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× RESIDENTS were left ‘horrified’ this week after birds were disturbed during nesting season when developers dug up a hedgerow to make way for a 45-hectare business site.
The hedgerow, off Tankersley Lane in Hoyland, was removed to make way for the new 363,000sq ft distribution hub for parcel giant Hermes.
Although the structure is built, landscaping work around the site has commenced which includes the removal of established boundary hedges.
Onlooker David White said it was heartbreaking - especially in nesting season.
“It was soul-destroying to see - many of the hedgerows will be lost to facilitate access infrastructure and large commercial units,” he added.
× ENVIRONMENTAL activists’ pleas for work to stop on a delivery giant’s £60m parcel hub after thousands of tons of coal was removed have been dismissed by Barnsley Council.
Work has already started on delivery giant Hermes’ £60m project off Tankersley Lane in Hoyland, which is set to become Europe’s largest parcel distribution hub.
Planning reports revealed the 46-hectare site had been the location of extensive opencast mining - which started in the 1940s - but campaigners urged the local authority to step in after HGVs were witnessed removing an estimated 30,000 tons of coal.
Campaigners from action group Rebuilding Environment and Community in Hoyland (REACH) urged an immediate stop notice to be issued as a result over worries that the coal would be burnt, exacerbating concerns over the borough’s climate emergency.