Newcastle United Football Club has bought the Woolsington Estate.
This historic parkland, in Newcastle's Green Belt and the Ouse Burn Catchment wildlife corridor, is now earmarked for a £190 million Premier League football training ground.
A huge training ground here will likely see loss of mature and veteran trees and woodland and the further erosion of an increasingly fragmented wildlife corridor, as well as pesticide and chemical fertiliser run-off into the Ouse Burn and increased light and noise pollution.
The Woolsington Estate is a haven for wildlife and veteran trees: the last of its kind in Newcastle. Any development at Woolsington should protect and enhance the ecology of the area.
We have launched a petition calling for the natural environment to be front and centre of any planning decisions at Woolsington.
Please sign and share the new petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/don-t-show-woolsington-woods-the-red-card