One step closer to a silent spring

~ Cardiff Civic Society

This letter was published in the South Wales Echo on 26 March 2019

March 20 was the first day of spring. It was a chance for people to consider the valuable role nature plays in our lives, including bird song in our city trees.

Unfortunately, councillors on the city’s planning committee chose this date to approve the destructions of beautiful mature trees on the Suffolk House site in Canton, Cardiff, even though they are in a conservation area. Thanks to the votes of Councillors Iona Gordon, Frank Jackson, Keith Jones and Chris Lay we are one step closer to a “silent spring” where bird song can no longer he heard in our nation’s capital.

It seems that the common good is not a concern for some councillors. They prefer to blindly follow the advice of clever-clever planning officials and the demands of property speculators.

They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

Rob Cooper, Joy Lock, Elen Miles, Ceri Williams

Canton

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/south-wales-echo-letters-tuesday-16027239

Published by Cardiff Civic Society

Cardiff Civic Society is a membership organisation and charity that aims to conserve, sustain and develop the natural and built environment of the city for the benefit of current and future generations. It is a charity whose objects are improving the built and natural environment of the city. Its role is to provide information and support, research and debate and, where necessary, to lobby local authorities, government and private interests to ensure the achievement of its aims. It runs conferences, workshops, education events and acts as a catalyst for other organisations with similar objectives to exchange ideas and develop skills. It also runs a programme of informal and social events for its members in buildings and places that demonstrate concern for the built environment.

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