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As surveyors and contractors move in to start work, we’re still doing everything we can to save Kendal - but we can’t do it without you! We need your help right now!

An open letter to Kendal in response to letters and spurious comments from supporters of the Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme. Westmorland Gazette Letters, page 37, Thursday 9th January 2020.

Comments from our new year press release were featured in a two page article in the Westmorland Gazette on Thursday 9th January 2020. Here is the press release in full.

KASTLE, the young people’s environmental group, wanted to know more about Save The Heart of Kendal. Who we are, what we stand for, and why we are campaigning.

Can natural flood management help Kendal and avoid the implementation of destructive plans for a huge dam, concrete walls, wholesale tree felling and cultural impacts to an ancient and loved town?

We are calling on the EA to deliver a more sympathetic, non-destructive solution that delivers for Kendal, its people, heritage and environment... not unsightly, concrete walls.

Moved to tears by the proposed felling of over 500 mature trees in her home town of Kendal, Sue responded by writing a song to save our riverside trees.

In Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District, plans were being drawn up that would tear the green heart out of town and wreak havoc on its cherished riverside environment.