Beaulieu Estate's Park Plan Sparks Village Uproar

0:00On April 20th, villagers in Bolia, one of Britain's priciest spots with homes averaging over 2 million pounds, are up in arms over a plan by the Bolia estate to add a 46 space gravel car park on Grassland in the Protected New Forest National Park. The spot sits just meters from the estate's massive 1,000 space lot near the National Motor Museum and its pitch for a nearby treehouse run by an education trust that hosts limited weddings to fund its work. People say the estate is using the charity angle to sneak in bigger commercial events like weddings and festivals pointing to past editions like a 4x4 track and ropes course as signs of steady expansion into farmland used for grazing over 500 years. Residents worry about noise, light pollution, traffic, and runoff. Polluting a nearby special scientific interest site plus it sets a bad precedent for more development in this tranquil ancient woodland area. The New Forest National Park Authority will decide on April 21st and folks hope they

1:01see through the small-scale pitch to protect the village's peace before any more creep happens.