Thank you to The Squeaker for allowing us to let local people know about our campaign. If you haven’t had it through the door, you can view it online here. We’re on pages 40-41.
Please object to the building of a new road in the Tong and Fulneck Valley
Please support our friends at Save Tong and Fulneck Valley and object to Bradford Council’s plan to build a road across the Tong and Fulneck Valley, which in turn will allow them build houses and industrial units.
In our view this will destroy Black Carr Woods and precious greenbelt.
A document is linked below. Please print it off, sign, and send to the address on the front page or drop off at the collection point at the BankHouse Pub. It is also possible to email the form to planning.policy@bradford.gov.uk
Click here to download the document
Please be quick, the deadline is Tuesday, 24th September.
More litter picks
We have scheduled another three litter picks.
All will take place at 10am on the following dates.
28th Sept – Crimbles Place, Lowtown
26th Oct – Crawshaw Road nr. Zebra Crossing
30th Nov – Fox & Grapes
Please wear gloves and bring any litter pickers if you have them.
Litter Pick Report #3
Apologies for the delayed post!
Many thanks to all who helped on the litter pick held on the 29th June 2019. We performed a big clean up on the section of proposed greenway near the Fox and Grapes and western end of Greenside tunnel.
Take a look at some other projects
We’ve added a page to the site with lings to other complimentary projects. Take a look here.
First up is the Bradford to Halifax Greenway that is very similar to our project in the fact it incorporates a tunnel. If you have time please object to the planning application for abandonment. Full instructions are here.
A message from our friends at the Save Tong Valley campaign
Dear members and friends,
Please join us next Wednesday June 12 2019 at 7.00 pm in the Tong Village Hall (The Old Schoolroom).
We are holding a Trustees meeting and there will be a short amount of trustee business, but the main purpose of the meeting is to discuss the Bradford Council proposals for a South East Bradford Link Road through the Tong Valley.
WE WANT TO APPOINT MORE TRUSTEES> COULD YOU ADD TO THE STRENGTH OF OUR BOARD?
You may have seen the Article in the Telegraph and Argus, but in case you missed it here is the link
We have been warning of this possibility for several years, but we now have the evidence of the Council’s intentions. This proposal will devastate the Valley and is the key indicator that the Council intends to push ahead with the the Holme Wood Urban Extension of 2700 Houses, despite the substantial drop in new homes needed in the Bradford District. Depending on the route selected people in Fulneck and the Westroyds will be affected by noise and pollution.
It could well create rather than alleviate congestion, and its prime purpose is to maximise the opportunities for private developers in Tong Valley at a public cost which the T & A puts at over £60 million,
Our Chair will be attending the Combined Authority sub- committee meeting in Leeds on Tuesday which will decide on the funding and will report back to us at the meeting on Wednesday.
Do come and bring anyone who might be affected
John Finnigan, Joint Hon Secretary
Looking out for the bats
Members of the Pudsey Greenside Greenway Group are working with West Yorkshire Bat Group.
At the latest Bat Group training batty enthusiasts met at St Chads in Far Headingley and were reminded how the West Yorkshire Bat Survey works with volunteers walking 3 to 4 kilometres with specialist bat detection equipment along a pre determined route at night.
These routes are carefully selected and spaced evenly across the county. At this latest training we learned how use the equipment and also undertook some troubleshooting before walking through some nearby woods and detecting some very obliging Pipistrelle and Soprano Pipistrelle bats.
Greenside Greenway Group will have access to the equipment to monitor our Pudsey Bats in May/June and again in July/August.
