Act Now to Stop the Felling of Forest Farm Nature Reserve Trees
Cllr Huw Thomas (Leader of Cardiff Council), Eluned Morgan MS, Vaughan Gething MS, and Mark Drakeford MS
These trees and meadowland stand in the way of the main access road to the meadow site.
On the 7th of December 2021 Velindre will continue what we perceive to be enabling works on the Northern Meadows, with permission from Cardiff
Council to drill in the Forest Farm Nature Reserve.
From
January 2022, developers will be felling and trimming up to 95 trees, the majority of which are within Forest Farm boundaries, leading to an environmental disaster in Cardiff.
Join us and call on the Welsh Government and Cardiff Council to act now to stop this disaster!
Forest
farm is a much loved protected green open space which is owned and managed for the
people of Cardiff by Cardiff Council. We are calling on Cardiff Council
as the owners of the land, and the Welsh Government as the funders of
Velindre’s enabling works to step in and stop the destruction of our
trees and natural open spaces.
The
felling of these trees is the first stage of the construction of a new
Velindre Cancer Centre which is being built as a stand-alone facility on
the Northen Meadows.
Though the medical model is a separate concern, the medical risks provide context to the whole issue. The
majority of NHS staff have long argued for this new Cancer Centre to be
co-located with an acute hospital for patient safety reasons. More
information is available at
Co-Locate Velindre.
Over
the course of
four years of construction, hundreds and hundreds of trees will be felled, and the
twenty-three acre Northern Meadows, recently described by Iolo Williams
as one of the last wild green spaces in Cardiff, will be destroyed. Listen to what Iolo had to say about the
meadows here.
Sign our petition and ask the leaders of the Council and the Welsh Government to intervene and end this disaster project.
Join
us to resist the destruction. To find out more follow us on Facebook
and Twitter, and take a look at our website www.savethenorthernmeadows.wales
To:
Cllr Huw Thomas (Leader of Cardiff Council), Eluned Morgan MS, Vaughan Gething MS, and Mark Drakeford MS
From:
[Your Name]
Act Now to Stop the felling of trees on Forest Farm Nature Reserve.
Forest farm is a much loved Nature Reserve which is owned and managed for the people of Cardiff by Cardiff Council. We are calling on Cardiff Council as the owners of the land, and the Welsh Government as the funders of Velindre’s enabling works to step in and stop the destruction of our trees and natural open spaces.
You can stop this disaster project before it starts - act now!
The felling of these trees is the first stage of the construction of a new Velindre Cancer Centre which is being built as a stand-alone facility on the Northen Meadows.
The majority of NHS staff have long argued for this new Cancer Centre to be co-located with an acute hospital for patient safety reasons. More information is available at colocate Velindre -
https://colocate-velindre.co.uk/.
Over the course of construction, hundreds and hundreds of trees will be felled, and the twenty-three acre Northern Meadows, recently described by Iolo Williams as one of the last wild green spaces in Cardiff, will be destroyed.
Stop the felling of these trees in one of the only biodiverse spaces in Cardiff.
