11 February 2016
The voluntary group Black Rainbow Events have published their programme of guided walks for 2016. All walks are either within Trent Park or start or finish there.
Trent Park History and MysterySunday 20th March 201610:00am till 12:30pmDistance: no more than 3 miles
Trent Park Link Walk (Trent Park to Arnos Park)Sunday 17th April 201610:00am till 2:00pmDistance: no more than 6 miles
The Beauty of Nature RevealedSunday 22nd May 201610:00am till 12:30pmDistance: no more than 3 miles
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05 January 2016
The environmental group Thames 21 has issued a progress report on one of its north London projects - the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge. During 2015 work was continued in Grovelands Park and along the Houndsden Gutter.
What is the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge?
The Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge is part of Thames 21's Love the Lea programme of work to improve the quality of the water in the River Lea, some of which is used to provide drinking water and some.......
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28 November 2015
Within the next few weeks Enfield Council is hoping to start work to restore the double
avenue of trees in Broomfield Park which extends in a straight line across the whole of the top field from the western edge of the Park in the direction of the ornamental ponds and remains of Broomfield House. The avenues and the remains of a former
"causeway" running between the tree lines are regarded as important features relating to the Park's Baroque history.
The existing avenue of lime trees.......
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11 November 2015
The Chair of the Pinkham Way Alliance (PWA) has written to Haringey Council's cabinet member for planning policy to complain about suppression and misrepresentation of evidence which contradicts the Council's policy of classifying woodland at Pinkham Way as suitable for employment use.
In his letter dated 5th November 2015 Stephen Brice writes that the PWA has come to the view that its evidence "is so inconvenient for the Council that there has been a systematic attempt to bury it".
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01 November 2015
The charity London Wildlife Trust is appealing to householders to reverse the trend towards paving over gardens, especially front gardens from which rainwater spills onto roads and into drains. The following article is reproduced from the Trust's website.
We are losing our gardens at an alarming rate. The allure of free off-street parking, a bigger bike shed or simply the idea of a low maintenance space in our busy modern lives has left our city’s gardens in crisis.
In London,.......
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11 October 2015
The Pinkham Way Alliance has now published the response it submitted to the consultation about the North London Waste Plan. Following a fundraising campaign, the Alliance was able to employ a planning consultancy, Turley, to present arguments against the allocation of Pinkham Wood as a potential site for waste processing, and, more generally, to question the draft Waste Plan's assumptions about future waste volumes and required processing throughput.
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03 May 2015
If you're a regular visitor to Broomfield Park, you're probably familiar with the pair of Egyptian Geese that were frequently seen there. Sad to say, there is now only one of these good-looking birds.
Egyptian geese in Broomfield Park during February 2013The death of one of the Egyptian Geese was noted by Derek Honnor of the Friends of Broomfield Park. Derek posts a monthly report on bird sightings in the Park, which you can find on noticeboards and also on the Friends of Broomfield.......
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13 April 2015
How well do you know your birds and birdsong? Les Edwins of the Friends of Firs Farm is also a local RSBP representative and is organising a bird survey in Firs Farm this month. It will require early morning visits to Firs Farm between 5 and 6 am to identify birds by sight or sound and recording when they were seen and whereabouts in the park they were.
If you have don't mind the early start and are interested in helping with this, please get in touch to find out more and the proposed.......
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24 January 2015
Network Rail have written to people living adjacent to the railway line in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill to notify them that work to create a vegetation-free strip of land on either side of the line will start on 9th February and continue until 20th March.
The work will involve clearing trees and other vegetation on both sides of the track so that there are no branches within 3.5 metres of the railway overhead power lines. This is to make a strip of between 6 and 7 metres wide for the safe.......
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09 January 2015
A project to create an attractive wetlands habitat from a previously underused green space has been shortlisted for support from the Mayor of London's Big Green Fund.
Firs Farm, the open space to the south of Firs Lane on the Winchmore Hill/Edmonton border, has up to now been associated mainly with football pitches and dog walking (though earlier in its history it was used as a shelter for prisoners of war). However, its transformation is already under way, thanks to collaboration.......
