Friends of Trendlewood Community Park
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Presentation given by Pat Gilbert and Andrew Town - Green Connect 2, 6th October
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Friends of Trendlewood Community Park
- 2. Trendlewood Community Park Management Committee The Committee consist of • North Somerset Council Ward Councillor (Chair) • Two representatives of Friends of Trendlewood Park • Two representatives from Nailsea Town Council • North Somerset Council Officer The purpose of the committee is to work towards • Improving, conserving, supporting and protecting the Park for the enjoyment of all visitors •Ensuring the vision and policies of the management plan are followed
- 4. Friends of Trendlewood Park Constitution • contribute to the protection and enhancement of the park as wildlife habitats and a community recreational resource • promote the park as urban woodland and grassland and encourage its responsible use • raise awareness of and preserve the geology, industrial archaeology and landscape history of the park
Notas do Editor
- Park established in 2011 by North Somerset Council in partnership with a local group of volunteers who formed into ‘the Friends of Trendlewood Park’
- Make up of management committee and its key objectives
- Friends of Trendlewood Park logo
- Friends of Trendlewood Park constitution
- Park map. 5.5 hectares made up of 1.5 hectares of woodland and 4 hectares of grassland, trees and hedges.
- Review of habitats within the park. Nowhere wood is 1.5 hectares of mainly secondary woodland established on a former pennant sandstone quarry.
- Nowhere Wood
- As well as considerable wildlife value the wood has a number of interesting geological and historical features including the old sandstone quarry face
- There is a large community playground that supports the council ‘play strategy’
- Some parts previously shaved by regular gang mowing have been established as grassland areas
- The park has large good amounts of open spaces with grassy areas, trees and hedges that give wonderful seasonal contrasts
- An important aspect is the involvement of the community in developing the park. Here volunteers are supporting the local Transition Town Nailsea group planting apple trees in the park
- Followed by a wassailing event to ensure the integrity of the harvest
- Volunteers from the Forest of Avon Scheme planting a long section of native hedge
- Wild flower plugs and seeds have been planted in selected areas. The red campions were particularly successful.
- Also there has been natural regeneration of wild flowers like these cuckoo flowers in areas where regular mowing has stopped.
- Orange tip butterflies have taken advantage of the proliferation of cuckoo flowers, one of their main food plants
- Managing the hedge margins more sensitively encourages a variety of wild flowers
- Allowing some nettles to flourish benefits these Peacock caterpillars
- Grasshoppers inhabit grassy areas in huge numbers
- The increased numbers of insects encourages visits from predators such as this southern hawker dragonfly