Saturday 12th September 2009

SWAT - Stop Wickham Animal Testing

Saturday
12th September 2009

starts
12:00

Annual demonstration against Wickham laboratory to be held on Saturday 12 September 2009. Meet at mid-day in Mill Lane car-park in Wickham, Hampshire. This year the police have considered closing the roads throughout Wickham for the protesters to access, if this doesn't happen then the march will be moved to Fareham Town Centre. If planning permission has been obtained by Wickham laboratory to build at Torbay Farm a demonstration will take place there after the main march/demonstration in Wickham.

SWAT (Stop Wickham Animal Testing).
c/o PO Box 5668, Poole, Dorset, BH15 3ZR
Ph: 0845 458 4673 / 02392 588516 . [stopwickhamanimaltesting-at-resist.ca]
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Wickham has been the focus of animal rights protests and raids for many years. Keith Mann was imprisoned after breaking into Wickham labs and taking hundreds of mice, as well as damning evidence of Wickham's involvement with the testing of Botox on animals, despite the alleged ban on cosmetic testing.

Controversial labs may be demolished for new homes

A Hampshire animal testing laboratory faces demolition if owners get the go-ahead to replace it with 14 new homes. Owner of Wickham Laboratories, William Cartmell plans to tear down the controversial labs and erect homes on the site in Winchester Road, Fareham. However any celebrations by animal activists, who host annual demonstrations outside the labs, may be premature, as Mr Cartmell seeks to move the labs to Torbay Farm in Lower Upham.

Mr Cartmell has already been granted permission to demolish the labs but he is still seeking permission from Winchester City Council for his plans to build the homes.

The new plans have not been welcomed by Wickham Parish Council who claim Mr Cartmell has failed to consult local residents.
A date had not yet been set for the new planning application to be considered by the council's committee.

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