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Timeline Hub

This is the record of what happened on our side of the A4123 — the land that was sold, the spaces that disappeared, the people who were ignored, and the decisions that reshaped everything around us.


Across seven timelines, the pattern is clear:

neglect, unequal investment, environmental damage, and public assets stripped away with nothing given back.
 

This is the evidence. This is the story. And it’s time people saw it for what it is.

Each timeline gives the short version of events.

At the bottom of every timeline page, you can:

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  • open the full chapter for deeper detail.

  • scroll through timelines

  • return here to 'The Hub'

SECTION 1 —
The Brook / River Tame Corridor

A chronological record of how the river corridor was changed piece by piece — land sold, buffers removed, parks lost, and flood‑mitigation dismantled.

 

This section shows exactly how the landscape shifted around us, and how every decision upstream pushed consequences downstream.

SECTION 2 —
The Stolen Allotment

A decade of enquiries, delays, contradictions, and quiet decisions that ended with the Penncricket Lane Allotments being sold out from under the community.

 

This section lays out the full paper trail — what was asked, what was said, and what really happened.

SECTION 3 —
Public Asset Stripping

A breakdown of every public green space that disappeared along the corridor — parks, fields, allotments, wildlife land — all sold, fenced, cleared, or built on.

 

The pattern is simple: assets removed, nothing returned, and the community left with less every time.

SECTION 4 —
Socioeconomic Disparities

A look at how years of unequal investment and environmental neglect shaped daily life here — fewer parks, poorer walkability, worse health, limited services, and rising isolation.

 

This section shows how the loss of land became the loss of opportunity.

SECTION 5 —
Wildlife & Environmental Loss

A record of the ecological damage across the River Tame corridor — habitats erased, trees removed, wildlife pushed out, and the brook itself buried, fenced, or forced underground.

 

This is what happens when a living system is treated as an inconvenience.

SECTION 6 —
Regeneration Elsewhere

A comparison of where the money went — and where it didn’t. While millions were invested in parks, pavilions, schools, and heritage sites elsewhere, every green space on this side of the A4123 was lost.

 

Regeneration flowed one way, and it wasn’t here.

People can ignore a complaint.

They can’t ignore a permanent record.

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This one stays.

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