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The Deputy Mayor announced that the Mayor had today received a petition with a total of 2130 signatures. 

“The petition urged the Council to allocate a designated area to the south of Cheltenham (including the land formerly known as the Leckhampton White Land, Brizen Farm and Land West of Farm Lane) that shall be protected from inappropriate large-scale development.

This area of land is of high local community interest due to its attractiveness, views in an out of the AONB and the contribution it makes to the setting of Cheltenham.  We also highly value its easy accessibility for informal recreation, local food production, wildlife, environmental and ecological interest.

We suggest that although parts of this area are in Shurdington, this designated land may for convenience (at the council’s discretion) become known as LECKHAMPTON COUNTRY PARK.”

The petition was handed to Democratic services for the appropriate process to be followed.