Heard today that Bath University had officially pulled out of its plans to build a campus on a site between Coate (home of the writer and poet Richard Jefferies) and the Downs; the site (from Coate Water) is incredibly beautiful and contains the remains of at least one stone circle. As the project would have also included a housing development and a business park these are now likely to be rejected when re-submitted in May. Though not on the scale of Thornborough it's a success non-the-less and a lot of credit for that success must go to Jean Saunders who lead the Save Coate Campaign.