Dear Steve Martin,
I’ve just listened to the news piece on the funding for SZC. I am insulted beyond belief by Julia Pyke’s words ‘low grade woodland.’ SZC has not only felled the 100 year-old pines in Goose Hill and the bat-harbouring trees in Coronation Wood but also beautiful oak trees all around Theberton, Leiston, Snape, some 300 years old, one with a Preservation Order on it. SZC has displaced thousands of species including rare birds and badgers and deer and the nightingales of which there are only 5,500 breeding pairs left in the UK (in East Anglia and Kent) are under threat. The SSSI wetlands has gone forever with its world wide rare species of dragonflies and plants.
SZC’s language about Kenton Hills used to be very different. I have leaflets from my mother’s dog-walking days.
I’m not sure UK citizens and holiday-makers and tree lovers are aware of this decimation. The story is not getting out of Suffolk. Acres of farmland growing crops to feed the nation have been cut down before harvesting and rows of hedgerows with nesting birds are being cut down unnecessarily. One farm has been compulsorily purchased to become a ‘nature reserve’!
I’m happy to take a reporter for a walk along the route of the Theberton Bypass while it is still green and walkable. Soon our country lanes and footpaths will be ‘end-stopped’ with concrete and traffic.
Best wishes,
Vanessa Rasion
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