I had 3 members of Hepscott parish Council visit the reserve on Wednesday as part of the planning approval process. They seemed to be pretty  supportive of the whole enterprise, however, they did express concerns that a ‘change of use’ of the land may, in the future make it easier to change it again to residential use! I hope I was able to mitigate some of those concerns by offering a statement from the landowner and a longer licence term for the reserve. They seemed pretty pragmatic with common sense so hopefully they see the benefit to the local community, we will see.