ABOUT US

ACCORDING TO THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH US WE ARE:

‘moaning interlopers’
Margaret Allkin in the Mereworth & West Peckham Record

‘sterile commuter communities who have very little understanding of the countryside’
Jane Bryant in the Kent Messenger

‘a few local residents who do not understand the complexity of the business’
Cynthia Thackwell in the Kent Messenger

‘the moaners are town people who have moved into the countryside’
W A Collier in The Mereworth & West Peckham Record

‘ These people need to get real’
Marion Regan of Hugh Lowe Farms in The Farmers Guardian

‘ I suspect that many of the objectors are relatively new to the village’
Trevor Sidley in The Record Parish Magazine

‘Nimbys, appear to think, from their perception of the moral high ground, that their’s is a legitimate holy war’.
Mark Siggers, Editor of the Record

‘A bunch of toffs thinking about nothing more than their house prices’
Overhead at a local conservative party farmer's meeting

WHO WE REALLY ARE:

This site is maintained by 'LANDSCAPE MATTERS' a group of people who live in and around the village of West Peckham in Kent and beyond who have become increasingly concerned about the spread of polytunnels in the area.

The group is not against polytunnels but feels that their use needs to be regulated in order to take into account the impact that they have on the landscape and the lives of those who live in, and visit, it. There needs to be a balance between the needs of the soft fruit industry and the wider implications of tunnel use.

Until recently farmers have not needed permission for large polytunnel operations but test cases elsewhere in the country have resulted in this type of development being brought into the planning process. For the first time local residents and other interested parties now have a democratic right to have their voices heard when polytunnel operations are proposed.

There are more details about LANDSCAPE MATTERS HERE