I received an interesting phone call yesterday from Cathyrn Ravenhall, one of a number of people opposed to the city council selling 3.2 acres of nature reserve in Cheylesmore (the Stonehouse Estate, Toll Bar End) to a developer to build 42 houses on.
With all the talk of having tens of thousands more houses in Coventry, it will be a choice between building on existing land (buying 3 houses, putting up a 4-storey building that can have 10 households) or building on greenbelt/nature reserve land.
Her group has already leafleted 120 homes and had a story in Saturday's Telegraph, and they're setting up a website.
Cllr Linda Reece (Con-Cheylesmore) lives on the estate, but she's already told them that there's nothing to be done, it's going ahead. Again, it shows the contradiction between the environmental rhetoric of David Cameron and how Tories can behave locally.
They have two months until the close of objections to the planning process, and they will have an information day at Baginton Fields school sometime soon.
I've got their January 2007 newsletter, and Cathryn's email, if people want to get in touch with them.
Stay tuned.
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