PLEASE HELP SAVE NORTH KELVIN MEADOW & ORCHIDS FROM DESTRUCTION!

[Growild]

Dear SRGC friends, I am asking you all for urgent help with a campaign that is very dear to my heart. North Kelvin Meadow is a magical and much-loved, multi-use, green community space that Glasgow City Council wants to sell to a developer to destroy and build 90 dwellings on. North Kelvin Meadow has community allotments and an orchard, and is full of a vast array of wildlife including large colonies of wild orchids and 500 plus trees. They also host regular events and outdoor learning for children in the woodland area.

If you care for and want to encourage wildlife, adult wellbeing and creative learning through giving children the freedom to play outdoors, please help the campaign and oppose this ludicrous planning application. It will only take two minutes of your time to complete and anybody living anywhere can object (not just people from the Glasgow area). Please show the council that their decision to sell to a developer in an already over populated area is not only shortsighted partially but actually contradicts every one of their policies on green spaces. The running of this land does not cost Glasgow City Council a penny as it is run and maintained entirely by volunteers.

I would like to thank all of you who have already signed petitions in the past but signatures ‘do not count now’ and we need as many objections as possible. Thank you in advance and please share this post with other gardening and wildlife groups, friends and family!

Here is how to object: all you have to do is send an email containing the reasons for your objection to planning.representations@drs.glasgow.gov.uk by the 29th of June and address it to the Planning committee. Include ‘Planning Ref number 12/00924/DC’ in the subject line of your email and the body of the email.

Insert your name at the bottom and send.

The campaigners have also composed a standard letter that you can simply cut and paste - it’s here: www.northkelvinmeadow.com. The website will also give you more information on all the good work done at North Kelvin Meadow.

Please also see our nursery facebook page for photo's of the orchids and meadow events 

Lisa

[Chris Johnson]

Done.

Good luck with the planning opposition.

[Maggi Young]

We in Aberdeen are all too aware of crazy planning decisions, Lisa   

For myself, I too am  happy to support  this campaign.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Me too, although a long way from Glasgow!

[Growild]

Thank you Chris, Maggie and John every objection does really count  and it really does not matter where you live to object.

The original planning application was submitted over three years ago and the campaign has been battling it every step of the way since and will not give in. I should say that the council took some of its members to court a few years since for installing bat boxes on the meadow ... It makes me so angry every time I visit that all this could be destroyed for greed at the cost of peoples well being. I have never seen such happy children at the meadow, surely encouraging this sort of environment will produce much more well rounded adults who will respect nature. I did a survey on behalf of the meadow a few years ago and the developers 'independent' eco survey still makes no mention of the orchid colonies I found there ...