RSPB ignores widow’s wishes and looks to sell land for housing

‘The RSPB is looking to sell land bequeathed to them to housing developers for an estimated £6 million profit despite the widow’s wishes that the land should never be built on.

The charity was left 20 acres of green space in a rural area of Cheshire by environmentalist Lavinia Rhead following her death.

But in spite of her dying wish that the land should never be built on, the charity is looking to sell it to housing developers.

Neil Robertson, the RSPB’s director for Northern England, admitted that Mrs Rhead had specifically asked before her death in 2001 that the land “should not be built upon.”

He claims the development could “promote and enhance the biodiversity” of the area, despite the farmland being home to barn owls, lapwings and badgers.’

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