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Tolvaddon Proposed Development - Red River Rescuers Response
Photo taken by Steve Jones
Anyone who has visited our fantastic wetland at Great Wheal Seton during the last two years will be aware of the earth works being carried out on the opposite bank of the Red River. The Red River forms the boundary of the Red River Valley Local Nature Reserve at this point. To the south west is the reserve, to the northeast a patch of land that was for decades left largely undisturbed. What most of you won’t know is that some of that patch of land, like the neighbouring LNR, is a County Wildlife Site!
County Wildlife Sites were identified during the 1980s & 1990s on the basis of their high nature conservation value and have a degree of protection through national and local planning policy, meaning that they have to be taken into account in any planning proposals.
The earthworks on the patch of land opposite the LNR have been alarming, with the overwhelming destruction of habitat right up to the very edge of the river, which in the latter stages has included the partial infill of the wetland component of the County Wildlife Site. Like our reserve, this wetland has played host to the Nationally Scarce & declining Small Red Damselfly – Ceriagrion tenellum.
Over the two-year period that this has been going on, the Red River Rescuers have raised their concerns with Cornwall Council and the Environment Agency on a number of occasions, both verbally & in writing, and were told at one stage in 2023 that the landowner was dealing with a Japanese Knotweed problem. However, as far as we know, importing soil & rubble and moving it around a site, is not a recognised method of dealing with Japanese Knotweed.
County Wildlife Sites were identified during the 1980s & 1990s on the basis of their high nature conservation value and have a degree of protection through national and local planning policy, meaning that they have to be taken into account in any planning proposals.
The earthworks on the patch of land opposite the LNR have been alarming, with the overwhelming destruction of habitat right up to the very edge of the river, which in the latter stages has included the partial infill of the wetland component of the County Wildlife Site. Like our reserve, this wetland has played host to the Nationally Scarce & declining Small Red Damselfly – Ceriagrion tenellum.
Over the two-year period that this has been going on, the Red River Rescuers have raised their concerns with Cornwall Council and the Environment Agency on a number of occasions, both verbally & in writing, and were told at one stage in 2023 that the landowner was dealing with a Japanese Knotweed problem. However, as far as we know, importing soil & rubble and moving it around a site, is not a recognised method of dealing with Japanese Knotweed.
