Communities to have a greater say in protecting trees, Government consultation for better protection of UK trees. Deadline 28 Feb 2019
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/forestry/protecting-trees-and-woodlands/
Sheffield residents objecting to street tree felling
You can leave your real Christmas tree at Mountsfield Park – George Lane entrance – SE6 1AN.
Thanks to Lewisham Council and Glendale, the Christmas trees are converted to mulch – perfect for trees in parks and street trees across the Borough!
We use a lot of the recycled Christmas trees to mulch the newly planted avenue trees at Mountsfield Park.
Please come and help plant trees in Mountsfield Park – midday, Sunday 2nd December 2018. This tree planting event will be the first of the 2018/2019 winter tree planting events at Mountsfield Park. Volunteers should bring a spade if you have one and wear boots and gloves if you would like to plant a tree. We will be meeting in the Mountsfield community garden at midday and planting very young saplings near to the childrens’ play area. All welcome!
More information – contact: mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
Please complete the Lewisham’s Parks and Open Spaces Online Consultation – Deadline Sunday 28th October 2018
https://consultation.lewisham.gov.uk/environment/newparks/
Your views and opinions are important as they will help the Council to make the right decisions.
Lewisham Council will use the information from this survey to influence the Council’s new Local Plan and Parks & Open Spaces Strategy.
Current parks and open spaces strategy:
Lewisham parks and open spaces strategy 2012 -2017
Lewisham parks and open spaces study 2010
Lewisham parks and open spaces maintenance specification
For more information email: nick.pond@lewisham.gov.uk
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Friends of Mountsfield Park AGM 2018 – 10.30am, Sunday 7th October Station Hotel pub, games room, Staplehurst Rd SE13 5NB.
Please open this link to nomination-form-for-election-to-executive-group-2018 for those seeking election to the Friends committee. Forms must be submitted no later than 5pm on Friday 5th October 2018 to mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
If you can’t make the AGM but want to be involved in FoMP, please do get in touch – there are lots of ways in which you can help out and we would be grateful for any support you can offer.
Friends of Mountsfield Park AGM Annual Report
“Lewisham Council wants to ensure the borough’s parks and open spaces meet the needs of Lewisham residents now and in the future. This survey is seeking your views on what the key priorities should be.
Anything that doesn’t look right at Mountsfield Park e.g. litter, dog poo, can be reported to the Lewisham Council via the @FixMyStreet mobile phone app. Reports from FixMyStreet go to Lewisham Council via @LoveLewisham, so that they can be fixed. The app can be downloaded at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mysociety.FixMyStreet
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fixmystreet/id297456545
Lewisham People’s Day
Friends of Mountsfield Park will be in the community garden at People’s Day 7 July 2018 12pm-4pm. Please come over and see us if you have any concerns about Mountsfield Park or suggestions.
More information – mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
“People’s Day 2018 is on Saturday 7 July and is south east London’s longest-running free festival.
It is a celebration of music, art, craft and community, which attracts over 25,000 visitors. At the 34th People’s Day on 7 July in Catford’s Mountsfield Park, you can expect hundreds of performances across seven stages, craft stalls and great food and drink. Find out about this year’s headliners.”
Many thanks Derek for this postcard image of the Mountsfield Park Bandstand with the theatre behind and the following collected memories!
DC The theatre was constructed from “corrugated metal, surrounded by chestnut fencing”.
CW “I can remember a stage with a fence around where they used to put chairs out in the summer.You had to pay to sit and watch the shows or you could do like we did and lean on the fence! They also had those kids films shown from the back of a lorry which was parked next to the stage”.
CW “We had such fun in Mountsfield Park. We played in the fields, watched all sorts of shows at the theatre, children’s events, concert parties, and competitions”.
WR “I remember standing by the fence watching the shows when I was a child in the 50s”.
Mountsfield Park bandstand and theatre behind
Orchard and Grape Vine Pruning Workshop Event at Mountsfield Park Community Garden with James Hazlerigg-Kinlay, 1 – 2.45pm, 18th February 2018 Book here for Eventbrite tickets –
During this gardening skills training workshop local Forest School leader, garden designer and horticulturist James Hazlerigg-Kinlay will demonstrate pruning roses, fruit trees and grape vines. The pruning will be very much a hands-on demonstration outside on a number of roses, young fruit trees and vines in the community garden. Bring your secateurs (sharpened if possible) and you will tackle some pruning so that you can take home some new skills. Tea, coffee and homemade cake will be provided.
