Around 2015 the future of Thetford was determined as plans to build a huge 5,000 home development was approved. Six years later, the first phase of this 30-year plan is well under way.
“It’s one thing going in with a chainsaw to cut down diseased trees, compared to ripping and clawing out undergrowth and clearing an entire area.
“This is also an area special to many in Thetford. It is a lane where they played as children and continued to use for recreation to this day.”
Residents and councillors in Thetford say they are “devastated” after the removal of woodland on land belonging to the Kilverstone Estate by Joe Blunt s Lane.
- Credit: Hazel McCambridge
Kilverstone Estate’s forestry contractor said the area would have been inspected by the Forestry Commission to consider the impact of the proposal on the woodland wildlife and that a European Protected Species survey was carried out – as required by the Forestry Commission Felling Licence.