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Doc Brewster


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colin davies wrote:

 This might be a controversial comment, but purely from a diversity point of view, you'd be better building on arable fields than on a brownfield site.

Controversial but true!! I totally agree re the diversity of the 2 in comparison with each other. Having done some freelance environmetal consultancy work in the past I have seen it in reality too. The only wee addendum has to be that agricutural or Green Belt land always has the option of management and change, which is usually a harder option on Brown Belt if there are huge areas concreted or tarmacked over. Ancient trees chopped down in the past and concrete laid are impossible/difficult to reverse.

Being an avid local patcher I do feel really sorry for anyone with their patch fully or partially on this Tatton Services site no



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Brownfield sites might not always be as aesthetically pleasing as some habitats but they are often oases surrounded by a monoculture of farmland. They can be havens for wildlife, especially for invertebrates and plants. The diversity of a brownfield site is usually far higher than surrounding greenbelt farmland, and they can have species which are rare or unknown elsewhere within a region. This might be a controversial comment, but purely from a diversity point of view, you'd be better building on arable fields than on a brownfield site.



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Sadly Johns comment are so true , they will build where they want no matter what protests or petitions are signed ..

A very interesting point Mark Cocker made at the RSPB talk in Bredbury early this year , in that some Brown belts sites now have more wildlife in than Green belts sights , but no matter what the loss of common birds and Habitats is unmistakably the fault of councils and politicians.

 

 

 

 



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Unfotunately like the green belt arable land at silver lane pool junc 11 m62 , there is little care what wildlife is on the site .They will always find a way to build on any land they want to.



-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 27th of October 2023 07:38:57 AM

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Andy Slee


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I appreciate this may be Cheshire but must be close to GM.

 

Wasn't there supposed to be a High Speed Railway Built here? Oh, now there isn't lets put a load of cars and shops here instead. Must be pretty close to Rosterne?

 

https://www.tattonservices.com/_files/ugd/484169_b385e809ecd1475486d941fa83cb68cc.pdf



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