Post Tagged with: "Green Issues"
Apple day at the Mill
On 1 October we held a hugely successful Apple Day at the Mill as part of the BAG Garden Squad that meets at the Mill every first Saturday of the month from 11am to 1pm. Early that day we collected the apples from the beer garden of the Ferry Boat Inn Pub on Ferry Lane, [...]
Annual bulb planting day
BAG Garden squad held their annual bulb planting event on the 5th of November. Thirteen keen gardens gathered together to plant 650 bulbs, of which 300 were donated by Waltham Forest council. In previous years we have planted bulbs in Coppermill Lane, Edward Road, the playground in Coppermill Lane and in front of Stoneydown park. [...]
Maintaining our trees
Local residents rightly value the trees that line our streets, and many have expressed concern to BAG at the quality of the councils maintenance of our trees. BAG have previously contacted the council regarding the erratic pollarding of trees, bracket fungus, and the failure to replace felled trees. Below are the latest two emails from [...]
BAG’s response to developers proposal for BHL2
After the recent presentation of plans for the BHL2 section of Blackhorse Lane re-development, BAG has sent the official response of our residents group to Harry Hudson of Green Issues. We look forward to hearing their reply to residents concerns. Download: Word doc: BAG’s response to developers proposal for BHL2 Feedback from the Blackhorse Action [...]
Let the developers of BHL2 know your views
Here’s hoping you all had a fantastic Christmas – great food, company and, who knows, even useful presents! If you didn’t have the opportunity to go to the exhibition and comment on the plans developers are proposing for BHL2, you can still do it by sending your views by e-mail, fax or post to Harry [...]
Green Issues’ exhibition boards from last week’s consultation
Green Issues have posted their exhibition boards from last week’s consultation on their website. You can see them here. You can also download a pdf version of them here. It gives some useful explanations. For those who were unable to make it, it’s worth taking a look – you won’t really appreciate what is proposed [...]
BAG’s vision for the regeneration of BHL2 site
Just uploaded a .pdf file of the ‘vision’ for the BHL2 site. This, basically, summarises the results of a brainstorming session on the 12th November at which Members spoke of the sorts of things they would like to see on the site. Read it here. Obviously, this is pretty much a wish list, but it’s [...]
Green Issues Exibition, 13th, 14th and 15th December
Green Issues, the agents of the developers, are holding a three day exhibition of their plans for the proposed development of housing on BHL2. Anybody with an interest on what gets put up on that land should go a long and take a look, and feed their views into the process. They’re spreading the [...]
Meeting with representatives of the BHL2 developers
Members of the Acting Committee had a meeting this evening with people from Green Issues and from DP9, the developers’ PR agents and planning ‘fixers’, respectively. It went pretty well, on the whole: they were polite and we learned some fascinating stuff. Here are the key facts, some of which are alarming… Just housing :: [...]






