From Monday 11th July, a new subsidised tree scheme is being launched to help residents, landowners, farmers, community groups, schools, businesses, and charities to access 12,000 trees to plant in...
Countryside
Pill Pond, West Burton
Bury Parish Council last year passed a resolution to adopt a plan proposed by SDNPA and the Wild Trout Trust to remove the weirs impounding Pill Pond and allow the pond area to revert to a natural...
Swifts in Bury 2021
We have been provided with the following article titled 'Bury Swifts' by Paul Stevens Swifts are the quintessentially British site and sound of high summer around our cities, towns and...
Sand extraction and the Barlavington Whole Estate Plan
Barlavington Whole Estate Plan On 3rd February, we reported that the Barlavington Estate had been working on a Whole Estate Plan for the previous 12 months and were inviting comments via their...
Barlavington Estate – Estate plan consultation
Many parishioners will remember the opposition raised by Bury Parish Council a few years ago to the application made by the Barlavington Estate to extricate sand from their Horncroft site. The Estate...
Ash die-back on the Downs
Parishioners are no doubt aware of the clearance of a large number of trees suffering from ash die-back taking place on the downs between West Burton and Bury. Ash die-back is a very serious issue...