Bushy Coombe Nature Reserve - just heard a rumour that this is going up for sale. Does anybody know if this is true? We've just arrived here and thought it was a public nature reserve owned by the council. We walk our dogs there.. It's a shame if it gets built on.

By kelly_wake at 08:00 on 19/01/12

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Hi Kelly , only one way to find out ,ask the owner , i shall email him later this evening .

Regards .

Nick

By NickCottle at 20:06 on 22/01/12
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When we were kids we used to play on Bushy Coombe and our kids all did the same. Course, it wasn't such a mess then and overgrown and the conker tree has died. It was great for sledging in them days (too many brambles now) and we dammed up the stream and scumped the apples and made dens in the barn

It'd be a shame if the wrong person bought it but I shouldn't think they'd let them build houses. Any rate, I don't reckon they'd have much luck keeping the kids out of there even if they tried. Or the grown ups neither, come to that. Everyone goes everywhere now.

By deano361 at 09:06 on 27/01/12
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Hi Deano361

People still play on Bushy Coombe. This is good..

The conker tree has been replanted, and sweet chestnuts and lots of others too. Brambles have their uses (wildlife habitat, fruit, tree regeneration) and for the last couple of years they haven't stopped people sledging in the snow - there's still a good run. The footpath is now negotiable, no longer slippery mud. Community events such as the maypole and Beltane fire are now staged on the coombe. While the badger population has declined a bit, the deer have certainly been more numerous in the last few years

As we said, it is not yet certain that some of Bushy Coombe will be up for sale this year. If it is, I feel sure the right person/people will buy it..

By anand88 at 16:29 on 27/01/12
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I think you said it was going for sale by auction. If that's the case it's the highest bidder who will buy it and they will do whatever they want with it.

By kelly_wake at 21:06 on 27/01/12
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You're twice wrong, Kell !

Relax. Please read our original post to you again: at the moment it is still just a possibility that we may have to sell part of the coombe this year to raise money for care for my mum.

If that happens (and I'm hoping it wont) it would be by auction or tender. But no, any new owner/s, if there were one, would not be able to do whatever they want with it, as Deano has already pointed out.

OK ?

By anand88 at 06:23 on 28/01/12
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"it's the highest bidder who will buy it and they will do whatever they want with it"

So ?
And what *exactly* has that to do with you ?
Just because you want a piece of private property to be what YOU would LIKE it to be -- that is, public property -- doesn't mean that you can make tetchy remarks about it simply because you're now miffed at realizing your own mistake.

If you're so concerned, then make the current owner an offer on it -- *IF* he puts it up for auction.
Then you can gift it to the town.
OK ?

By martinwheeler at 16:49 on 28/01/12
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I don't care who owns it as long as we can all continue to roam over it.. I don't have the money to buy it and if the new generous owner wants to give it to the town then that would be brilliant but who's going to do that?

By kelly_wake at 20:01 on 28/01/12
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"I don't care who owns it as long as we can all continue to roam over it"

Hmm. Interesting attitude you have to private property belonging to others.
"What's yours is mine" -- is that it ?
Do you apply this to *all* private property you take a personal fancy to ?
Care to elaborate on just exactly *why* you feel you have this 'right' ?

By martinwheeler at 01:48 on 29/01/12
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Kelly_wake said:
"I don't care who owns it as long as we can all continue to roam over it"

martinwheeler replied
Hmm. Interesting attitude you have to private property belonging to others.
"What's yours is mine" -- is that it ?
Do you apply this to *all* private property you take a personal fancy to ?
Care to elaborate on just exactly *why* you feel you have this 'right' ?

Are you going to answer these questions, Kelly?

By anand88 at 07:56 on 03/02/12
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