Richard Bond
Published:
11:23 AM December 22, 2020
Updated:
12:50 PM December 22, 2020
David Pooley at Sotshole Broad with Peter Crook, the then chairman of South Walsham PC
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A businessman who turned an abandoned Norfolk Broad into a haven for wildlife has died aged 71.
David Pooley bought 60 acres of woodland containing Sotshole Broad, near Ranworth, in 2005. The broad had been neglected for generations and had shrunk in size as vegetation had grown up around it.
David Pooley
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He spent three years and hundreds of thousands of pounds of his own money dredging the site and putting in wooden piling and a boardwalk. The Broad was returned to the size it had been on a map from 1886.