEWS: We have also planted 1,500 trees and hedging plants to help with water absorption. I think it is pretty well established that dredging and straightening rivers only moves your flooding problems downriver onto others, and the correct action is to increase the meanders of the river and plant more trees on the banks to absorb run-off.
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