Under the guidance of PhD geography student Shaun Maskrey and the Environment Agency’s John Woods, Hebden Bridge residents and organisations last week attended the first of five workshops, where together we’ll create a model for reducing flood risks in the Hebden Water catchment.| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Upper Calderdale Wildlife Group says the situation with Natural England is hopeless following Defra’s recent rejection of Natural England’s recommendation to set legally binding, strong targets for improving conditions at Sites of Special Scientific Interest. The quango’s ability to protect … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Calderdale Trades Union Council is holding a public meeting at 2pm on 10th April at Hebden Bridge Trades Club, with “Deep Deception” co-author Helen Steel and Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) core participant Mark Metcalf, a National Union of Journalists delegate to Calderdale Trades … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Report on Calderdale Council Climate Change Working Party’s discussion of Defra’s legislation on the licensing of burning on peatlands in England on Wed 3rd March Thanks to Hazel Draper’s question to the Calderdale Council Climate Change Working Group meeting on … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Ban the Burn is underwhelmed by Defra’s 29th January press release about proposed legislation to prevent the burning of heather and other vegetation on protected blanket bog habitats. The UK government has been forced to legislate after it was clobbered … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
In October 2020, Ban the Burn made a formal complaint to Natural England about their failure to investigate 8 examples of Walshaw Moor Estate’s burning of sphagnum and apparently unconsented infrastructure construction that we’d first reported in June 2019, and … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
The A6033 from Hebden Bridge to Oxenhope will be open on Bank Holiday Monday (31 August). It will also continue to be open at weekends. But road closures as part of work to improve its safety will continue throughout September … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
A Judge has ordered a full hearing into a government decision to allow the sale of the troubled fracking company Third Energy – the company that is licensed to frack in Ryedale, North Yorkshire. At stake is whether the government … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Before we all go rarara about the Conservative government’s new scheme to boost tree planting, let’s just note that it’s based on the financialisation of the ecosystem – ie turning the natural environment into another set of markets for the … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Over the weekend, Calder Valley again suffered horrendous flooding – the fourth in eight years. When Ban the Burn heard that Theresa Villiers, the Defra Sec of State, would be doing a walkabout in central Mytholmroyd on Wednesday between 9am … Continue reading →| Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
Natural England is to investigate a grouse-shooting estate’s recent burning of sphagnum moss and apparently unconsented construction of infrastructure on the highly-protected Natura 2000 site of Walshaw Moor, above Hebden Bridge. | Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
