Save Somerset Community Space

somerset | community | news report Thursday June 25, 2009 12:05 by Anne Heritage - Save Skimmerton Lane campaign anneheritage at live dot com 01278431084

Somerset County Council wrecks beauty spot with PFI initiative

Somerset county council are insisting on building a new Haygrove school on a greenfield site on the buffer zone at the edge of Bridgwater. The proposed five hectare site has 600 year old trees and hedges on it and four hundred spieces of plants and animals including critically endangered and red list spieces. The save Skimmerton lane campaign and local residents have collected many letters of objection to building the school here. the building schools for the future team and the council will close this sensual curved road to the public, which is filled with honeysuckle and wild roses in the summer.a private finance initiative will be used to fund the build costing local people millions for the foreseeable future. Building here will let in other development scarring the local countryside forever. We want to keep out the developers and continue to enjoy our green spaces please help the save Skimmerton lane campaign in any way you can. Also see embedded films. This school project is nothing to do with education and everything to do with the imperatives of development in an area of great sensitivity. Our community is being destroyed and locals are angry. The councils next move will be to close the town swimming pool and say they will relocate it at Skimmerton lane thus they hope to quell dissent by bribery.