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Save Chippenham Save Chippenham is an umbrella organisation representing all groups that are fighting to protect Chi Together we must stop the road and the housing.

Save Chippenham is spearheading the campaign to protect the south of Chippenham. Wiltshire Council is planning to build a road between the A350 at the Lackham roundabout and the A4 London Road to the east (please see photographs) together with up to 4,200 houses on glorious countryside. Wiltshire Council has not consulted the residents of Chippenham on this scheme and is acting undemocratically to

avoid public scrutiny. The road will not ease congestion as the Council likes to suggest but will add between 8,000 to 10,000 more cars to the area. By their intended actions the Council is showing a total disregard for the Climate Crisis.

Dear Follower, A planning application is being made for 41 houses on land East of Patterdown Road, Chippenham (Pl/2024/0...
17/11/2024

Dear Follower,
A planning application is being made for 41 houses on land East of Patterdown Road, Chippenham (Pl/2024/02998). Julie Wheeler, a well known local naturalist of Nature Matters, is asking us to lodge our objection by Wednesday 20th November. She asks Wiltshire Council’s Ecologists and the Planning Officer to consider further the following factors:

• Although the Botanical Report (on behalf of the developers) categorises this field (at Patterdown) as atypical MG1 grassland (ie 'semi natural grassland'), Julie argues, that the land is in fact in transition from being MG5 (ie ‘unimproved neutral grassland ….the once ubiquitous type of old meadow and pasture of English lowlands… now in need of protection' - Natural England website 2024) to MG1 because of its history of abandonment, explaining the rich biodiversity.
This ‘richness’ includes ‘7/10 of the indicator species for categorising the field as MG5 (ox-eye daisy, common sorrel, yellow meadow vetchling, meadow buttercup, ribwort plantain, cowslip, common cat’s-ear in addition to four species of native orchid (Pyramidal orchids, Bee orchids, Twayblades and Spotted orchids)’

The land being offered instead for biodiversity net gain is MG7 (poor semi-improved grassland). Although the Botanical Report states that ‘using the biodiversity net gain process it is possible to …deliver a net gain of at least 10%’ (p 4), Julie suggests ‘this may never produce the species-richness of the field at Patterdown’

A recent report stated that the ‘UK is within the lowest 10% of countries globally on the Biodiversity Intactness Index, and biodiversity assessments show negative trends for many species.’ Therefore, urgent and transformational action is essential to tackle the linked crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.’

‘We are being asked to trade the loss of this habitat for very dubious promises of gains in habitat some 20/30 years in the future. I think this is unacceptable, and strongly object to this planning application. This field should be protected’.

Julie Wheeler 2024

To lodge your opposition please go to: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ3000004xay1/pl202402998

For more information or to contact Julie, please go to her site:
https://www.facebook.com/julie.ballinger.96

Dear Follower, A planning application is being made for 41 houses on land East of Patterdown Road, Chippenham (Pl/2024/0...
17/11/2024

Dear Follower,
A planning application is being made for 41 houses on land East of Patterdown Road, Chippenham (Pl/2024/02998). Julie Wheeler, a well known local naturalist of Nature Matters, is asking us to lodge our objection by Wednesday 20th November.
She asks Wiltshire Council’s Ecologists and the Planning Officer to consider further the following factors:

• Although the Botanical Report (on behalf of the developer) categorises this field (at Patterdown) as atypical MG1 grassland (ie 'semi natural grassland'), Julie argues, that the land is in fact in transition from being MG5 (ie ‘unimproved neutral grassland ….the once ubiquitous type of old meadow and pasture of English lowlands… now in need of protection - Natural England website 2024) to MG1 because of its history of abandonment, explaining the rich biodiversity.
This ‘richness’ includes ‘7/10 of the indicator species for categorising the field as MG5 (ox-eye daisy, common sorrel, yellow meadow vetchling, meadow buttercup, ribwort plantain, cowslip, common cat’s-ear in addition to four species of native orchid (Pyramidal orchids, Bee orchids, Twayblades and Spotted orchids)’

The land being offered instead for biodiversity net gain is MG7 (poor semi-improved grassland). Although the Botanical Report states that ‘using the biodiversity net gain process it is possible to …deliver a net gain of at least 10%’ (p 4), Julie suggests ‘this may never produce the species-richness of the field at Patterdown’

A recent report stated that the ‘UK is within the lowest 10% of countries globally on the Biodiversity Intactness Index, and biodiversity assessments show negative trends for many species.’ Therefore, urgent and transformational action is essential to tackle the linked crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.’

‘We are being asked to trade the loss of this habitat for very dubious promises of gains in habitat some 20/30 years in the future. I think this is unacceptable, and strongly object to this planning application. This field should be protected’.

Julie Wheeler 2024

To lodge your objection please go to: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ3000004xay1/pl202402998

For more information or to contact Julie, please go to her site:
https://www.facebook.com/julie.ballinger.96

Hi Everyone, We hope you are all well. Since our last post, we have been busy working hard behind the scenes. Last Novem...
16/04/2024

Hi Everyone, We hope you are all well. Since our last post, we have been busy working hard behind the scenes. Last November, a group of us submitted 10 'representations' as part of Save Chippenham's response to the Local Plan Review (Regulation 19). We believe that 2,500 houses on the land south of Chippenham is still too many and that the road planned to accompany them unnecessary. Comments from Wiltshire Council are expected in the coming months. If you would like to follow progress, please use the link below: https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/article/8048/Regulation-19-consultation-autumn-2023
In the meantime, please support another great plant sale (see below) partly in support of Save Chippenham. Thank you!

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