The pitch is now in use. Around the pitch there are timber sleepers. They have been part covered with an Astro turf to help stop the cracking noise of hockey balls hitting the boards. It appears that this Astro solution is partly soundproofing in the immediate vicinity of the pitch at it’s high level above… Continue reading Hockey Pitch Back Board Noise
Author: James
Are Nationally Protected Landscapes Protected?
This news comes to our blog from @merrowdarkskies and you can follow this feed, see the twitter link on the top right hand corner of our save merrow downs website. #Urbanisation is a condition we should not be subject to and the #Greenbelt is fast browning? Just how many developments acknowledged by Inspectors as contrary… Continue reading Are Nationally Protected Landscapes Protected?
We have spotted through the fence of the boundary to Urnfield, a large amount of discarded waste. The waste chemical container is labelled ‘Mascot’. If this is Mascot systemic chemical for treating earthworms, it is highly toxic to humans and wildlife.. This is located to where we know there is badger activity and the lid handle appears to be worn away.
Mascot when sprayed is harmful to honey bees, and so if the grounds staff are still using it, it would be harmful to insects around and in the wild meadows below the field.
UrnField Planning Issues
Several local residents and Residents’ Associations have been busy in the last few weeks scrutinising the plans and strategies being sent in by Tormead to meet the conditions set down by the planning inspector. There seems to be very little triangulation going on at Tormead’s end….some of the plans (e.g. construction plan) directly contradict others (e.g. the Landscape and Ecology Management Plan). So it is left to us to point out the deficiencies and contradictions.
