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Peter Pollak is promoting and supporting the new Grant A Green campaign being launched by the Open Spaces Society.
A lifelong Market Harborough rambler is urging councils across the East Midlands – give us a green.
Peter Pollak, 75, is promoting and supporting the new Grant A Green campaign being launched by the Open Spaces Society.
The UK’s oldest national conservation body, which dates back to 1865, is calling on councillors to register their open spaces as town or village greens.
The Open Spaces Society argues that the pivotal move will protect them from development and give local people rights of recreation there.
Britain’s oldest national conservation body has launched its Grant A Green campaign to free up public land. The Open Spaces Society is urging local councils to voluntarily register their open spaces as town or village greens, to protect them from development and give local people rights of recreation there. The society has explained that it is more important now than ever to secure our green spaces. Not only have the restrictions on movement meant that people have discovered that their local open spaces are essential for their health and sanity, but also those spaces are under unprecedented threat, said the organisation.
Call for councils to protect open spaces by registering as town or village greens
“This is the moment for local councils to set an example and voluntarily register their land as town or village greens,” say the Open Spaces Society
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, today (Monday 26th April) launches its Grant A Green campaign.
The society urges local councils in England and Wales voluntarily to register their open spaces as town or village greens, to protect them from development and give local people rights of recreation there.
Under unprecedented threat
The society explains that it is more important now than ever to secure our green spaces.
The mould in her daughter s bedroom. (Image: Nicola Hodgson)
Ms Hodgson said that following a recent visit from the council, she was told that the mould and damp was caused by her lifestyle because she had her clothes drying in the bathroom.
Ms Hodgson said: “I’m just being fobbed off all the time.
“As long as they are getting their rent, they aren’t bothered about the conditions I’m living in. They know I have got my daughter living with me here.
The slugs found in Nicola s home. (Image: Nicola Hodgson)
“She was three-years-old when the damp started. Since she was just three or four years old started developing tonsillitis, I have only just found out this can be caused by damp.