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Read Saved and help protect Kent
It’s more than a year now since Saved, my real-life account of the successful battle to prevent a huge housing complex swallowing the little Kent village of Wye, appeared. You can still buy the book in the village at Wye News and campaign headquarters, the New Flying Horse. But there’s a fresh outlet too.
I have donated most of the remaining copies of the book to the doughty campaigners facing a similarly greedy and unnecessary development nightmare in nearby Sellindge. So please visit their site and support their campaign, with a book if you like (all proceeds now go to their campaign and another local charity).
For those of you too far away to get a book - or if you’d simply like to know what all the fuss is about - I’m happy to put the entire book of Saved online below. You can email it to others as a pdf and, if you join up to Scribd for free using the icon below, download your own copy too. To see a larger version which you can adjust to your own preferred size just click on the Scribd icon.
A new chance for Wye
Wye college seen from the churchyard
It’s now eighteen months since an extraordinary campaign to save the rural area of Wye in Kent fought off a vile and deceitful attempt to build on an official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. I was proud to be a part of that campaign, and document it in my non-fiction retelling of the story, Saved.
If only the news had stayed as welcoming. We always knew that Imperial College, London, the principal developer behind the Wye plan, would probably abandon the village in which it inherited a promising agricultural college less than a decade before. But so soon?