Lyminge Forest

At Lyminge Forest in Kent the RANK organisation are pushing ahead with their plans to build a holiday village with construction due to start in October. This large development will be built on over one thousand acres of ‘officially’ protected forest, wood and farmland which is part of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

This packaging of wild nature into a leisure commodity will devastate the countryside, and introduce thousands of cars into the area every day, with the usual accompanying development of roads and pollution, into the area. South East England will also lose one of it's few remaining refuges for an unusually rich diversity of wildlife, some of which is quite rare, while RANK’s 4,000 daily visitors will be free to further destroy the forest’s ecology - if we let them.

The Flat Oak Society is calling on people to come to Kent and help protect the forest. Direct Action is likely to start around the 1st August and people are needed to help set up a camp and defend it from the developers. For more information contact The Flat Oak Society on: 01227 463368.