Why is it important to request that Harrogate Borough Council designate the land off Tower Road Ripon HG4 1HJ as Local Green Space......
Tower Road Field is a special place in Ripon. Lying close to the City centre it is remarkable for having never been built on and now forms an ecologically important green corridor right to the heart of the City. It once formed part of the land of North Lodge and was planted in the early 19th century with horse chestnut and beech trees around its perimeter. These trees, over 50 of them, are now substantial mature specimens and together make up perhaps the finest collection in Ripon after those in the Old College campus. There is established public access to a footpath on the eastern side of the site and local children use it for informal recreation. This tranquil and rare survivor deserves to be kept undeveloped not least because of known unstable ground conditions. Instead it has the potential to become both a much-needed local area for informal recreation and provide a haven for flora and fauna in the centre of the City.
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This space has in recent years been cultivated to reflect its use in Victorian times - a superb oasis within the city.
Ripon needs local green spaces.
We need to keep our green corridors
green corridors are immensely important for flora and fauna to survive within towns and cities. It has also been found that children thrive better where there are green spaces in their surroundings.
This green space is invaluable to the city and the wild life who live here and should be protected
keep Ripon properly green
It is vital to keep the green spaces within our small city for wildlife and insects, to help keep this precious, small ecosystem.
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Why is it important to request that Harrogate Borough Council designate the land off Tower Road Ripon HG4 1HJ as Local Green Space......
Tower Road Field is a special place in Ripon. Lying close to the City centre it is remarkable for having never been built on and now forms an ecologically important green corridor right to the heart of the City. It once formed part of the land of North Lodge and was planted in the early 19th century with horse chestnut and beech trees around its perimeter. These trees, over 50 of them, are now substantial mature specimens and together make up perhaps the finest collection in Ripon after those in the Old College campus. There is established public access to a footpath on the eastern side of the site and local children use it for informal recreation. This tranquil and rare survivor deserves to be kept undeveloped not least because of known unstable ground conditions. Instead it has the potential to become both a much-needed local area for informal recreation and provide a haven for flora and fauna in the centre of the City.
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These trees are part of the beauty of Ripon and form, as it happens, a superb backdrop to the recently restored Workhouse Garden. The attraction of Ripon to tourists would be lost were they to go, as well as beauty. "Oh, if we but knew what we do when we rack and hew! - since countryside is so tender, her being so slender... " wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins. "When it's gone, it's gone!" as they say in the pound shops.
This space has in recent years been cultivated to reflect its use in Victorian times - a superb oasis within the city.
Ripon needs local green spaces.
We need to keep our green corridors
green corridors are immensely important for flora and fauna to survive within towns and cities. It has also been found that children thrive better where there are green spaces in their surroundings.
This green space is invaluable to the city and the wild life who live here and should be protected
keep Ripon properly green
It is vital to keep the green spaces within our small city for wildlife and insects, to help keep this precious, small ecosystem.
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These trees are part of the beauty of Ripon and form, as it happens, a superb backdrop to the recently restored Workhouse Garden. The attraction of Ripon to tourists would be lost were they to go, as well as beauty. "Oh, if we but knew what we do when we rack and hew! - since countryside is so tender, her being so slender... " wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins. "When it's gone, it's gone!" as they say in the pound shops.