{"id":8921,"date":"2014-11-12T16:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2014-11-13T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:10:32","slug":"ancient-woodland-threat-in-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"Ancient woodland threat in Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A major conservation organisation has branded proposals to turn part of a wood mentioned in the Domesday Book into a quarry as the largest threat yet to a single site of ancient woodland<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 50 hectares of ancient woodland near Tamworth, Staffordshire, has been proposed as a new site option for inclusion in the county\u2019s Minerals Local Plan as the preferred site to extract nine million tonnes of sand and gravel over a 13-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation to allocate Hopwas Wood for future mineral extraction was made to the county council by LaFarge Tarmac, part-owners of the wood, and the council is now consulting on the new site options.<\/p>\n<p>The Woodland Trust said the plans \u2018represented the largest threat to a single ancient woodland site in England that the charity has seen in its 42-year history\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\u00a0https:\/\/www.woodlandtrust.org.uk\/news\/press-releases\/hopwas-wood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodland Trust\u00a0press release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2014\/october14\/301014\/301014_6\" target=\"_blank\">Search Planning Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlandtrust.org.uk\/news\/press-releases\/hopwas-wood-saved\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodland Trust update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major conservation organisation has branded proposals to turn part of a wood mentioned in the Domesday Book into a quarry as the largest threat yet to a single site of ancient woodland. Some 50 hectares of ancient woodland near &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8940,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/8940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}