Impact Statements
Judith's Impact Statement
The facts of the appalling mistreatment we have suffered at the hands of Shropshire Wildlife Trust and its trustees are all documented in our correspondence and in the emails of Ms S.
I’m
an 89 year old woman who can only with great difficulty walk to my
property which for 15 years I haven’t been able to use. I can’t
get workmen to come over to repair the terrible deterioration that
the cottage has suffered as we have no usable track, which I offered
to put in.
I
wonder how you can equate this behaviour with your daily lives but
then it hasn’t impinged or affected you in any way so you continue
with the myth that you are saving a valued piece of land from a two
tyre track?
Let’s
take XX (property name) as an example, their property is on the common as
is mine. There the parity stops, they were allowed to put in a two
tyre track.
We
have tried endlessly for 15 years for the same equality because of
the track they run a profitable business, they can get workmen over
and were allowed a mechanical digger over to dig out ditches outside
their house which is on the common “to prevent flooding of our
property”, all that we ever wanted was to put in a two tyre track.
You,
and the trustees have with your machination destroyed what should
have been my happy retirement. That intelligent and professional
people such as yourselves have not only condoned but perpetuate this
terrible misuse of the power that you have wielded to the detriment
of both my health and financial well being.
It
is within your power to put this right. You cannot undo the awful
stress and worry you have caused neither can you give me back all my
wasted years trying to be allowed to put a track in so that I may
drive over which the Prescriptive Right allows but you the trustees
won’t allow.
Your
reprehensible actions have been rewarded with charity status.
I
remain yours in great sadness and depression that I will die without
ever being able to use my home.
Shame
on you all.
Judith
W*
Meredith's Impact Statement
I graduated in late 2009, I had secured employment, my mother and I had planned to move to the property. All that changed with the deliberate obstruction to our legal right of way.
I
was unable to take up my job. I have now been unemployed for over 15
years, my degree is out of date, I am too old to emigrate, I have
suffered a substantial and ongoing loss of income.
My
late uncle was a commoner and I wanted to start my own business, this
is impossible without vehicular access. Shropshire Wildlife Trust and
Natural England have substantially interfered with our business
interests.
We
could have sold the property many many times over, and invested
elsewhere.
Our
lives were hard enough, but the open hostility, vandalism and
continued deterioration of the cottage has produced the most acute
anguish. The incredible stress and worry have taken their toll, I
constantly feel ill.
My
mother has under gone two whole knee operations during the last 15
years. I have watched my poor mother’s health deteriorate month in
month out, she has suffered irreparable damage to her health.
There
has been no change in our circumstances, we are still trudging across
the common, we have been left in limbo, we have been unable to move
on with our lives, whilst OTHERS have not only benefitted
greatly but have led charmed lives.
It is deeply, deeply disturbing that so many intelligent, well educated, professional people consider this an acceptable way to behave. All we have to show is 15 years of misery and wasted life, reams of paper work, subjected to endless red tape and constant moving of the goalposts.
Words
cannot adequately describe what my poor mother and I have endured,
our health continues to deteriorate. Our lives would have been so
very very different but for the substantial interference caused by
Shropshire Wildlife Trust and Natural England.
This has cost us dearly.
Meredith W*