The fight for Oaken Wood needs you! Please contact your county councillor

CPRE Kent are asking for your help in the fight to save the ancient woodland of Oaken Wood.

After the county council’s decision to allocate Oaken Wood in the Kent Minerals Site Plan – potentially destroying 41 hectares of ancient woodland – we took legal advice and served it with a Pre-Action Protocol letter.

We are now pushing ahead with further legal proceedings, and have filed a claim for judicial review and applied for an injunction to stop the county council submitting the plan, however we would far rather resolve this through councillors than through the courts.

Bringing the decision back to Full Council would show that the public have been listened to and could avoid further legal costs and uncertainty.

It would demonstrate the widespread strength of feeling if members of the public – you – could contact as many county councillors as possible asking for the decision on the Kent Minerals Site Plan to be returned to Full Council.

For an idea of what you might like to write, click here

This is a new letter, penned following the Reg 19 extension deadline announced last week.  If you saw a previous request and letter template, please note the different letter here.

Thank you.  It would be useful to know who does contact their councillor about this matter so please update us by emailing info@cprekent.org.uk Thank you

To find your county councillor, click here

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