The Chilterns Conservation Board (CCB) is alarmed by reports that a 6m wide and 5m deep sinkhole appeared above the route of HS2 tunnelling very near to Shardeloes Lake, near Little Missenden, on Saturday the 13th of May.
We’re pleased that Andy Brock-Doyle has started as our new Head of Operations. Andy will be supporting us to be as effective as we can in all of our work and has a wealth of experience supporting environmental organisations. Read his blog below.
Today (13 March), in their first major campaign together, the National Trust, the RSPB and WWF are urging everyone in society to come together to halt the destruction of UK nature and take urgent action to Save Our Wild Isles.
We’re delighted to be supporting the Earth Trust to work with Oxfordshire employment charity ‘Aspire’, on a project to bring those at risk of homelessness and disadvantage closer to nature. Recent data shows that if a person is unemployed, living in an area of high deprivation or has a low income, they are significantly less...
In the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, almost 200 communities and 70,000 properties are at risk of groundwater flooding. Due to groundwater flooding typically affecting small rural communities, it can be hard for people to support one another. It also means that groundwater flooding often fails to qualify for flood management funding.
LUC are delighted to have been commissioned by Natural England to review the boundary of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), as part of Natural England’s Landscape Designation Programme. This project will assess natural beauty and the desirability of extension of the AONB around the whole boundary.
