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Street Reps Meetings
Street Reps Meetings
Our Street Reps Meetings take place every 6 weeks or so and any member of the Residents' Association is welcome. Our next meeting will take place on Monday 7 August 2023 at 8pm. Please get in touch if you'd like to attend or check the noticeboard for details.
2304 Spring Meeting Minutes.docx2306 Street Reps Meeting Minutes.docx2301 Street Reps.docx2302 Street Reps.docx2208 Street Reps Minutes.docx2211 AGM.docx2205 Street Reps Minutes.docx2207 Street Reps minutes.docx2201 Street Reps Minutes.docx2203 Street Reps.docxAnnual Rose Garden Event 2022
Annual Rose Garden Event 2022
This year we're going using the Queen's Platinum Jubilee as the perfect excuse to reconnect as a community and we're very excited! Thanks to Margaret who has been organising everyone. Big pleas for:
Helping set up and clearing up on the day
Bringing along any tables and chairs (and gazebos if the British weather doesn't hold out!)
Red, white and blue decorations - we're hoping to get a grant for bunting, balloons and table cloths, but may not get anything!
Any garden games to entertain the kids and young at heart.
Spread the word!
Further details below.
Jubilee Party 2022-06-05.pdfSummer Meeting 2021 - report by Janet Sacks
Summer Meeting 2021 - report by Janet Sacks
On Thursday 24 June 2021 Katie Boyles gave us a wonderful talk. She based it on her own discovery of Warren Farm, starting by recording species. One day in Warren Farm she had seen a man with a clipboard. He was an ecologist for Queens Park Rangers who were going to build football pitches on Warren Farm. According to him, Warren Farm was of no ecological importance. She couldn’t believe this so decided to record species to prove him wrong.
Only she didn’t know the names of the species she was recording and gave them names like Fred and Greta (I wonder why…) But a neighbour came to her help – retired Peter Edwards who had worked at Kew. He divided Warren Farm into 12 areas and they started to record species of plants and insects in each one. Gradually more and more people joined – ornithologists, entymologists, botanists, and organisations like Kew Gardens and the London Natural History Society became supporters.
But what to do with all this information? There is an organisation called GIGL (Greenspace Information for Greater London) which is the environmental record centre for Greater London. It collates information about wildlife, parks, nature reserves, gardens and other open spaces. When Katie asked what species they had for Warren Farm, the answer was ‘None’. So she handed them a list of over a thousand species of plants, including several rare species, and over 80 different species of birds, including the red-listed skylarks, little owls and migrating wrynecks. And hundreds of insects, some of which seemed to like living among the derelict buildings.
BBC London became interested in this story and once the Warren Farm Nature Reserve had appeared on national TV, Ealing Council began to prick up its ears. Inspired by a young conservationist Kabir Kaul, the Brent River and Canal Society asked Ealing Council to work with them in creating Warren Farm Nature Reserve, obtaining Local Nature Reserve (LNR) status for Warren Farm, Jubilee Meadow, Blackberry Corner, Trumper’s Field and Fox Meadow. For the future, the land owned by Imperial College and the Earl of Jersey’s Field could be added, taking down the fences and creating one large Local Nature Reserve comprised of meadow habitats, with Warren Farm at its centre. No fences, more trees in Long Wood and connectivity for plants and insects across the site – what a wonderful vision!
To help make this dream come true, go to the website and sign the petition: https://www.warrenfarmnaturereserve.co.uk
Spring Walk 2021 - report by Janet Sacks
Spring Walk 2021 - report by Janet Sacks
We were met there by a group from WFNR with Katie Boyles. In all there were about 30 of us led by Phil Belman, who excelled himself in showing us things we didn’t know about, such as the hobbies nesting in the tallest tree in Bunny Park and the Benbow Willow in Boles meadow used for making baskets.
Phil thanked the Rangers for making the gate to WF passable and for remedial work on Warren Farm to help skylarks. He said that the Tesco-funded scheme ‘Help an Ealing Owl’ had resulted in one of the successful Little Owl boxes – and later we discovered two Little Owl chicks on a branch calling (sounds like a hiss!)
We learned how to pick out acid grassland areas (red from Sheeps Sorrel) and neutral grassland (flower rich and green) at WF, and heard about ideas for what to do with the unsafe redundant buildings at WF and how varied the wildlife is that uses t he area around them.
If you want to hear and see more, come to the Summer Meeting at the Brent Valley Golf Club on Thursday 24th July at 8pm! There you will hear from Katie Boyles and others about the vision for WF’s future and other work in the Brent River Park.
And sign the petition! http://www.brcs.org.uk/brcs-vision-for-warren-farm/
Newsletter Archive 2020-2021
Newsletter Archive 2020-2021
Our AGM and Street Reps Meeting minutes for 2020-21 are below
2111 AGM Minutes.docx2111 Street Reps Minutes.docx2109 Street Reps Minutes.docx210721 Street Reps.docx20210519 Minutes.pdf200907 Street Reps Meeting.docx200803 Street Reps Minutes.docxPage updated
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