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MPs publicly opposed to road through Rimrose Valley
As you may have seen on his social media accounts last week and in the local press, Bill Esterson MP has joined Peter Dowd MP in publicly supporting our calls for an alternative solution to the proposed road through Rimrose Valley. This is a welcome and significant...
Media Engagement
We've put together a panel of speakers who will be available for radio and TV interviews when needed. There will be some basic training provided so that each one knows what to do and say, and we're in the early stages of engaging with a marketing and PR company to...
Leaflet Drop Update
The leaflets for our first leaflet drop are now fully distributed. It's been a great success with over 20,000 homes leafleted to raise awareness of the threat to our green space and it brought us some press coverage. It's been startling to see just how many people...
‘Grow your Tenner’ Fundraising Campaign a great success!
On 17th October we launched our 'Grow your Tenner' fundraising campaign through Local Giving. Local Giving had secured £200,000 of funding to be shared amongst all the good causes it works with nationally, and for every £10 donated they matched it with another £10! ...
RVF Rejects Highways England’s invitation to be part of their “Mitigation Steering Group”
Highways England has approached Rimrose Valley Friends inviting us to be part of a steering group to look at the issues in relation to the construction of a dual carriageway through Rimrose Valley and how best to mitigate against them. Rimrose Valley Friends has...
Current status of Highways England’s planned Borehole Drilling on Rimrose Valley
We have learned that Highways England expects the Geotechnical work, which includes the drilling of Boreholes, to take place in the new year, but they cannot be any more specific on dates. The reason they give for not knowing is that the tender inviting quotations to...