RESIDENTS and conservation campaigners have raised questions about why their local council has decided to prevent a free ecological study of nearby green lung land. Gib Hill, located between Nelson and Colne, was designated for housing by Pendle Borough Council in 2005 and has been targeted by developers in the years since, while local campaigners hope instead to ecologically protect and enhance the area and keep it for community use. To do so, the Lancashire Wildlife Trust offered to carry out a comprehensive wildlife survey of the area to assess its ecological value, however their suspicions were raised when Pendle Borough Council turned down this offer.
Pendle: Campaigners raise suspicions over council s refusal to survey Gib Hill land
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