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Wild and Edible Surrey Canal Celebration Lunch
Thank you to everyone who came along including Art in the Park who created the tree stencils, Barry Hargrove who helped grind the rocket gathered in Burgess Park for the pasta pesto and the Friends of Burgess Park team who have worked so hard to complete the Surrey Canal walk tree walk guide.
It gives information on the 30 new trees planted. Recipes and seasonal
description can be down-loaded direct to your phone with the
innovative QR code signs on the trees. Plus, there are signs and path stencils along the route, downloadable copies of the Surrey Canal map on FOBP website, as well as printed copies in the Park Life Cafe, Chumleigh Gardens, the sports centre and Peckham Library.
The project funded by The Big Lottery will enhance the variety of plants in the Surrey Canal Walk, providing food for insects and birds as well as opportunities for people to forage.
Burgess Park Revitalisation - what's happening
The next walkabout in the park will be on Saturday, 19 May. Contact Ruth Miller to book your place ruth.miller@southwark.gov.uk Latest projected re-opening date is late June/early July. The new play area and car park next to Chumleigh Gardens opened on 31 March.
Planning application BMX Track Burgess Park 11/AP/3764has been successful.The council hope to open the facility at the beginning of 2013. Construction will probably start in the autumn.
Most of the planting will be take place in Feb/March except that at St. Georges Gardens which will have trees and hedges planted in Feb/March and then the remainder laid as amenity grass. Later in the year (Oct/Nov) the herbaceous plants and wildflowers will be planted at St. Georges and on the Albany Road mounds.
Park access Parts of the park will be out of use to allow the revitalisation project to be carried out. A large section of Burgess Park west of Wells Way and the designated area east of Wells Way are fenced off and closed to the public.
What is staying open and what is closing according to the Southwark Council website:
"The council wants to make sure work at the park is safe and secure, presents no danger whatsoever to the public, and that all the works are completed on time.
The areas which are still open:
Chumleigh Gardens including the cafe, 1st place Children's centre, Art in the Park and Southwark Tigers club house.
All official sports areas - i.e. football and tennis centres, rugby and cricket pitches off Cobourg Road and the outdoor gym on Albany Road.
The adventure playground/children's services area at the junction of Wells Way and Albany Road
Extensions of the main park like Surrey Canal Walk, and the green space by Old Kent Road and Glengall Ave
Temporary closure of Community garden site at Glengall Wharf.
From Monday 30th April 2012 there will be landscapers on site. The fence
will go up and the growing mounds will be constructed. After that, the
BTCV will be building raised beds and a pergola. It should take about 6
weeks and for the duration the site will be locked for site safety and
security. Once major work is done the site will be open to every one,
every day.
Work sessions
There will still be Sunday work sessions between 1 and 3pm every Sunday so please come along - there are many more things to build and make.
Picture Burgess Park competition organised by the Friends of Burgess Park.
The
park is undergoing a major transformation - the aim of the
competition is to help record what Burgess Park means to locals and how
we are affected by the changes, collecting the best images showing
Burgess Park as it is now, as it develops and what it will become.
We
are inviting all local photographers - pro and amateur, old and young -
to send pictures and/or short films (max 2 minutes); we'll also be
organising a series of community events to mark key moments in the
competition.
We started with the theme of 'Our memories' and the other suggested themes are: nature, sport and play, art and the future.
E-mail your pictures to friendsofburgesspark@gmail.com
See them on www.pictureburgesspark.com.
The
e-mail subject line becomes the title of the blog post so it is best to
be descriptive (e.g. subject line: Memory: an autumn morning); and any
text you put in the body of the e-mail becomes the body of the blog
post - it's a good idea to put a bit of 'blurb' with each post to give
them context (e.g. This is a picture of the sun rising over Burgess
Park on a cold October morning - it made me think of the memory theme
as it took me back to cold winter of last year)
In the summer of 2012, at the completion of the revitalisation, we will select the best photos for a final exhibition and a book.
The Burgess Park Food Project has opened a new community garden in Burgess Park. On the site of Glengall / Derwent
Wharf at the top of the Surrey Canal Walk, a group has been
established to run the project.
The aim of the group and the garden is to promote healthy, local and
fresh food, and will be a growing project open to all, a place to learn
and share skills related to growing, food, permaculture, sustainability
and related subjects.
Wild and Edible
The
park is undergoing a major transformation - the aim of the
competition is to help record what Burgess Park means to locals and how
we are affected by the changes, collecting the best images showing
Burgess Park as it is now, as it develops and what it will become.