These are some of the comments YOU have made about protecting ancient woods and High Speed 2
Some things are more important than transport links. These woodlands are irreplaceable and are part of our national heritage.
I now help teach in two forest schools and am seeing how vital and healing the woods are, for a whole new generation of children, in so many ways.
First of all, HS2 isn't "green" -the construction work will be highly destructive, and the finished article isn't 'green' - at the proposed speeds the power draw-down will compare poorly with road and air. There is a viable alternative available (Rail Pack 2). In the light of both these reasons (plus other adverse economic factors) it is wholly unacceptable to destroy acres and acres of countryside, people's homes, farmland,
ancient woodland, and so on.
More trees need to be grown- not cut down- to absorb greenhouse gasses! 30mins saved on the journey from London is not a good enough reason to chop down all that woodland.
The proposed ideas will destroy small villages, communities, woodlands and is of extortionate cost to save just twenty minutes in journey time!
I live in Kent where the HS1 and Eurostar links caused mass destruction to our green belt, must another area of our heritage suffer?
For those of us who DO have to live in the fast lane, woodland, especially ancient woodland, offers a haven of serenity.
Perivale Wood, which is already threatened by the adjoining industrial site, new housing development and the railway, is privately owned and managed by the Selborne Society. It seems wrong to undo all the good work they have done over the last 100 years or so to protect this piece of woodland.
