Biodiversity

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Hackney Council has adopted a Local Nature Recovery Plan and a Hackney Parks and Green Spaces Strategy. Millfields Users Group supports these initiatives and takes an active role in helping create wild spaces in the park, building habitat, extending the buzzline, planting trees and hedges, pond-building.

The area behind the electricity sub-station is one of the best areas of Millfields for biodiversity,
especially waterside habitat. It is also where the Millfields User Group has planted, and maintains,
what we believe to be Hackney’s largest community orchard, comprising over fifty trees,
many chosen as local London and Essex varieties or because of their rarity or heritage
interest.

MUG and the Council previously drew up a plan in March 2011 for improving biodiversity in Millfields Park. A lot of this work is ongoing. Details can be found at: Management and Implementation plan.

Millfields lies in the Lee Valley Regional Park, so while Hackney Council manages Millfields, the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority has an interest too. LVRPA drafts a Park Development Framework every ten years or so. In 2011 LVRPA consulted on its plan for an area including Millfields, and MUG made a submission, as well as taking part in drafting a submission by the Lea Valley Federation. There is a downloadable copy of MUG’s submssion.