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save pinsey wood from paintballers

freecycler | 09.11.2007 09:08 | Ecology | London | Oxford

save pinsey wood from paintballers ending public access and threatening ecology

Hi, everyone. I was walking my dog in Pinsley wood yesterday - we
went there last Sunday - and I met someone who told me that the whole
wood was going to be fenced off, so that the public can't go there
any more. They plan to use the wood for paint balling and team
building events. The wood is one of the last woods in Oxfordshire
that the public can walk through!!! We can't walk in the Wywood or
Wytham wood any more. Pinsley wood is full of wild life like deer and
birds like the red kite. It is wonderful in the spring because it is
full of bluebells and wild orchids and lots of other wild flowers.
These will all go if it is used for other events. The residents of
Long Hanborough are up in arms about it and there is a big meeting at
the Methodist hall opposite Oliver's Garage on the main road next
Tuesday evening at 7.15. I am going because there will be local
councillors speaking and petitions to sign to stop it happening. They
intend to build accomodation next to the wood for people to stay in.
There will be a road up to the wood across the fields where we walked
and all the lovely walks will vanish because we won't be able to go
there. Please come to the meeting if you are free that evening.
I don't know of any other wood around Witney where you can actually
walk as freely as we did last Sunday.!!!Please come and support the
meeting and sign the petition. See you there, hopefully

freecycler

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There's one in knowsley

10.11.2007 14:07

apaintball by day but the owner lets his mates rip round it in landrovers of a night.

meme


solution

11.11.2007 19:52

I think it should be turned into a supermarket instead

blob


Save Pinsley Wood!

13.11.2007 15:56

This wood is of vital importance to the people of Hanborough and the surrounding area. It is a haven of beauty, peace and tranquility which is of vital importance to our physical, spiritual and mental wellbeing.

Please help to keep it free for all to enjoy - it would be an act of desectation to built yet another adventure plaground on such an ancient site. I walked round with my dog yesterday and a buzzard swooped down from a tree and flew ahead of me; it did this five times in all and I broke down and sobbed at the thought of the wonderful birds and animals being sacrificed for a money making scheme.

WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!

Ali
mail e-mail: undine2006@yahoo.co.uk


Support for the woods....

19.11.2007 16:29

I agree with you, and with Ali's comments. Too many woodlands and landscapes, nationally but also locally, are being lost. With global warming on its way, it is more essential than ever that these habitats are protected.

AS for the supermarket comment.... maybe they should destroy a few of those, so that you have to go outside and face reality from time to time.

Jangles


There must be something we can do....

03.01.2008 20:03

Is the land not recorded as ancient woodland? Surely that status would provide some protection...

Is there no way we can find some species of animal that is by law protected? For example, it is illegal to destroy a bat roost...something with protection such as that would surely provide cover for the wood aswell?

It is a beautiful wood, the problem comes in the form Blenheim, because unfortunately, they own it!

A supermarket? Is that a stab at humour? We can see what a shallow and single minded life you lead! I pity you.

Lizzie


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