From David Verity
My home backs on to a site that was once occupied by a small farm and a
number of allotments. These have long since gone, and the land has been left
fallow for many years now. A remarkable range of trees, wild grasses and other
plants, birds, small mammals and insects live in and around the site.
Its future? Our local authority plans to bulldoze it to make way for “vitally
needed” fast food restaurants and a petrol station, among other things. As far
as I am aware no one from the authority has bothered to look at the biodiversity
of the area.
Oldham, Lancashire
