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Editorial Feature Mother’s Day
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issue no. 949 Thursday 23rd March 2017
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OVER 300 people gathered outside Sheffield Town Hall on Saturday March 18 to demonstrate their objection to the proposal to build a major motorway service area on Smithy Wood. Smithy Wood is a Local Wildlife Site and ancient woodland in Sheffield’s green belt and Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust organised a peaceful protest. For the past four years Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust has been campaigning alongside local residents and other environmental groups to save Smithy Wood from a highly controversial proposal to build an 80-bed hotel, car park and fast food court. The proposal was set to be considered by Sheffield City Council’s planning committee on March 28, but has been delayed following news of another proposal to build a motorway service area at Junction 33 on the M1, a site designated for this type of development. Speakers at today’s event included Liz Ballard, CEO of Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust; Oliver Newham, Senior Campaigner at the Woodland Trust; Jean Howe, Chair of Cowley Residents Action Group; Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge; and local councillor Steve Wilson. It was an occasion for all with face painting for children and music from Sheffield Samba Band along with local singer Richard Kedward who performed Joni Mitchell’s 1970s hit Big Yellow Taxi. Liz Ballard, CEO of Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust, said: “In a few weeks’ time a beautiful carpet of native bluebells will start to reappear in Smithy Wood. Just today I saw two buzzards circling over the woodland - it really does support so much wildlife. “Irreplaceable ancient woodland and local wildlife should be protected and not destroyed. Smithy Wood is not the place to build a motorway service area. The new proposal at Junction 33 by Applegreen, another motorway service area developer, clearly illustrates that MSA Extra’s argument that Smithy Wood is the...
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