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| Green and leafy - but for how much longer? |
SCORES of trees and shrubs look set for the chop at the former Pleasure Island theme park in Cleethorpes.
The trees are scheduled to be felled to make way for redevelopment of the site with a petrol station, a supermarket and holiday chalets.
As well as being intrinsically beautiful, the trees are home to nesting birds and roosting bats.
But none of them - individually or collectively - are protected by a Tree Preservation Order.
The extent of the probable loss is likely to become apparent on submission - expected any day soon - of the formal planning application for redevelopment of the site.
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| Blossoming - but probably for the last time |
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| Soon to make way for a fuel fill-up station? |
The Grimsby News says: Developers and planners often proclaim their commitment to safeguarding Nature - until it gets in the way. Then the high-minded principle is summarily discarded and the bulldozers move in. The particular risk at Pleasure Island is that the trees will be felled, then - for financial or other reasons - redevelopment grinds to a halt, leaving a derelict site. That would be a classic lose-lose situation. If the trees and shrubs are to be lost at this particular location, NELC must impose a strict planning condition that, as compensation, the same number of trees, of similar maturity, are planted elsewhere on the seafront.
This must not be allowed to happen as you cannot replace such naturl habitat adjacent to the coastal strip, that is
ReplyDeletebeing used by local birds and wildlife like badgers, foxes, bats Owls and many other species of local wildlife and also local and passage bird species as both nesting and feeding areas.