Save the Middlewick Ranges🍃💚🍃
@SaveRanges
The largest remaining greenspace in Colchester is under threat of development, we need to protect it before it's too late.
Why nature must be made visible in decision making greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/07/24/why…
thank you @davidattenburro gazette-news.co.uk/news/25329854.…
letter from @bernardjenkin to @yourcolchester leader David King regarding the asset of community value status granted to Middlewick ranges
🌿 Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) means developers must leave nature better than they found it. Now @GOVUK wants to drop this rule for small sites- that could mean big losses for wildlife. 🦋 Small green spaces matter. 📣 Say no to weaker protections. wtru.st/4lqxG7w
Add your voice to the consultation make sure that nature has a strong voice when decisions about development are made. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/173184/ac…
Can an area being used as mitigation for a Special Protection Area in a Planning Application be CONFIDENTIAL. Therefore not have any scrutiny if it’s acceptable . Never known any mitigation area for a planning application being Confidential. @paulpowlesland @CommunityPlann1
@Evansthegrump if you are the MOD seems you can submit altered and false evidence to the LA and Planning Inspectorate with impunity! No investigation! How many other nationally important sites are they trying to destroy? Defend our biodiversity!
@DefenceHQ @mod_dio how predictable. Even your response to Caroline's complaint contained no answers to any of her questions. Utterly shameful cowardice and dereliction.
@DefenceHQ @mod_dio; Caroline White has called you out. As supposed defenders of the nation and its assets, are going to behave like cowards and not respond? You know full well that you've not played this with a straight bat and so do many others. Time to salvage some honour...?
Brilliant news!! One of the most important Acidic Grasslands for Fungi in England, + we will be announcing soon a NEW to UK species of WAXCAP!!! Currently the only site in UK where this species has been found, including eDNA work - this site has eDNA + fruiting fungi evidence !
🚨🚨Breaking News🚨🚨 @yourcolchester has accepted our nomination to have Middlewick listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). @TheGazette @BBCEssex @itvanglia @CommunityPlann1 @RosieP4 @CpreEssex @BrambleBotanist @CoalspoilFungi @bernardjenkin @RSPBEngland @EssexWildlife
EVERYONE wants this site saved! @mod_dio @DefenceHQ @UKLabour @GOVUK @SaveRanges
It’s official! ✅ 😊 Middlewick has been listed as an Asset of Community Value. 🙌 This designation provides extra protections: if the land is put up for sale, community groups must be given the opportunity to bid for it.
Fantastic news! Well done to @YourColchester on accepting the nomination by @SaveRanges for the designation of the #MiddlewickRanges as an Asset of Community Value.
🚨🚨Breaking News🚨🚨 @yourcolchester has accepted our nomination to have Middlewick listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). @TheGazette @BBCEssex @itvanglia @CommunityPlann1 @RosieP4 @CpreEssex @BrambleBotanist @CoalspoilFungi @bernardjenkin @RSPBEngland @EssexWildlife
It’s official! ✅ 😊 Middlewick has been listed as an Asset of Community Value. 🙌 This designation provides extra protections: if the land is put up for sale, community groups must be given the opportunity to bid for it.
🚨🚨Breaking News🚨🚨 @yourcolchester has accepted our nomination to have Middlewick listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). @TheGazette @BBCEssex @itvanglia @CommunityPlann1 @RosieP4 @CpreEssex @BrambleBotanist @CoalspoilFungi @bernardjenkin @RSPBEngland @EssexWildlife
And so we need nowhere near the 380,000 homes a year + new towns the government is intent on building . We only need 120,000 homes per annum. (And not one of those needs to be on greenfield. We have 3.5m alternatives homesforeveryone.org) From telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/2…
.... and they're off! Time to start your Waxcap surveys! Hygrocybe acutoconica var. acutoconica - Persistent Waxcap today on former coal Spoil habitat. By June, you can often encounter 7 or more species of Waxcap, including the big hitters like Hygrocybe spadicea - Date Waxcap.
Brilliant news that @WildJustice_org is taking the government to court over the Planning & Infrastructure Bill 👏 Via an email from them to supporters: “This week we lodged an application for judicial review at the High Court against this proposed legislation” Nature: