Today, 30th September 2025, work started  at the Tufa Field in preparation for building works to start next year.

Workers are installing ( for the 3rd time) a reptile fence to allow large reptiles and amphibians within the curtelage to be relocated outside of the fence. This includes the considerable population of Slow Worms as well as lizards and frogs and toads found in abundance on the site.

 

The loss of a nationally important area of rough pasture in a designated Site of Nature Conservation Interest, one of the very few in the county, is a tragedy which may yet come to haunt future generations.  This lost feeding ground for Bats, Owls, Buzzards and semi-urbanised mammals, may well contribute to the total loss of these species to the area.

 

It is beyond credibility, that future building works can be undertaken without devastating this unique area, and the much-heralded but highly contentious promise to increase biodiversity by 20% using widely discredited methodologies seems highly unlikely to occur.