New photos have been added showing how the brook behaves after rain.  These clearly show that the brook is not “disconnected from its flood plain” – one of the reasons given for carrying out this work. See After Rain Further … Continue reading →

Press Release re Parish Meeting 24/4/12

A letter has been sent to Mr Kevin Penfold of the Forestry Commission, repeating our request for the work at Latchmore to be suspended until a full EIA has been carried out and published, together with an annotated version of … Continue reading →

On 10 April we met with senior representatives of Natural England and the National Park Authority, and took them up the Brook as far as the Inclosure. An agreed report of this surprisingly constructive meeting is available here… We plan … Continue reading →

The Forestry Commission has prepared a Q&A document on the Latchmore project and sent us a copy. We are working on our response to this… It will be available in the next few days (but it is not at all … Continue reading →

Thanks to a couple of Friends and a light aircraft, we have a nice aerial photo of the upper Latchmore Brook, taken on 7 April (i.e. just before the heavy rain on Easter Monday). You can view this here. It … Continue reading →

The site has been tidied up and developed a bit over the weekend. In particular… It now has a new Help Us page. Visit the page and sign the on-line petition (just search for Latchmore at www.petitiononline.co.uk and sign…) We … Continue reading →

There is now a new page for Reports, and the Transport and Previous Restorations reports have been added to it. Mike Parslow’s letter has been posted on a new Forestry Commission page (under Correspondence). Michael’s photos have been posted in … Continue reading →