After receiving information regarding the proposed planning of 250 new builds including the fields at the back of Oak Meadow, I would first of all like to point out that there are a large number of bats that rely on the fields for food.

Bats can eat up to three thousand insects each per night more if they are rearing their young, not to mention the owls, kestrels, buzzards, dormice, butterflies and many other species. These fields are a wealth of wildlife.

Stripping the hedge­rows and wild flowers  would have a devastating effect on the biodiversity this land provides. Biodiversity is a fundamental part of the earth's life support system not just for human habitants but also wild inhabitants.

– Jennifer Burton, Lydney.