Timber!

Hands up all those who recall the Core One Strategy? Core One Strategy .... ? No? Expensively produced Master Plan (c.f. Great Leap Forward, Soviet era Five Year Plans, Cultural Revolution ...?). I seem to remember details outlined at length in this fanatasy planning document for safeguarding Newcastle's ecology ... Once again Newcastle City Council's preening P.R. machine is exposed for the high priced tosh it is.

The unvarnished saw dust truth is out there! Link here.

Meanwhile, Save Newcastle Wildlife have been doing much more than merely complaining. They managed to get broadcaster and all round good bloke Chris Packham to visit Havannah Nature Reserve on his 2018 national tour. Red Squirrel woodland habitat that is threatened by ever more 'development'. Link here.