Forshaw Heath & Earlswood BoD in Warwickshire

Earlswood Wildlife Partnership Contact us at:  ewp2010@btinternet.com  or on 07528 595444         Newsletter 14 It has been quite a while since the last newsletter and the summer may now be over but we did have had a decent summer this year and it seems there were quite a few butterflies around particularly the whites and Small Tortoiseshell – hopefully this will show up in our Butterfly survey. Moth Night  – 13 th  July An excellent evening of moth trapping in Clowes Wood with 64 species recorded including Northern Spinach, Beautiful Snout and Sharp-angled Carpet which particularly pleased county recorder David Brown. (If you would like a complete list of the species caught, please let me know) Bats Our bat walks continue to be very popular with 50 people attending the latest one! Once again the bats did not let us down and the following were recorded:- Soprano Pipistrelle    ...

CLARIFICATION has been sought after comments from the Government’s planning chief appeared to cast doubt on a policy to build thousands of Redditch homes over the border in Bromsgrove. Councillors in Bromsgrove are set to vote on Wednesday (September 25) about whether to allow 3,400 homes to be sited in Foxlydiate but confusion has arisen after Nick Boles, Minister for Planning and Development, appeared to suggest councils did not need to take other authorities’ houses if they were planned for green belt areas. If confirmed, it could affect both Bromsgrove’s Local Plan - which sets out where housing should be built in 2030 and has been influenced by their duty to accommodate neighbouring Redditch’s housing need - and the plan for Redditch, which relies on cross-border growth to meet the forecast need for 6,400 extra homes in the next two decades and has already been given the green light by borough councillors. Malcolm Glainger, chair of the Bentley Area Action Group, called for...