I'm delighted to find this embryonic group and unite with other
owners of this little field and be able to celebrate our collective
success in preserving this precious habitat. My enthusiasm for rural
preservation has followed the path of my father who was chairman of
the Parish Council for Horseheath in SE Cambridgeshire, as I am now a
Parish Councillor for Warfield in Berkshire.

Unfortunately, Warfield is directly under threat - of 2500 new
houses! It's for the right reason - rare ground nesting birds in the
Surrey and Berkshire heathlands are indeed worthy of EU protection,
however the loss of Berkshire County Council coupled with the SE
Regional Assembly doing 30,000 foot macro-level planning has given
Bracknell Forest Borough Council few options in placing the 10,000
homes that are to be built between now and 2026.

Whether an Alice's Meadow type campaign could help save any of the
area under threat is unclear - unfortunately I think that landowners
and property developers seeing huge profits have already got the area
pretty well sewn up - however it's got to be worth investigation.
Our 1000 year old rural parish has already been damaged severely in
1949 and again in 1988 due to the creation and northward expansion of
Bracknell New Town, however it's time to call a halt to development
now, before the shifting of the IT industry to the Far East makes it
a ghost town in 20 years time!

Every little bit of support counts and of course I would appreciate
yours.

Embryonic campaign:
http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/larkshill/keepwestendgreen.html
and petition: http://petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2654

Best regards, Roderick Parks