Home to robins, wrens and warblers - but not for much longer
A YORKSHIRE developer has been given the planning thumbs-up to build 14 homes on a leafy site off Station Road in Stallingborough.
He is Nigel Corban, of Ilkley, whose approved proposal is for four detached bungalows, two pairs of semi-detached bungalows, two pairs of semi-detached houses and two detached houses.
Because the plot provides habitat for nesting songbirds, North East Lincolnshire Council's ecology officer Rachel Graham called for a pre-decision ecology survey to establish what wildlife was at risk and what safeguarding measures could be adopted.
However, Engie planning officer Jonathan Cadd decided not to implement Ms Graham's request on the grounds that the retention of a hedgerow would suffice.
It is not known when work will start on the project.
Soon to be lost - feeding habitat for passing goldfinches and linnets
The Grimsby News says: There is no reason to believe this will not be an attractive development, but it is a shame that it will lead to the removal of wildlife including songbirds which, no doubt, regularly visit nearby gardens and provide a dawn chorus in spring. Ms Graham was right to have called for a pre-decision ecology survey, and Mr Cadd was misguided in snubbing her request. It is surely an unhealthy situation when planning decisions are made with little or no sensitivity to the importance of nature.
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