Just a reminder to have your say about the Brearley Fields and also Milner Royd/Copley Valley sites - both online questionnaires need to be sent back by
31st December 2017
Brearley Fields
Calderdale Council are
undertaking a consultation as to what to do with Brearley Fields site, plans
which could include a wetland habitat with reeds.
Click the link below to have your
say and contribute to its future.
Milner Royd/Copley Valley
A major funding bid is in progress which includes
Copley Valley Green Corridor, which runs along the south bank of the River
Calder, and Milner Royd Nature Reserve. If successful, there will be
funds to develop the biodiversity and recreational potential of these sites.
Some of my proposals that I put in were that at Milner Royd/Copley there should be an amphibian tunnel under the road where the toads and newts get run over or fall into the gullies (drains.)
ReplyDeleteAt Brearley fields I have proposed that the river Calder should be made to meander over the flood plain. Apparently it used to do this here before the river was straightened and the sports pitches made, though I do't remember it. Does anyone?
I have been told that both these ideas are being considered.
I forgot to mention that wandering White Storks have been known to come down and feed at Brearley and Luddendenfoot, so a platform on a strong pole (they use old cart wheels as platforms in rural Spain) might encourage a nesting pair. In Pinto, a small place 20 mins up the train line from central Madrid, the whole town has nests on the tall buildings. The church has three! A few years ago a pair started building on a pylon at Horbury, just this side of Wakefield, but something put them off.