As part of the Biodiversity around Town Scheme (BATS) work is commencing tomorrow to improve the breeding conditions for the small colony of Great Crested Newts that live in the pond at the end of Chilton Grove. ( pictured above). The work will involve cutting down trees and also deepening the water.
A spokesman for BATS says that they regret having to cut down the trees, but they are doing their best to grow a lot more to plant elsewhere.
The pool is close to the site of the proposed Chilton Woods development. It is one of BATS’s aims to provide some of the trees that will populate the wooded edge that has been envisaged at the northern end of the development. I think that all who live near the site continue to hope that the development’s name Chilton Woods will reflect the wooded nature of the development, and not simply be a ‘developer’s puff’ designed to stifle opposition and lure the unsuspecting house purchaser.
In this connection, it seems that the developers, Ashwell, are gearing up to put in for planning permission for the first stage of the development shortly. A consultation on the first fourteen houses to be built adjacent to
