I am not an arch critic of Northern as your columns claim , but against throwing taxpayers funds on warehouse  economics, which destroys the finest and most beautiful asset the area possesses.

The site is over a vast lagoon of water, which other counties and countries would envy and utilise.

The  area is blessed and officially recognised as possessing the greatest concentration of wildlife including rare bats, crested newts, colonies of butterflies and moths and birds, and insects.

Natural England had surveyed the bats within Northern buildings, which held the rarest lesser horseshoe  bats along with other species and including the swallows which always return to their previous habitats.

Recently Natural England wrote of finding  hazel dormice within their habitat boxes and one presumes the police ecologist was aware of these little creatures.

These boxes referred  to were located in the Miners' Memorial woodland which were  discreetly photographed before these despicable corporates  vandalised  their habitat.

God only knows where these vulnerable and delicate little creatures  are now following the wilful moving of fences and cutting  off the Miners' Memorial pathway.

Yes, the Homes and Community Agency spokesperson has claimed they take their environmental obligations extremely seriously and they do work closely with Natural England and an on-site ecologist. However their destructive and facilitating actions  last Thursday by police, Homes and Community Agency and Natural England -  by revoking a hand demolition  licence and replacing  it with a licence to use heavy machinery – led to the obliteration of wildlife habitats on a vast scale and our Forest culture and our heritage.

The police were well aware of the situation and instead of checking complaints against young environmentalist on site, they should have arrested those corporate van­dals destroying protected  wildlife in freez­ing  temperatures.

– Andrew Gardiner, Ruardean.