All profits will be used to pay for new fruit trees and replacement plants in the community garden.
Please join us and plant avenue trees next to the main path at Mountsfield Park between the George Lane and Brownhill Road entrances – All welcome!
The additional community tree planting events will be 11am – 1pm approx, Sunday 8th and 15th April 2018.
Please wear boots, gloves and bring a strong spade if you have one.
Glendale have suppled us with a variety of rootballed heavy standard deciduous trees. The trees will grow to a large size and are suitable for growing in London clay and with an exposed aspect. Many of the avenue tree planting species that we have chosen are better suited to endure areas of heavily compacted soil that we have at Mountsfield Park.
You will find us during the community tree planting events along the main path between the George Lane and Brownhill Road entrances. The main path is the red line on the map of Mountsfield Park above. The green symbols represent tree planting locations.
Health walking is really easy. You do a 5-minute stroll to warm up, at least 20 minutes at a brisk pace and a 5-minute stroll to cool down. A ‘brisk pace’ will be different for everybody. Walk so you feel a little warmer, breathe a bit heavier and your heart is pumping a bit faster. you need to be able to have a chat and not be too out of breath.
Go at a pace that is right for you – the walks are suitable for people of all abilities. Come when you are able to.
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Originally posted on Nature Conservation Lewisham: Froggary on Blackheath ? Please see attached the Nature’s Gym programme for January – March 2018. Our first session back will be on Thursday 11th January at Ladywell Fields. A post Christmas wade! You maybe interested to know that we’ve had over 600 volunteers attending over 50 sessions this…
Friends of Mountsfield Park Carols in the Park, Saturday 16th December from 2pm, please put it in your diary and invite the grandparents!
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Please support the Friends of Mountsfield Park funding campaign for fox proof litter bins:
https://www.spacehive.com/mountsfieldpark
Thanks to the Thomas Tallis School Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteers and FoMP for planting trees at Mountsfield Park this winter. The trees were generously donated by Woodland Trust, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), #idigtrees and @OVOEnergy. We planted hundreds of oak, hawthorn, birch, alder, rowan, hornbeam, willow, poplar…
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School at Mountsfield Park, Catford SE6
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School planting trees at Mountsfield Park, Catford SE6
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School planting trees at Mountsfield Park, near to Mountfield Close
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School planting TCV/ @OVOEnergy fruit trees at Mountsfield Park community gardens
“The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee report on public parks warns that parks are at a tipping point and face a period of decline with potentially severe consequences unless their vital contribution to areas such as public health, community integration and climate change mitigation is recognised.
The Public parks report highlights considerable challenges for the sector including reduced council spending, with parks management budgets cut by up to 97 per cent, the need for parks to compete with other services for funding, and planning policy not giving them enough weight, particularly as a result of pressures to increase housing supply.
The Committee call on councils to publish strategic plans, which recognise the value of parks beyond leisure and recreation and set out how they will be managed to maximise their contribution to wider…
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Thanks to @GlendaleLew, the London Marathon Charitable Trust, Lewisham Rushey Green Assembly and @FenlandLeisureP for our new trim trail at Mountsfield Park, Catford.
@FenlandLeisureP installing the new timber trim trail equipment at Mountsfield Park. Thanks to Lewisham Rushey Green Assembly for part funding the equipment and Judith from Glendale for fundraising £15,000 from the London Marathon Trust!
The cafe! The trim trail! Christmas! Volunteering opportunities! Fox-proof bins! Accessible picnic benches!
It’s all go at Mountsfield Park. Read all about it here…
So lets be honest, 2016 has been a strange old year…
But it’s Christmas! And never ones to waste an opportunity to eat, drink, and be merry, we at FOMP will be throwing our annual Carols in the Park event at 2pm on Saturday December 17th 2016.
