Meeting: Nature in the Park

We look forward to seeing you on Monday evening, 11 April, at the Millfields User Group meeting, 7 for 7.30 at the Nye Bevan Community Hall, Overbury St E5 OAH.

We’ll be focusing on biodiversity (ie wildlife & habitats) in the park, and the proposals to manage parts of the park to improve habitat & increase its inhabitants. The park is already a designated Site of Interest for Nature Conservation (SINC), with lots of interesting resources and possibilities. We hope to continue building a group of park users who are thoroughly involved in understanding this aspect of the park, planning its management and doing practical work.

There will be tea from 7 pm, with a bit of a display to get us thinking & talking. If you have photos or observations of wildlife in the park, please do bring them along to add to the display.

We’ll start the meeting prompt at 7.30. There will be a bit of procedural business to do, as the group has a backlog of minutes to approve, but we hope that we can spend almost all the evening on this very exciting topic.

There is a poster here. We hope you can print and display in it your window, a shop, school, etc.

The two background documents on biodiversity can be seen at our Plans page. They are:
  • The initial habitat survey by the London Wildlife Trust. The subtitle management plan 2010-15 is misleading because we have already moved on from its proposals. 
  • The current version of the implementation proposals drawn up by MUG and LBH.

Bridge upgrade

The walkway underneath Lea Bridge Road will be closed from Monday 28th March for 6 weeks (i.e. till 6 May) so that British Waterways can replace it. British Waterways will be putting up signs pointing to the nearest safe crossings further up and down Lea Bridge Road.

The new walkway is the same width, but the handrail will be repositioned outwards so that the full width of the walkway is available. There will be LED lighting in the handrails, facing downwards so as not to deter bats. We imagine the slippery-when-wet metal surface will be improved too.

We’ve taken the opportunity to ask whether the long-broken handrail on the towpath at south Millfields will be fixed as well. British Waterways will be repairing this ‘in the next few months’.

Problems:
BW 020 7985 7200.
Ben Kennedy, LBH Senior Transport Planner 020 8356 8023
Please cc MUG (& involve us if it’s helpful)