Press

9.1.2024

Save Weekley Hall Wood planning decision reported on ITV News Anglia

9.1.2024

Save Weekley Hall Wood planning decision report on BBC Look East

9.1.2024

Kettering warehouse park campaign victory is perfect example of people power

9.1.2024

Kettering’s Weekley Hall Woods saved from the chop

9.1.2024

Can Weekley Hall Wood become another Stanwick Lakes?

9.1.2024

Kettering campaigners’ victory in battle for wood

8.1.2024

David beats Goliath as campaigners win fight against Kettering warehouse park plan

7.1.2024

Martin Toms wrote a letter to the editor in response to this article:

‘We left London for our 11,000-acre family estate during lockdown – and never looked back’

5.1.2024

Anxious wait for Kettering campaigners with decision over controversial warehouse park plan expected this month

27.12.2023

Campaigners organise New Year’s Eve ‘bimble’ around under-threat Kettering green space

8.12.2023

‘Let us keep Kettering’s treasure’ – planning inspector hears final pleas to save meadow from warehouses

6.12.2023

Planning Inquiry public speakers session on ITV News Anglia

5.12.2023

Kettering MP brands controversial planned warehouses ‘out of scale and inappropriate’ at inquiry

29.11.2023

SWHW spokesperson Frankie O’Dowd interviewed with a history of the campaign on BBC Radio Northampton

29.11.2023

The battle to Save Weekley Hall Wood enters its final phase

29.11.2023

Weekley Hall Wood: Public inquiry begins into warehouse plans

28.11.2023

Save Weekley Hall Wood Public Inquiry featured on BBC Look East

28.11.23

‘Warehouses would destroy this’ – campaigners urge Kettering planning inquiry inspector to preserve ‘sanctuary’

9.11.2023

Save Weekley Hall Wood campaign reported on ITV News Anglia

8.11.2023

Campaigners fighting against Kettering warehouse park plan launch ‘double your money’ final fundraising push

7.11.2023

Save Weekley Hall Wood Public Inquiry featured on BBC Look East

31.10.2023

Kettering family fun day celebrates Halloween and helps campaign against warehouse park

25.10.2023

Campaigners hosting Kettering family fun day to help fund barrister in fight against warehouse park

4.10.2023

Campaigners need £10,000 in ‘David and Goliath’ battle against Kettering warehouse park plan

11.9.2023

Weekley Hall Wood campaigners interview broadcast on the Annabel Amos Breakfast Show

11.9.2023

Kettering Weekley Hall Wood campaigners in shock

11.9.2023

Weekley Hall Wood: Government to rule on warehouse park planning battle

30.8.2023

Controversial Kettering warehouse park decision taken out of council’s hands

12.8.2022

My NN: Writer Julia Thorley shares her favourite places

12.9.2022

Comedian treats Kettering crowd to surprise gig and drinks all round

1.8.2022

Weekley Hall Woods protestors storm grounds of stately home

1.8.2022

Extinction Rebellion activists march on Duke’s land in Kettering warehouse protest

29.7.2022

Extinction Rebellion planning ‘uprising’ at Duke’s estate over Kettering warehouse plan

19.7.2022

Kettering campaigners’ community festival attracts hundreds in heatwave

12.7.2022

Kettering Pleasure Park Community Festival returns

6.5.2022

‘Shame on you’: Kettering warehouse plan approved after vocal protest

5.5.2022

Weekley Hall Wood: Council approves plans for warehouse

4.5.2022

The aristocrat versus the people of Kettering

4.5.2022

Campaign sees 20,000 say no to controversial warehouse plan

22.4.2022

Kettering wood saved from the chop – but campaigners vow to fight revised warehouse plans

9.2.2022

‘Attack on democracy’ as bid to let more speak at North Northamptonshire Council planning meetings denied

8.2.2022

North Northamptonshire Council to press ahead with ‘undemocratic’ planning meeting rules

14.12.2021

Hundreds show their love for Kettering wood at ‘magical’ winter festival

7.12.2021

Kettering woodland festival will celebrate coming of winter

30.11.2021

North Northamptonshire warehouse pressure groups join forces to fight rural developments

9.11.2021

Kettering Arts Centre to host Save Weekley Hall Wood fundraiser

5.10.2021

Full review of ‘unwieldy’ planning system at North Northamptonshire Council promised by executive amid public criticism

28.9.2021

More than 100 join walk to show their love for Kettering wood

21.9.21

Campaigners plan walk to show support for Kettering woods

27.8.2021

Weekley Hall Woods: Kettering warehouse decision deferred

27.8.2021

People power shines through as Kettering warehouse plan decision put on hold

27.8.2021

Save Weekley Hall Wood on the BBC Radio Northampton Breakfast Show with Annabel Amos

27.8.2021

Save Weekley Hall Wood Planning Committee protest featured on BBC Look East

26.8.2021

Environment campaigners ‘left without a voice’ at Kettering warehouse meeting

24.8.2021

The battle to save Weekley Hall Woods reaches the council chamber

24.8.2021

‘Put wildlife before warehouses’: placards at the ready as Kettering plan set for green light

10.8.2021

Kettering festival goers’ woodland not warehouses message

27.7.2021

Kettering community family-friendly festival to bring music, food and fun

23.6.2021

Warehouses are taking over the Earth

2.6.2021

The team featured on the breakfast show with Tom Percival at Weekley Hall Wood

20.5.2021

Corby and Kettering Festival of Social Justice to celebrate activism

18.5.2021

Campaign to save under-threat Kettering wood hits another milestone

5.5.2021

Weekley Hall Wood mentioned on BBC Look East as part of an interview with Councillor Dez Dell

24.3.2021

Kettering wood campaign group joins forces with conservation charity

21.2.2021

Kettering environment campaigner’s community award is well Dez-erved

6.1.2021

How the pandemic galvanised a town to fight to save its woodland

3.12.2020

Kettering councillor quits committee role to oppose controversial warehouse development

25.11.2020

Weekley Hall Wood: More than 10,000 back campaign to save woodlands from developers

24.11.2020

Ten thousand join fight against Kettering warehouse plan which would see woodland chopped down

20.7.2020

‘Phenomenal’ turnout as 55 bags of rubbish cleared in Kettering litter pick

7.7.2020

“Staggering” amount of rubbish fly-tipped in Kettering woods

26.6.2020

Calls for pedestrian crossing on Kettering road to avoid a serious accident

22.6.2020

Residents rally support to save Weekley Hall Wood

9.6.2020

Douglas to run half-marathon in Kettering woods earmarked for the chop

19.5.20

Thousands say no to East Midlands warehouse development

14.5.2020

Thousands say no to Kettering warehouse development which will ‘destroy’ woods

5.5.2020

Save Weekley Hall Wood campaigner Dez Dell on with Bernie Keith

3.4.2020

Fury as woods earmarked for the chop to make way for Kettering warehouse park

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