Wildlife Circus

                                            Air raid shelter Hillcroft Dear Reader please fell free to use any or all of the objection below, you only have until tonight to object. This is part of a series of 4 posts. Dear Sir or Madam Objection to Hillcroft redevelopment 22/000607 I object to this as being environmentally destructive and the mitigation is derisory. The ecological work is disjointed and difficult to follow. All the features found appear to be destroyed. These are the ecological features to which the mitigation hierarchy should be applied starting with AVOID as per the National Planning Policy Framework. There is no logic to ‘amenity’ grass containing so many species and there are swathes of bluebells which cannot be ignored. The evaluations are flawed, the...

                                               Borough News June 1970 The opening of Powell House Paragraph 3.16 of the Heritage Statement states that the 'Residential College of Working Women', purchased the 6-acre site known as 'The Gables' that would be later named Hillcroft in 1925. This can be read on the planning file in a bundle of 143 documents supporting the over/redevelopment of the college (one document is missing to protect the public from the knowledge that there are protected species onsite).     In the Table on page 30 we are told that 'Powell house has no historic associations with local people or past events'. So who was it named for?   The Borough News item above reporting on Hillcroft's fiftieth anniversary celebrations states, "at ...