Homes England has submitted an application (MC/26/0436) to build 450 houses on the former Chattenden Barracks near Lodge Hill! This will result in the loss of Nightingales at the Chattenden Woods & Lodge Hill SSSI. Please donate HERE to our legal fundraiser.
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Help save Kent's Nightingales and Waders on the Hoo Peninsula!
Medway Council’s new Local Plan allocates around 6,000 houses on the environmentally sensitive Hoo Peninsula in Kent. This is a precious and special place, home to internationally and nationally protected habitats and wildlife.
The Hoo Peninsula, located between the River Thames and River Medway, functions as a vast bird sanctuary, with hundreds of thousands of migratory birds relying on its marshes and farmland to survive. It forms part of the UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site bid known as the East Coast Wetlands.
The Council's plan puts extraordinary wildlife at risk. 75% of all breeding waders in the South East are found here (such as Lapwing and Redshank), but large-scale housing development would increase disturbance and predation.
Following the previous Lodge Hill plan being thrown out in 2013, history is repeating itself: between 26% and 45% of Nightingales at the Site of Special Scientific Interest (the best place in the country for the species), are also under threat.
Red-listed farmland birds such as Skylark, Corn Bunting, and Turtle Dove would be lost too - along with top-grade and productive agricultural land that supports nearby estuary wildlife.
The Save The Hoo Peninsula Campaign has therefore instructed a well-established environmental planning solicitor to take on our case, alongside a leading ecologist with over 40 years’ experience.
Now we need your help and support: please donate whatever you can so we can challenge this plan and protect the beautiful and irreplaceable wildlife of the Hoo Peninsula - your donation will go directly to our legal team (Richard Buxton Solicitors).
Join the fight today.
Please make a donation to our CrowdJustice legal fundraiser by clicking HERE.
Thank you.
Michael Pearce
Campaign Leader
Save The Hoo Peninsula
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