Category Archives: BNEF

Poor biodiversity score contributes to Bexley’s 29th out of 33 placing in annual London parks report

Posted on 10/10/2019 by Chris Rose

The 2019 Good Parks for London report makes sobering reading for Bexley, which has been ranked 29th of the 33 Boroughs and City of London after scores were added up across ten different criteria. One of these was ‘Supporting Nature’, … Continue reading →

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Community Infrastructure Levy spending consult – deadline 5p.m. Fri March 2nd

Posted on 01/03/2018 by Chris Rose

Bexley Council is consulting on what the priorities should be for spending money obtained from developers who are given planning permissions. The deadline is  5p.m. Fri March 2nd. E-mail views to SP&GTeam@bexley.gov.uk  You may wish to draw on the following suggestions put … Continue reading →

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Some plants around Perry Street Farm surprisingly include Sea Campion

Posted on 12/08/2017 by Chris Rose

Perry Street Farm, largely used for horse grazing, is now a Borough Grade 2 Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC). It is private, but viewable from the north and west sides from public roadways and from the east side … Continue reading →

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Cory/Borax fields found to be of regional, possibly national, importance for invertebrates (post outline planning permission …..). Campaigner pressure appears to be paying dividends.

Posted on 22/07/2017 by Chris Rose

Further wildlife survey work, required by Bexley Council as part of its granting of outline planning permission for the building by Cory of large data centres on open fields next to Crossness Nature Reserve, has revealed them to be of … Continue reading →

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How Bexley Council voted yes to concreting Crayford Marshes Green Belt and yet another designated wildlife site

Posted on 21/03/2017 by Chris Rose

Back on February 16th a majority of Bexley Council’s Planning Committee voted with the chief planning officer’s recommendation to approve the Roxhill ‘Strategic Railfreight Interchange’ scheme on the southern part of Crayford Marshes, termed the landfill and agricultural area.  This … Continue reading →

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Now Bexley rips out mature shrub beds

Posted on 04/02/2017 by Chris Rose

Mature shrubs in Bexley parks and verges are not just being cut back to the ground to save having to do any more trimming for a few years, but are being dug up completely. Two of the latest cases involve … Continue reading →

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Two years on and Bexley Council planning pages still mislead on objections

Posted on 25/09/2016 by Chris Rose

Twenty four months after Bexley Natural Environment Forum first raised the matter, Bexley Council’s ‘view planning applications online’ webpages continue to wrongly state that the group has made no comments on proposals to damage Sites of Importance to Nature Conservation and … Continue reading →

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Your views on Bexley Natural Environment Forum sought

Posted on 30/08/2016 by jonathanrooks1@outlook.com

The Bexley Natural Environment Forum is an umbrella body for Friends of Parks and Open Spaces groups, local wildlife and conservation enthusiasts, sustainability campaigners and those with a general interest in the natural environment of Bexley. The Forum works to … Continue reading →

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Online Borax Fields petition launched as Friends of Crossness NR and BNEF slam Cory claim that the rarer something is in Bexley, the less important it is to protect it.

Posted on 03/06/2016 by Chris Rose

Following a second, but still grossly inadequate ‘ecology report’ from Cory ‘Environmental’s Riverside Resource Recovery arm – that once again misses out red-listed breeding birds, and offers no credible onsite ‘mitigation’ or creation of off-site ‘compensatory’ habitat for the losses … Continue reading →

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Battle of Borax fields – Save our Plovers (and Skylarks)

Posted on 30/04/2016 by Chris Rose

The red-listed Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula), a species of the highest national conservation concern,  is again breeding on the Borax fields next to Crossness Nature Reserve. Skylark, also red-listed, is thought to be doing likewise, and Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius … Continue reading →

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