Blowick Moss: RIP our old Southport countryside

For over a decade I have campaigned, mainly alone, for more consideration to be granted towards avoiding countryside destruction in Southport. 

Naturally, my care for the green spaces made me plenty of enemies in the form of politicians and other pro-development types.

The Kew area (and more recently Blowick Moss) has seen much green area loss.  I popped up today to have a look at what was once green fields with horses and birds. This is what I found...

I covered the loss of countryside issue with several detailed articles, including this one...

https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2012/04/rape-of-southports-old-countryside.html



Above: how it was just a few years ago.

Above: Boundary Brook that edges on the new Blowick Moss housing developments. Flooding is a very real possibility (if the brook bursts its banks) and this is proven by the latest  Environment Agency flooding map.

https://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/confirm-location?easting=333842&northing=417115&placeOrPostcode=southport

These are just a few reasons that I highlighted years ago, about why the development was highly questionable.

If the Environment Agency were to stop pumping and remove defences, or if they were to ‘fail’, the land would unquestionably flood once again and devastate the housing infrastructure. This is why the EA is required to indicate this risk on their flood mapping system.


Ecologically obscene
The risk to legally-protected species like the water vole, which is resident in this area
Potentially a risk to human health or even life
Illogical as many large in-town plots are empty, abandoned and unused
Based on fat cat profiteering
Prone to serious flooding risk
A potential traffic gridlock disaster
An overcrowding problem that can only get worse
lack of local services, like schools and children's hospital, etc

We're not the only species trying to survive on this planet.

Sadly, our poor old countryside means very little to many people today in our greed-ridden society.

Fat - cat profit is always placed before the vanishing green landscape.

See also

Old Kew Woods massacre

https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2018/03/tree-butchers-arrive-at-kew-woods-in.html



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