We have decided to research the Lodge Hill/Nightingale story as we want to focus our live piece on the opinions to build houses on a designated place for nightingale birds.
Lodge Hill is a site in Medway which is home to one of the most iconic birds in the UK. The birds come to Lodge Hill every spring during breeding season. However, land securities are planning to build on the site with unto 5,000 news houses and a school, health services and more. Although this is good for medway, it's not good for the RSPB Nightingale birds. However the idea to build on Lodge Hill is in conflict with the national planning policy to protect SSSIs. However, land securities still submitted their planning application in February 2014. Medway Council decided to approve the planning application which has caused a LOT of controversy with the people of medway, petitioners and chancellors whom was told that the council wouldn't allow it.
The site is meant to be a protected area but if it's being built on, who knows what could happen to other so called 'protected' areas? Eric Pickles has the last say on whether the site will be able to become built on, and there is a website where it allows the public to send him an email with reasons it shouldn't be built on. This is helpful for the public as it's hard to speak to people of high importance directly - so they have a chance to speak through emailing him.
As the nightingales are designated in Lodge Hill, the 86 pairs of nightingales will have no where else to breed and they are already becoming extinct.
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