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Heathrow Expansion – the Colne Valley Regional Park’s position

We remain publicly and determinedly opposed to the plans to expand Heathrow Airport, which will cut the Park in two, changing it for ever. 1200 acres of Green Belt will be lost and many more hundreds of acres will be built over by displaced existing businesses, and for new facilities to serve a bigger Heathrow. What’s more, five rivers will be put into 2km-long tunnels or diverted, cutting connections for wildlife between the internationally-rare chalk streams of the Chilterns and the Thames.
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Landscape Recovery in and around Horton, Wraysbury, Colnbrook & Poyle

Over the past year, the Colne Valley Park Team has been working to enhance the green spaces around Horton, Colnbrook & Poyle, and Wraysbury. Find out what we have been up to…
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Why we need to protect the Colne Valley Regional Park

Act now to secure its legacy and potential!
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Green Skills Team Work On Crown Meadow in Slough

In partnership with SEGRO, Groundwork South has recently completed a Green Skills Team Project in Slough. This is a 6-week program in which unemployed individuals from Slough learn practical conservation and employability skills equipping them for employment in the green sector.
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Enjoying Our Rivers Safely

We certainly don’t want to cause unnecessary alarm among our many visitors, but it is only fair that we should remind members of the public that the water in local rivers like the Misbourne and Colne may well not be as clean as they might expect.
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Our Green Belt – Wither or Whither?

Green Belt is under threat of erosion by creeping development and an absence of planning vision. Professor Peter Bishop, co-author of a book ‘Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century’, spoke recently at the Colne Valley Regional Park’s conference and explains here how we could do better.
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Thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers

We’d like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers as well as all the other amazing volunteer groups helping to look after our beautiful regional park!
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Riverfly Surveying

Find out what Riverfly surveying is and how you can get involved in the Colne Valley Regional Park.
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How can we best conserve our Green Belt? Planning Conference starts conversation

MORE than 80 people attended the Colne Valley Regional Park’s conference at Brunel University on April 18, which focused on how the Green Belt on the fringe of London can be improved.
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