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.

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.

An impassioned opposition plea to the planning committee in June 2019. The last opportunity to present a case against the flood plans.

Opposition speech from the Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme planning meeting where speakers were given 3 minutes to present their case.

At the public planning meeting to discuss the Kendal flood plans, I sat in the public gallery, thinking I would leave it to the experts. What I heard was shocking.