Come and help your neighbours make our park a nicer place. We'll be tidying up the flower beds in Wray Crescent and doing a bit of mulching too. Bring your family and friends - all welcome!
When: Saturday 1st November, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Where: mee…
An article in the Gazette about the fencing in the park. http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/stumped_and_angry_finsbury_park_residents_want_cricket_fence_hit_for_six_1_3804436
The council are keeping this all very quiet, no public meeting this…
We need a project manager! We have a range of good ideas and various offers of help but no one to get it done. A normal problem in life! Im speaking slightly out of turn but it's possible we could pay someone to take this up - to be agreed formal…
Dan's fund raising plus some cash from John Jones and the council Local Initiatives Fund means that have raised nearly £6kUnfortunately its taken a while to get the plans off the ground. permission doesn't seem to be a problem, its more about getti…
A quick update re the proposed netting in Wray Crescent Park.The council are holding a 'drop-in session' this Wednesday in the park from 2.00 until 8.00.
Apparently its not a consultation, just to inform us of what the council plan to do!
Please com…
Friends of Wray Crescent news:
- Tomorrow night: meeting to make plans, including for new play equipment, 7.30 at N19 Pub (Sussex Way) Please let me know if you have any suggestions for events etc? and by the way, does anyone know a builder/contra…
An update on the proposed Cricket netting in the park:
The council recently gave planning permission for a seasonal installation of 10m high posts and netting around approximately 2/3 of the park as protection from cricket balls. The fence is go…
I can report that unfortunately the Planning Application for Wray Crescent park cricket netting was passed by the Planning Committee last night.Conversations at the committee and email correspondence led to a number of last minute changes which have…
I managed to get a good load of the cut down trees to build a natural play feature in Wray Crescent playground, and believe that the rest of them have gone to another park and a school.Some kind of a silver lining.It seemed like we needed extra mone…
The Wray Crescent gardening on Saturday morning coincides with the Tollington Ward community event at IAMS - gardening, talk to your councillors, food stalls, bouncy castles and advice. All good!
To take a slightly different tack - isn't it amazing that John Jones don't recognise the commercial value of 10 mature street trees around their development?
We know that they bring the 'softer' (and maybe more debatable) benefits of; shading/urban…
yes, all properly constituted and all thatas well as the festival we raise money for planting up the flower beds and we've got the council to add 2 swings from locally allocated cash - arriving sooncome along for the gardening on the 19th
A bigger question is what would we like £90k to be spend on anyway, assuming it is available? When elected, our councillors agreed with the idea of a re-consultation on the hours of operation of CPZ J. It has the longest hours in the borough, long…