In Sussex, on the edge of Lewes by the River Ouse, are more than twenty acres of land, used for over fifty years as rail yards. When they were dismantled, they became a wasteland. After twenty-five years of benign neglect, the land was saved from development by a group of local residents. Since then, it has become a prized nature reserve around which several social and ecological projects gravitate. These, and the web of relations between them, constitute the Railway Land Project.
Trust decides to build
Date: 06/02/2009
We've done it - we are going ahead! There is much to do and we will need to go on fund-raising but on 29th January the trustees took a unanimous decision to go ahead on a shell and core basis.
Full press release below.....
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Full press release below.....
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This website, part-financed by the European Union and the Railway Land Wildlife Trust, is managed by the Trust which co-ordinates the Railway Land Project on the ground in partnership with Lewes District Council.

