Your Green is Under Threat
Four years after it agreed to a 25 year arrangement for Harding’s Pits to be managed as a Doorstep Green, King’s Lynn borough council wants the land back.
Please help to save it. Click here to go to our petition page.
Go to the 'Fight for the Pits' page to read the latest on our fight to save Harding's Pits for the town.
Contacts
Chairman — Jane Dearling
The Harding's Pits Community Association Ltd,
Telephone: 01553-760513
Email: jane@hardings-pits.org.uk
If you have any problems or comments concerning the website please contact the webmaster at hugh@hardings-pits.org.uk
Links
Friars Community Group - The Friars area connects to Harding's Pits along its eastern side and is one of the oldest parts of the town. Read about its fascinating history here.
www.friars.org.uk
King's Lynn Marina - This website exists to report on the King's Lynn Marina and Waterfront Regeneration project. It opposes the destruction of Harding's Pits and supports public pressure to steer the Marina project into a more sustainable and acceptable form.
www.kingslynnmarina.com
Green Quay - Marriot's Warehouse now known as The Green Quay stands on the South Quay of the River Ouse. It is a fine example of an old Tudor Warehouse and was built in the heyday of the Elizabethan age around the 1580s. Now an Environmental Discovery Centre concerned with the Wash. With a café and frequent exhibitions.
www.thegreenquay.co.uk
Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk - www.west-norfolk.gov.uk
Fairstead Doorstep Green - John Burns, Fairstead Area Neighbourhood Group, 01553-692400
The Wash Estuary Project - www.washestuary.org.uk
Doorsteps Greens, Natural England - www.naturalengland.org.uk
Thanks
The Harding's Pits Community Association Ltd. acknowledges the financial and practical support of:-
- The New Opportunities Fund and the Local Heritage Initiative, both administered by the Countryside Agency (now Natural England)
- The Nar-Ouse Regeneration Area (NORA) Partnership (the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk County Council, the East of England Development Agency, English Partnerships and Morston Assets)
- Richard Morrish Associates, Landscape Architects and Environmental Planners
- Ben Platts-Mills, sculptor, and his team, Westec
- The 7th King's Lynn Scouts
- Messrs Wagg-Jex and Co., Ltd.
- Members of the King's Lynn Baptist Church (South Lynn)
- Safeguy Safety Clothing (King's Lynn)
- The Norfolk Area Unpaid Work Unit (King's Lynn)
- and of the many individual people of King's Lynn who have encouraged the development of the Harding's Pits Doorstep Green.
Artwork by Janet Johnston
Web Design by Hugh Rout hugh@hardings-pits.org.uk
