‘Leisure land’: Cotswolds meadow locals campaign against sell-off plan

Community around Juniper Hill Field wants to stop wildflower-rich land being divided into small plots

A hilltop meadow of flower-rich limestone grassland in the Cotswolds is under threat, according to residents, after it was divided into four-acre plots for people seeking to buy leisure land" in the countryside.

The Save Juniper Hill Field campaign wants to list the eight-hectare (20-acre) field close to the poet Laurie Lee's childhood home as an asset of community value" to stop it being parcelled up by Woodlands.co.uk, which specialises in buying tracts of land and reselling it in relatively small plots.