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Why all this secrecy?
• EXPERTS believe that the green land at the National Children’s Home (NCH) site may well be the last remaining area of original pasture land surviving from the days when Highbury Hill was used for grazing cattle (Campaigners in fight to save ‘secret garden’, October 23).
As such, it may turn out to be the last surviving unimproved grassland meadow in the whole of north London and to be home to a host of rare plant species.
A developer is consulting on proposals to build 150 homes on that land.
Islington Green Party is calling on the council to make public an ecological survey of the site provided to it by the developer, but the developer is blocking access to the survey, saying it “prefers the report to remain confidential at this time”.
The council, in turn, is refusing to release the developer’s survey and, moreover, is refusing to carry out any independent ecological survey of its own.
Once the grassland is built on, it will be lost forever. The public must be given full information now about this hidden gem – before it is too late.
Emma Dixon
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Your comments:
MY heart breaks every time I look out of my back window. The new development is going to destroy so many habitats that exist and have done for years. Islington Borough has the least green spaces in all of the London boroughs please can we preserve our wonderful garden instead of allowing money to kill peoples well being and line the pockets of the developers.
Thank you,
M. Meehan
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