SIR – This letter absolutely reduced me to tears as it touched my heart.

Of all the messages. I have read over the past six weeks, I think this heartfelt letter says it all.

“Dear SWDP

 My name is Joshua Harrison, I’m a seven, nearly eight-year-old boy. I have lived in and around Pershore my whole life and I have went to walk my dog around Tiddesley Wood plenty of times.

I’m worried about the deer. I’ve been on a walk and spotted about 15 deer and I want to make a change.

Please stop what you are doing, it is not just harming the deer but the other animals such as badgers, rabbits, foxes, hedgehogs, butterflies, birds and bees not to mention slow worms too, because you are building the houses right where I have seen all these animals. So stop now! 

Josh Harrison

Pershore

PS I’m going to a meeting about this!”

 Joshua and his generation are the ones we are fighting to preserve the ancient woodland for.

I am 50 years old and have so many happy memories of this woodland. My elderly mother is 83 and she and her siblings spent most of their youth around Stocken Brook and Tiddesley Wood.

Being a rural small town, we have had the privilege to grow up observing the wildlife around us and Joshua’s generation deserve the same.

This is the reason so many in our Protecting Pershore’s Woodland Facebook Group are fighting against the building of 450 houses right up to the borders of Tiddesley Wood in Defford Road, Pershore. 

Trudy Burge

Pershore