Doncaster Planning Committee will be considering an application on the 24th November for a huge warehouse development immediately to the South of Potteric Carr Nature Reserve. The warehouses proposed will cover 171 hectares or about 170 full size football pitches, and be over a mile long and half a mile wide. The development will be in the Green Belt next to Rossington colliery. The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has objected to the development on a number of grounds but remain very concerned that the council will approve the application.
The feelings of local residents are extremely important to the Doncaster Council and the Trust would be most grateful if you could record your objection to the development by sending a letter to the Planning Department. Outlined below are the key issues and a suggestion of the letter you may choose write. It would be wonderful if you were also able to support our objection in person by attending the Planning Committee Meeting on Tuesday 24th November at 2:00pm in the Council Chamber, Mansion House.
If you would like to find out more about the application, all plans for the development are available online on the Doncaster Planning Website. the reference number is 09/00190/OUTA.
Your letter - Please make it personal!
Potteric Carr is the Trust’s flagship nature reserve made up of habitats of exceptional quality – a mosaic of wetlands (open water bodies, reedbeds and wet woodland), woodland and meadow – supporting a range of extremely rare species, e.g. bittern, large flocks of golden plover and lapwing and black necked grebe and avocet.
Potteric is visited by an increasing number of visitors every year and provides wonderful educational opportunities for local school children.
The inland port is proposed to be on agricultural Green Belt land and will remove valuable feeding areas for farmland birds (including lapwing and golden plover), bats and other wildlife.
Potteric Carr will be cut off from adjoining countryside increasing its isolation and reducing its value for wildlife currently using the site.
The development will therefore reduce biodiversity and is contrary to Government policies as well as Local Council policies.
The enhancement of the value of Potteric Carr for wildlife and people will be essential so that the reserve is more robust in the face of increasing isolation from the surrounding countryside.
Effective habitat corridors/linkage are essential in perpetuity to ensure that wildlife is able to freely move to and from this nationally important site.
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