Could a village Toad Patrol scupper Gipsy families’ bid to stay on a site near Lydia Park, Stovolds Hill?
And was the arrival of the Great Crested Newt and its fellow Toads just too much for Government Inspector Richard Clegg? Because having adjourned the Inquiry last October after just one day, it has been adjourned again! Having lasted a little longer!
At his last appearance four days ago, Inspector Clegg heard the dramatic revelation that an enormous number of amphibians, including Triturus cristatus, regularly roam the streets of Dunsfold.
The drama was too much for our seasoned bloggers here at the WW, and the same may have been true for poor Cleggy. There is only so much a man or our bloggers can take!
Click on the link below to hear just a snippet of Cllr Waterson’s Toad Patrol Report from the Dunsfold Amphibian Rescue Team. But have a cup of tea and a lie down first.
The Toad Patrol’s theme tune, Standing Together
But great crested news and frogs are not the only ones Dunsfold that are doing the rounds according to the Dunsfold Amphibian Rescue Group’s Toad Patrol. In fact the marine life that inhibit Dunsfold outweigh the gipsies 100 to 1.
Cllr Nigel Waterson told the Inspector that according to the Toad Patrols calculations there are…
“thousands of them.”
Yes, folks thousands and that is good enough reason to ensure that two miles down the Dunsfold Road at Stovolds Hill in the Parish of Bramley. No more gipsy caravans must be allowed. Despite Waverley Planners giving consent for dozens of them in the past year or so.
Did planning officers go out in all weathers, which according to Cllr Waterson the Toad Patrol does regularly, regardless of the weather conditions to determine if Dunsfold’s amphibian wildlife is under threat.
Will they do the same at Hill Tops, New Acres, Lydia Park or Yellowstone Park the Waverley Web wonders?
To be fair, others have put forward numerous other reasons for refusing the appeals.
The locals maintain if the Inspector agrees the Docherty families can stay then the Amphibians of Dunsfold are seriously under threat.
Or perhaps it means the amphibians of Stovolds Hill are under threat. But until the Inquiry reconvenes we will never know. And the Docherty families will have lived there longer than four years!
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