Tag Archives: Skylark

Crossness news – incinerator, Water Voles, birds, butterflies, bees, bugs and upcoming events …..

Posted on 17/05/2019 by Chris Rose

Karen Sutton provides an update from Crossness LNR at Erith Marshes about the latest issues, wildlife and public events at the site …….. Crayford Marshes success, and Cory’s plans that will impact Crossness Nature Reserve: Back in 2016, many of … Continue reading →

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Bexley RSPB walk report – Foots Cray Meadows – Upper College Farm – Five Arches, Tuesday 20th March 2018

Posted on 25/03/2018 by Chris Rose

Kingfisher, Skylark and an unusual concentration of Jays were highlights of this post-snow walk to the west of Bexley village. Full report from Ralph and Brenda Todd: http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Local-Walk-Foots-Cray-Meadows-March-2018.pdf    

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Bexley Council plans by-pass across Crayford Marshes. Proposal buried in 117 page ‘Growth Strategy’. More potential damage to SSSI contender. Relevant to, but not mentioned at railfreight depot planning meeting.

Posted on 12/07/2017 by Chris Rose

Bexley Council is proposing further major damage to one of the Borough’s best wildlife areas, one that is of London-wide and potentially national importance and has often been mentioned as a potential Site of Special Scientific Interest. Detailed examination of … Continue reading →

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Nature history – Bexley conveniently forgets about previous Skylark policy

Posted on 20/05/2017 by Chris Rose

Over the last year Bexley Council has approved building on two of the three known Skylark nesting sites in the Borough – the only Skylark breeding habitat on Erith Marshes, and on part of the main breeding site at Crayford … 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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Support declining wildlife on Crayford Marshes – please take 10 minutes to write a letter (before October 6th)….

Posted on 26/09/2016 by Chris Rose

Please make your voice heard for Bexley’s disappearing wildlife, using the suggestions in this post…… As many readers will know, there is a proposal from a company called Roxhill to destroy Green Belt and most of a Site of Importance … Continue reading →

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Erith Quarry – a response to ‘developer’ spin in the online News Shopper article

Posted on 25/09/2016 by Chris Rose

Reference the news Shopper’s latest Erith Quarry article: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14762148.Hundreds_of_snakes_and_lizards_ca/ It’s very disappointing to see that an old, rather selective, photo giving the impression that the quarry site is an unkempt rubbish dump has been wheeled out again to contrast with the ‘developer’s’ artist’s … 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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London Bird Report 2014 provides useful data on Bexley’s species of conservation concern

Posted on 28/05/2016 by Chris Rose

The London Natural History Society’s team behind the annual London Bird Reports have been doing a grand job of catching up with themselves after things had fallen a few years adrift, and have recently mailed out the 2014 edition, which … Continue reading →

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Cory Environmental Trust declines to answer awkward questions over Borax fields ‘hypocrisy’

Posted on 15/05/2016 by Chris Rose

As part of the ongoing ‘Save our Skylarks’ campaign, the Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve recently wrote to the head of the Cory Environmental Trust, the body that dispenses grants from the company’s landfill tax breaks for, amongst other things, … Continue reading →

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