SAVE WOOLLEY VALLEY

High Profile Support

NE Somerset MP

Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con)
‘It is important that planning laws are applied effectively. There must not be one rule for us and another for aggressive developers. The scar on the landscape is a disgrace and I am urging the Council to act’.

Peter Gabriel:

"This is one of the most beautiful valleys in the west of England, and the development is making a mockery of our planning and environmental policies. I can only think that BANES don't have the resources to fight it, as clearly it would be an issue that you would imagine would be high on their agenda".

Jonathan Dimbleby, who owned the land from 1993 until 2005 stated:

“I am particularly dismayed by the way in which the field nearest the village has been excavated and partially filled with what looks like hundreds of tons of spoil. This was the most ecologically valuable field on the holding with natural streams and it was farmed with great care to avoid poaching the land and to maintain its particular character.”

NE Somerset Parties

Dan Norris (Lab)
"This countryside is irreplaceable. The Council should act to enforce this. I will do everything in my power to make this happen. I am 100% behind you"

Gail Coleshill (Lib Dem)
“I have no hesitation in condemning the actions of Golden Valley Paddocks. Apart from the contraventions of the planning rules I was shocked by the spoiling of the landscape.”

National Trust support campaign to preserve Woolley Valley scenery

Controversial developments at Woolley Valley near Bath have spoiled the views from nearby Solsbury Hill and provoked anger from the National Trust.
The popular viewpoint on Little Solsbury Hill is cared for by the National Trust and offers views across the valley where work includes creating new tracks and moving in chicken sheds have been going ahead despite five retrospective planning applications being refused by Bath and North East Somerset Council.

"It is clear that the landscape is being destroyed with major earthworks and a number of enormous supposedly mobile chicken houses," Wendy Stott, the National Trust's Bath property manager.

"Little Solsbury Hill is an Iron Age Hill Fort which offers spectacular views over Bath. It is a popular walk with fine views out over largely unspoilt countryside. The developments, which can be clearly seen from the hill, are not only spoiling that view from our land, but damaging a fragile environment and part of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty."

The National Trust has written to the Bath and North East Somerset Council to raise their objections to works on the land, including the placing of large chicken sheds and earth works.

"This is an important valley and the National Trust urges the council to take speedy and effective action to prevent unauthorised developments. We are more than willing lend our support to the local campaigners and will always seek to protect such important countryside areas around Bath. Places such as Solsbury Hill are there to be enjoyed by everybody and, as part of the Bath community, the National Trust will take an active part in protecting the places we all enjoy," added Wendy.

The National Trust is supporting the campaign being run by Save Woolley Valley Action Group. The campaign also has the backing of musician Peter Gabriel, who was inspired by Solsbury Hill to write his 1977 hit of the same name and who lived in the area at the time.

Jeremy Guscott
"Its ridiculous"

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