Labour launch Rewilding Plan

As residents of Whitstable, we are proud of where we live and our access to open spaces – but how should these best be managed? Whitstable Labour Party has launched a report, challenging current practices in a bid to ensure nature plays an active role in the centre of our town.

We want to ‘Rewild Whitstable’ in a close partnership with the local community. Our town is packed full of people actively trying to green their local environment and we believe our Council has a role in bringing all this creativity together.

Rewilding builds back nature so that it can look after itself. Just some ideas for central Whitstable and Tankerton are:

• Increasing porous areas, such as soil and grass to absorb storm water, reducing sewage overflows
• More sympathetic planting of our cemeteries, floral displays and allotments to encourage bees
• Reducing mowing in sections of our parks and open spaces so that they return to wildflower meadow
• Digging up sections of large paved areas to add trees and encouraging green roofs in future development

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