A group of around thirty protesters marched from Buck Lane to Shipley Town Hall yesterday morning to hand in a letter highlighting concerns about an area of land adjoining Buck Lane. The agricultural land is the proposed site of a multi-million pound business park, but the chairman of BRAiD (Baildon Residents against Inappropriate Development) Dr Steven Walker firmly believes that the land should remain as a green space for the benefit of the local community and the development should be located on one of the numerous brown field sites in the area.I have to admit that I have a personal interest, the land is not far from where I live and I regularly walk the footpath alongside the river, more often than not spotting some of the wildlife in the area, deer, kingfisher, dragonfly, or on the occasion of Saturday morning a heron standing in the river. I would hate to see this riverside green space covered in concrete.
I hope the BRAiD campaign wins. The last thing we need in the world is more buildings, and the last thing any area needs to attract interest is more concrete.
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