Link to the past
EXPERTS believe that the grassland at the National Children's Home site in Highbury Park may well be the last remaining area of original pasture land surviving from the days when Highbury Hill was used for grazing cattle. Developers are currently consulting on proposals to build 150 homes on that land. Islington Green Party is calling upon Islington Council to make public an ecological survey, but the developer is blocking access to the survey. The council in turn is refusing to release the developer's survey and, moreover, is refusing to carry out any independent ecological survey of its own. Once the grassland is built upon, it will be lost forever. The public must be given full information now about this hidden gem - before it is too late. - Emma Dixon, Islington Green Party, via e-mail.
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