VALLEY PONDS PLUS CONSERVATION MEASURES
Things have not worked out.
By Celia Malfroot
From being "Newhaven's Jewel in the Crown", an old Newhaven mayors' words, where couples came from St Michaels Church to have their wedding photos taken on a very regular basis, to this.
So clever that the twelve duckling hatched this year soon became none, all the Moorhen chicks met the same outcome. The pond surrounds being in such a disgraceful state it allows the cats and foxes to have easy pickings.
The areas sown with wild flower seeds have turned into a complete failure. The long grass is wet with dew or rain and dog walkers get soaked if going to the dog bin, the paths are supposed to be a metre wide.