Our current campaign to have local Councils use their planning powers to tackle climate change and to highlight those councils who are not taking action – this project is primarily through our youth section.
Lecale Conservation is the leading environmental group in County Down.
PROTECTION OF LECALE’S BUILT HERITAGE
Working with the Down Planning office to protect heritage buildings in Lecale over a 30 year period....
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£10K won for Tyrella beach
Lecale Conservation Association has received funding from the Department of Infrastructure (DfI) ‘...
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COAST WATCH PROJECT 2015
Here are pictures of the Coney Island Residents Forum, supporters of the EU Beach campaign in Killou...
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CAMPAIGNING FOR PERIWINKLES 2007.
The Wildlife (NI) Order 1985 in Northern Ireland allowed the Department of Environment Northern Irel...
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TRAINING COURSES IN KILLARD NATURE RESERVE ON BUTTERFLY COUNTING
In 2018 Lecale Conservation discovered that due to cut-backs the Department of Environment had disco...
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EXPOSING MASSIVE FISH KILLS ON QUOILE RIVER AFTER DUP MINISTER SAMMY WILSON DENYS IT
DUP Minister for Environment denied (on the Hansard record) there had been another fish kill on the ...
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Ardglass – Cleanest beach in Ireland
Lecale Conservation campaigned for thirteen years to get the Northern Ireland Ports Authority (NIPA)...
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BALLYHORNAN BEACH DUNE RESTORATION 2015 to 2023
Links to Facebook posts over the years of this huge project show us working with a wide range of com...
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FORCING COUNCIL TO HIRE BIO-DIVERSITY OFFICER
In 2009 we succeeded in persuading a majority of Councillors in Down Council that ignoring its legal...
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Simmy Island Planning Campaign 2007
LECALE CONSERVATION PLANNING CAMPAIGNS This was one of several campaigns during this period where de...
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KILCLIEF COMMUNITY GARDEN – Our largest to date!
When the Kilclief Residents Association Chairperson, Maurice Denvir reached out to Lecale Conservati...
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POLLUTION AT RETAIL PARK AND FOOTBALL PITCHES 2011
This was one of numerous sewerage spills onto Dunleath Park that often closed the playing pitches or...
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