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01 November 2014
Southgate District Civic Trust and Enfield Grammar School are combining to place a local blue plaque on the house where pioneer wildlife photographer Oliver Pike (1877-1963) lived with his family from 1882 to 1914, 96 Green Dragon Lane in Winchmore Hill, which was the location for his early natural history photographs and books. The plaque will be unveiled on 16 November 2014 at 2pm by two of Oliver Pike’s grandsons, Jonathan and Richard Dollimore.
Oliver Pike was probably the first.......
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10 July 2014
This Sunday's Super Summer Sunday at Woodcroft Wildspace will feature a huge range of events and stalls to suit all tastes and ages.
In the Entertainment Arena:
Signature Sounds Daytime Disco
Musical Mummies
Chasamba Dance Exercise
Maria Evangelou
Woodcroft Quartet
That Blue Patch
That Swing Singer
Photo Booth Fun
Eco Gym Demo
Organic Gardening Question Time
In the Kids' Corner:
Tatty Bumpkin (yoga)
Music Bugs
Kids' Orienteering
Little Treasures Workshop
Plus Food, Craft.......
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24 May 2014
Fox Lane and District Residents' Association are asking residents to object to an application to fell a large oak tree which is protected by a Tree Preservation Order.
The tree (see photograph) is on land between the railway line and Caversham Avenue where the developers Sherrygreen are currently building new flats and houses.
For more information, visit the Fox Lane website........
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19 December 2013
Woodcroft Wildspace volunteer teams are continuing work to improve the former sports ground in Winchmore Hill which they have been converting into an area where people can take pleasure in nature, as well as learning about insects, birds, small mammals, pond life, plants and trees.
The Friends of Woodcroft Wildspace have been in existence since 2003 and now number 1000 members. Since 2004 they have been gradually working towards the plan shown on the map. Last year the future continuation of.......
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12 November 2013
has begun to try to secure the future of the 800-year-old Minchenden Oak, which forms the centrepiece of the Minchenden Oak Garden in Waterfall Road, Southgate.
The Minchenden Oak dates from the time of the ancient Forest of Middlesex and is one of the oldest in Greater London. In the 19th Century it was reported to be the largest oak in the UK. However, it has begun to subside recently and because of its size and proximity to homes, Enfield Council commissioned independent tree experts to.......
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07 November 2013
Next weekend there is a rare opportunity to help create a new hedgerow of native plants in the rural depths of Palmers Green - to be precise, in Broomfield Park alongside Aldermans Hill and Powys Lane. The work is being carried out by volunteers from the Friends of Broomfield Park, who have been given 420 "whips" - young bareroot saplings - by the Woodland Trust.
The volunteers will be planting eight types of tree - Elder, Hazel, Blackthorn, Dog Rose, Crab Apple, Birch, Rowan and Oak.
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07 October 2013
Two local community groups are continuing their efforts to save a mature oak following an appeal against a Council rejection of an application to fell it.
The tree (see photograph) is located close to Lady Shaw Court, a modern development near the intersection of Fox Lane and St Georges Road, and is one of only a few trees on the Lakes Estate which are subject to a Tree Preservation Order. When an application to fell the tree was submitted to Enfield Council in April this year, both the.......
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28 September 2013
A conservation group has expressed concern about Network Rail's planned tree removals alongside the railway in Palmers Green, which is due to begin on Monday 30th September (this this earlier report).
Colin Younger, Chair of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area Study Group, has written to Network Rail to express the Group's worries that the "attention" to "more sycamore trees" which the rail company say is needed might lead to wholesale removal of tree cover, as has happened along other sections.......
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25 September 2013
Network Rail are to carry out work on trees on railway land in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. The work, to be carried out between 30th September and 11th October, will affect "approximately 10-12 trees" which have been identified by an arboricultural survey as dead, diseased or dying.
The approximate locations of the trees affected are shown on the maps.
Network Rail have stated that the work is necessary to maintain a reliable and safe railway and have pointed out that last year a.......
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