Campaigners seek more land protection from housing development
Science Desk
Residents in a Norfolk town are requesting that additional space be granted the same safeguards from development, following a successful campaign to secure protection for local parkland. Seven acres, or 2.8 hectares, of land at Harding's Pits, located beside the River Great Ouse in King's Lynn, will be preserved after the county council granted it village green status.
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The Harding's Pits Community Association had campaigned for the past 30 years to keep the area as leisure space. Now, the group is seeking to extend this protection to the east side, which has been earmarked for up to 50 houses in King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council's local plan. The authority has been approached for comment.
