Devastation of a Site of Special Scientific Interest

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Police have stepped in after a protected stretch of the River Lugg has been totally obliterated by a 16-tonne bulldozer.
"A large stretch of one of the UK’s most important rivers, the Lugg, has been devastated, with dire consequences for wildlife and water quality downstream – this is a tragedy." Herefordshire Wildlife Trust chief executive Helen Stace.
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Police have stepped in after a protected stretch of the River Lugg has been totally obliterated by a 16-tonne bulldozer.
"A large stretch of one of the UK’s most important rivers, the Lugg, has been devastated, with dire consequences for wildlife and water quality downstream – this is a tragedy." Herefordshire Wildlife Trust chief executive Helen Stace.
DISGRACE
I read about this but no suggestion of who did it, not even in general terms.
 
They said they have a good idea who did it. When I looked at the photo and could see the houses in the the background I thought you don’t have to put two and two together to see why it was done!
 
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Apparently the land owner/ farmer carried out the work and it was after they and local parish council had a consultation with the EA. EA had advised that the banks of that stretch needed to be reprofiled to address slumping, silt needed to be removed from river where it was blocking one arch of a bridge, fallen trees and tree debris were to be removed as well as invasive plant species. Remedial work was intended to alleviate risk of flooding which has affected the nearby village in recent years.

It seems that the issue here is that the EA advised on what needed to be done but did not give permission fork work to begin.

The is also, allegedly, a dispute over planning permission caught up in this dispute.

Quite literally a mess but EA need to take a look at their own contribution.
 
By all accounts EA had been approached by locals who had suffered flooding the other year some with property still not recovered, and no action forthcoming. So local residents asked local farmer to help out and he carried out the work highlighted as needed.
I would guess many of those protesting don't actually live in the at risk zones, maybe the questions that should be asked are more about allowing building on flood plains
 
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