There will be music, mince pies, and mulled wine, and the chance to spend a magical afternoon with friends and neighbours.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Rory, Maria, Carrie, Ros, Rivke, Max, and Gareth
FOMP Executive
Cllr James Walsh – Rushey Green Ward “Let’s work together, be ambitious and get some new pitches in Lewisham…”
Next Friends of Mountsfield Park Meeting Monday 24 October 2016, Hither Green Baptist Church, 7-8pm Theodore Rd, London SE13 6HT.
All welcome!
Please Download the FixMyStreet mobile phone app and report litter, fly-tipping, dog litter etc. that you see in the park that you want removed ( Android / Apple)
If you see any problems at Mountsfield Park contact Glendale 0208 318 3986 or speak to the park keeper on Mondays and Saturdays
If you see any problems at Mountsfield Park contact Glendale 0208 318 3986
Just a quick note to let you know we will be starting the footpath works this week in Mountsfield Park.
We will be starting around the back of the community garden by the Lodge gate and go from there.
I will put some notices up on the gates today advising of works and the need to shut either gate along Stainton Road at some point during the works.
We want a cafe in Mountsfield Park. We have been campaigning for a cafe for years, and have been promised one by Lewisham Council – including as part of the Council redevelopment of the park that created the Community Garden and revamped the play area. But the Council were unable to follow through on their plan to build a cafe at that time. Since then, we have worked with them to identify some funding – £50k – to launch a tender process to encourage an outside investor to build a cafe in the park.
A viable and attractive cafe plan is in front of Lewisham Council for approval right now – made by a local businessman who has worked closely with the Friends of Mountsfield Park. You can see the plans and some pictures of the new cafe here.
But the planning department at the Council is making unreasonable demands:
If Lewisham Council turns down the current proposal – for what we think are spurious reasons – it could be years before another option is available and the money we fought to get the Council to commit to support the project – £50k – will be at risk.
We want the Council to take an intelligent approach, to look at the benefits a cafe would bring to Mountsfield Park: it will bring in revenue, encourage people to stay in the park longer and enjoy the Community Garden and play area, improve security by making the park more attractive to families, provide a place for dog walkers to get a cup of coffee, and it will mean that maintained toilet facilities are available in the park. These are far more important that a handful of planters!
We have written to the Planning Department to outline our concerns, but here’s what you can do to help:
We want a cafe. The park deserves a cafe. It needs functioning toilet facilities. A local businessman is willing to invest to create an amazing cafe. Short-sighted planning decisions shouldn’t stop it happening.
People’s Day at Mountsfield Park 9 July 2016
We now have a proposed design for the new Mountsfield Park trim trail – click on the ‘zeemaps.com‘ link below to see preferred locations for the new trim trail equipment and then click on each location on the map to see an image of what is proposed (satellite/aerial view works best).
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Thanks to London Marathon Charitable Trust and Rushey Green Assembly for funding the new trim trail equipment at Mountsfield Park which will be available for adults and young people. We’re really pleased that both funds have chosen to invest in our park, and also grateful to Glendale for their funding bid to London Marathon Charitable Trust and supporting these applications. Your views and ideas are essential and will help us to make sure the trail is popular and well used! Please email us at mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
We have been campaigning for a new cafe in the park for years, and we are delighted that the clear wishes of so many in the local community are that much closer to being realised. The journey to this point has been lengthy and sometimes frustrating, with disappointments along the way. But it now feels like we are in touching distance of getting a cafe that will serve the needs of all park users – families using the redeveloped playground, weekend gardeners in the community garden, daily dog walkers, picnic goers, joggers, and many more.
Your Executive has written to the Council to put on record our firm support for this proposal – you can view our letter here: Mountsfield cafe reference DC-16-095961
We encourage you to write to the Council to express your support as well.
You can view the planning documents here:
http://planning.lewisham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=_LEWIS_DCAPR_83187
We’ll keep you posted as the proposal progresses.
Rory, Maria, Carrie, Ros, Rivke, Max, and Gareth
FOMP Executive
Mountsfield Park community gardening event Sunday 5 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm:
All welcome!
Thanks to Roger and Alice for the fabulous up-cycled mud kitchen installed at the community garden 15th May 2016!
The mud kitchen was installed on the same day as Teddy Bears’ Picnic 2016 at Mountsfield Park.
