Swinley Forest fire lasted seven days. He said deer should have been able to flee but some creatures may have been less lucky, including dragonflies, ground-nesting birds, adders, lizards, slow worms, frogs and toads. Mr Hazlitt added: “It s clearly tremendously devastating. The place will recover - it s seen fires before - but in the short term, it s going to be a very different landscape and it s going to curtail some of the activities that the public enjoy and it s going to have a severe impact on some of the wildlife.
What resources were used? Fire crews from London, Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, West Midlands, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire travelled to Bracknell Forest to help put out the blaze.
33 homes for Warfield are set to be approved. again A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build nearly three dozen homes in Warfield which already received permission once before is set to get the council’s approval again in a move which will save the authority £35,000. Hodson Developments originally submitted proposals to put up 33 homes at Herschel Grange off Warfield Street in June 2019 following the demolition of an existing house, but more than 18 months later the fate of the building work is still up in the air. This is despite councillors giving applicants their blessing to go ahead with the works in December 2019.