Wildlife Circus

  This application should be withdrawn until some of the issues are properly dealt with. This pertains to the incompatibility with the London Plan and the access to open space. Our unrestricted access to 'open space' as detailed in the original Barton Wilmore document, has recently been withdrawn on the 'authority' of the police. The perception was that it encouraged 'anti-social', behaviour. This has been compounded recently by a sign on the cemetery gates stating that dogs are prohibited. This means that on occasion when the cemetery is open, say for the school run, dogs cannot be brought into the cemetery and families with pupils going to King Athelstan or Hollyfield will have to perambulate via the main road. It was said at the time that this would happen and full access was only initiated by the council until planning permission was granted. We are deficient in access to open space and this application should reflect t his by reducing the density of the sch...

  Badgers mark their territories by pooing into a scrape in the soil. Sometimes their ‘poos' can be soft and other times quite 'well formed'. The photograph is taken from a series of latrines around a development site in Chessington. Badgers are not mentioned in the ecology reports for the proposed development. Badgers and development do not sit well together. A development can curtail the access a badger has to resources and safe trackways that may have been used for generations. Developments that do not consider Badgers, can push animals into roads, where they can cause accidents.  Over the years, I have written several posts regarding Badgers and development, mainly around Kingston Hill including the Golf Courses coombe-wood-lawn-tennis- . This included two sites owned/developed by Kingston Council, -although the Council were not the applicant for the licence to close the sett - failure to accomodate badger movement, appears to have pushed these animals into subop...