Bristol Downs Watch
Campaigning to Preserve Bristol Downs and the Avon Gorge
Downs Watch opposes plans to redesign the landscape of the Avon Gorge and Bristol Downs.
- Issues:
- Tree Felling Begins
- and Continues
- Scrub Clearance
- Ivy & Hawthorns
- Zoo Car Parking
- Future Plan?
Dangerous Trees- The Elm in May 2008
- Observatory Hill Clearance
PLANS TO CHANGE THE DOWNS AND AVON GORGE
In 2003 Downs Watch raised a petition of 1000 signatures calling on
Bristol City Council Downs Committee to stop clearing vegetation from the
Downs. A moratorium was agreed while detailed management proposals were drafted.
So far, management proposals have been approved
for the plateau (Clifton Down and Dyrdham Down) and a draft management plan has been
produced for the Avon Gorge.
However, if these proposals are implemented there will be dramatic changes to the landscape
of the Bristol Downs and the Avon Gorge.
These management proposals amount to a plan fundamentally to redesign the landscape in
order to attempt to return the Downs and the Avon Gorge to the open grassland of 150
years ago, when the area was grazed by sheep and was mostly treeless.
Downs Watch opposes any plans to redesign the landscape of the Avon Gorge and Bristol Downs.
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