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Volume 43, Issue 5
VERWOOD RINGWOOD FORDINGBRIDGE WEST MOORS WIMBORNE FERNDOWN ASHLEY HEATH ST IVES, ALDERHOLT
Opposition builds to Snails Lane development at Blashford
TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is backing a campaign to oppose the building of 143 houses – including 50 per cent affordable housing and public © Ted Sansom open space - on the Blashford Wet Meadows in Snails Lane, just north of Ringwood. In a video on Facebook the wildlife expert said he was passionate about the New Forest. “This area is an important wildlife colony and is not the sort of place for new houses,” he said, adding that the site is on the flood plain and that at times it was a metre deep in water. Continued on page 22...
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