Stop the Weymouth Relief Road Update & Videos — wish list & overhanging branch tactic!

Lat­est news: a tech­ni­cal­i­ty has meant a tree top protest against a new £87m relief road scheme in Dorset has con­tin­ued despite a legal rul­ing.

The gov­ern­ment has giv­en the go-ahead for the Wey­mouth relief road and Dorset Coun­ty Coun­cil secured a land pos­ses­sion order to evict pro­tes­tors.

But the demon­stra­tion, which began last Thurs­day, was con­tin­u­ing on Fri­day and has delayed work at Two Mile Cop­pice.

Pro­tes­tors have now occu­pied a tree branch over­hang­ing neigh­bour­ing land.

In the morn­ing, Dorset Coun­ty Coun­cil served a com­pul­so­ry pur­chase order on the land which meant the pro­tes­tors were legal­ly required to leave.

While the oak tree they are in is on land cov­ered by the notice, the branch they occu­py over­hangs adja­cent Wood­land Trust land.

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Tat list — What we need

And lat­est update (Sat­ur­day 20th Decem­ber):-

www.greenvoice.com — short­ly to be a web space for us

PLEASE CIRCULATE

update– we have an address of sorts, and dona­tions and xmas gifts would be great !”!!

Cash is ok to send as it is a secure post box, but phonecards for Orange are bet­ter than cash.
Also need AAA and AA bat­ter­ies — Dura­cell and Ener­gis­er or alka­line ONLY.
Rope — Green or blue polypro­pe­lene — 6mm or 10mm thick­ness.
Rope — Sta­t­ic climb­ing line — 10mm or larg­er.
Rope — Dynam­ic climb­ing line — any thick­ness
Rope — arborist lines — we have 2 tree sur­geons liv­ing with us and this rope is use­ful.

sec­ond hand rope is nor­mal­ly FREE from climb­ing cen­tres ‑indoor cen­tres often throw their ropes out every 6 ‑9 months — just call in and ask for it.

Tarps, plas­tic sheet­ing.

Tools — ham­mers, nails, saws, prun­ing saws, bill hooks.

2 way radios, nightvi­sion gog­gles, cat­a­pults (to get rope up), grap­pling hooks. Head torch­es — LED are best.

The Wood­land Trust still own the land that the road is being built on, but have waived their 14 days notice peri­od and told Dorset Coun­ty Coun­cil that it is ok to get on with cut­ting down the Ancient wood­land — basi­cal­ly they have thrown in the tow­el with­out even stand­ing up to argue or delay the destruc­tion on their land. The fact that the Wood­land Trust still own the land was record­ed in the Court case of the 18th decem­ber 2008 of Dorset
Coun­ty Coun­cil ’ v ’ Per­sons Unknown in Wey­mouth Coun­ty Court. Her Majesty’s Land Reg­istry in Ply­mouth also con­firmed it.

The peo­ple of Wey­mouth brought Two Mile Copse through pub­lic sub­scrip­tion. Local peo­ple dug deeply into their pock­ets and put their mon­ey into con­serv­ing the land for per­pe­tu­ri­ty, for us and all future gen­er­a­tions.

Dorset Coun­ty Coun­cil have so far not giv­en one pen­ny in com­pen­sa­tion, either to the Wood­land Trust, nor local peo­ple who raised the pub­lic mon­ey to pre­serve the wood in the first place.

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More update:-

Hi Ho!, HO!, Ho!

Liv­ing up 6 trees at wey­mouth — Two Mile Copse / Ted­dy Bear Woods. I helped fight against
this road back in 1996, and 2004 and we won it then.

BUT now they gone and done it and cut 70% of the trees.….

We have a 400 year old Oak in Ancient Wood­land that’s are pro­tect­ing and 4 Ash trees reach­ing 90 feet up into the sky. Also a tall and healthy young elm.

We have a tree house, a net, lots of walk­ways in the sky and an off route vis­i­tors site on the ground.

GET HELP + MEDIA now if u can.

regards

2 Mile Copse Protest Camp
c/o Lor­ton Barn
Lor­ton Lane
Lit­tle­Moor
Wey­mouth
DT3 5QH

Sor­ry we cur­rent­ly are in the process of arrang­ing a site mobile phone — num­ber to fol­low
short­ly

Links/more below & in pre­vi­ous sto­ry.

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Fol­low­ing from the Stop the Wey­mouth Relief Road bul­letin. Appar­ent­ly there is a chain­saw gang now oper­at­ing 1.5 miles fur­ther North from Lit­tle­moor, between Lit­tle­moor and Ridge­way. There are 3 pro­test­ers down there but they need more back up. I have been in con­tact with the pro­test­ers occu­py­ing the sight at Lit­tle­moor. They are in urgent need of more sup­port from locals to help on the ground and oth­ers to help build tree hous­es along the route, all help would be great­ly appre­ci­at­ed.

On site mobiles are 07792717821 / 07807952822

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Videos: 1 | 2

COUNCIL chiefs will go to court tomor­row in a bid to remove a grow­ing num­ber of pro­test­ers from the route of Weymouth’s planned relief road.

It comes as the stand-off inten­si­fied in Two Mile Cop­pice as eco-war­riors began mov­ing a fence and telling secu­ri­ty staff it encroached too far into the ancient wood­land.

But today Dorset Coun­ty Coun­cil is hop­ing to be grant­ed pos­ses­sion of the land by Wey­mouth Coun­ty Court.

The coun­cil is ask­ing the court to rule that the pro­test­ers must leave the prop­er­ty, and if they agree to that request, when they must leave.

The num­ber of pro­test­ers reached sev­en as a camp was set up beneath an oak tree that stands alone in the fenced off area of the woods.

Four pro­test­ers set up camp and roped off their own area below three more based up inside the tree.

One new arrival, known only as Andy, said: “We are here to stop the road as there are many rea­sons why the wood­land should not be chopped down.

“The oak tree we are in and beneath is hun­dreds of years old.

“We heard about the peo­ple here and want­ed to come to sup­port the action.

“We can help pro­vide food and what­ev­er else they need in the tree.

“If you let the coun­cil go ahead with the road it won’t be long before they want to chop more of this beau­ti­ful wood­land down for devel­op­ment.

“The road won’t actu­al­ly help pre­vent traf­fic con­ges­tion in the end any­way.”

A coun­cil spokesman con­firmed clear­ance work is con­tin­u­ing in the west­ern edge strip of Two Mile Cop­pice and said it is hoped this will be fin­ished before Christ­mas.

She said: “There is a coun­ty court hear­ing today where the coun­ty coun­cil will be ask­ing for an order for the tres­passers to hand over the land to the pos­ses­sion of the coun­cil.”

Nick Pep­per, 41, has camped in the woods since he came down from a tree which has now been chopped down.

Mr Pep­per, who pre­vi­ous­ly lived in Wey­mouth but now lives in Bris­tol, said: “As soon as we received the legal papers to evict the tree we thought we’d bet­ter have a legal­ly legit­i­mate sup­port camp.

“We are pro­tect­ed under the 1977 Crim­i­nal Law Act which stops us from being legal­ly evict­ed or ille­gal­ly assault­ed.

“We’ve actu­al­ly squat­ted in an area of land so we can pro­tect the peo­ple up the tree from intim­i­da­tion or ille­gal activ­i­ty.

“There needs to be open access so we can mon­i­tor what’s going on.”