You know how much we in the Friends of Mountsfield Park love a community party?! And our friends, neighbours, and park users love them too!
So please do join us at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic on Sunday 15 May 2016 from 1pm. There’ll be children’s crafts and faceprinting, music from the Macaroon Mamas and Sing Along Sally, Forest School fun, and amazing food and drink from the Truly Splendid Pop Up Vintage Tea Room, Greekelicious by Julia,and FOMP’s licensed bar.
Don’t forget your Teddy Bear!*
We had fantastic news yesterday from our friends at Glendale who have secured a £15,000 grant from the London Marathon Charitable Trust. Combined with the £2,000 awarded to FOMP by Rushey Green Assembly, we now have £17,000 to pay for new trim trail equipment at Mountsfield Park which will be available for adult and young adult park users. We’re really pleased that both funds have chosen to invest in our park, and also grateful to Glendale for supporting these applications.
The next step is to consult with park users about the sort of equipment they would like to see in the park, so we’ll be circulating a survey really soon. Your views and ideas are essential and will help us to make sure the the trail is popular and well used.
Watch this space!
…. or rather Mountsfield Park’s Community Garden on Sunday 15 May 2016 from 1pm, you and your teddy bear will find lots of treats!
Friends of Mountsfield Park are once again hosting a Teddy Bear’s Picnic as part of the Hither Green Festival – check out the festival brochure for other fantastic events. Join us for:
And to sustain parents, friends, children, and teddy bears alike, refreshments will be provided by Greekelicious by Julia, the Truly Splendid Pop Up Vintage Tea Room, and FOMP’s licensed bar.
We’re looking forward to meeting you and your furry friend!
Thanks to GoodGym.org and FoMP volunteers for our new pumpkin bed at Mountsfield Park community garden SE6.
@GoodGym and Friends of Mountsfield Park community garden volunteers shoveled and barrowed a huge pile of compost to make our new pumpkin patch next to the poly tunnel. And many thanks to the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association for the funds to buy the 20 cu/m of of PAS 100 recycled green waste compost from Glendale Lewisham
Winning Mountsfield Park cafe design, appearance and size of the cafe building may change during the planning application process. Due to be open for business spring 2017
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Great news! Forries Education will be running Forest School sessions in Mountsfield Park on Tuesdays starting in the summer term.
Tree planting at Mountsfield Park
Tree planting at Mountsfield Park Sunday 13th March 9.30 – 11.00am. Meet at Mountsfield Park community garden SE6 1AN at 9.30am. All welcome!
For more information contact mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
Sunday morning litter picking events at Mountsfield Park 28th Feb, 6th March and 13th of March, 11am – 12pm. Meet at Mountsfield Park community garden 11am . We will supply litter picking tools and large bags.
Contact mountsfieldpark@gmail.com for more information
All welcome!
Report any fly-tipping, litter, dog litter in Lewisham (including Mountsfield Park) using the FixMyStreet app
FixMyStreet mobile phone app Apple download
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Friends of Mountsfield Park will be planting roses at Stainton’s rose garden, Mountsfield Park, next to the community garden 9.30 – 11.30am Sunday 7th February 2016 . Thanks to Glendale for supplying the roses. All welcome to come help us dig the planting holes and plant the roses!
A bigger mini brass band!!! We would LOVE experienced trombone, baritone or other brass players to join the mini brass band for Mountsfield’s Christmas singing on 16th Dec.
Please E-mail mytrumpetandme@gmail.com if that’s you, and please tell your brass-playing friends and family.
Well done Lewisham Council, Glendale and the Lewisham parks group volunteers for maintaining and improving our parks and green spaces in 2018!
https://glhearn-publications.cld.bz/Good-Parks-for-London-2018
Lewisham is the top borough for its parks and green spaces service in ‘Good Parks for London 2018′
The London borough parks services were assessed by the Parks for London charity for ‘Good Parks For London 2018‘ . The scores above are for the following performance criteria:
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Deadline for Lewisham’s online transport consultation Saturday 24th Nov 2018
https://consultation.lewisham.gov.uk/planning/lip/consultation/
https://consultation.lewisham.gov.uk/planning/lip/
