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Walpole Friends

  Walpole Park, Pitzhanger Manor and Lammas Park

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Vivienne Cane-Honeysett
Chair - Walpole Friends

  February 2012

Hello Walpole Friends

I trust that you are all keeping snug and warm during this cold spell. Our parks looked lovely of course when the snow first fell but its looking a bit slushy now so I'll be glad to see it gone. I'm looking forward to the signs of spring now!.

Well done those of you who were able to come along to the council's meeting in January where they presented the Masterplan for Walpole Park. You will see that the plan is available through this website, by clicking on the Masterplan Walpole Pk Jan 2012 tag. You still have a chance to have your say and you are invited to do so by emailing the address given at the end of the presentation.

The works on the park will not begin until around September so be ready to see some substantial changes starting to take place at that time.

In the meantime, the council is recruiting the new Park Manager and Education Officer and will be selecting all the contractors needed to carry out these works.

The main area of excitement is the Rickyard, to which you will see a vast improvement, allowing a great deal more volunteering opportunities if you want to get involved with working in the local community. We are to have a volunteers' room - great idea - where we can make tea and coffee and eat our sandwiches together whilst we chat.
 

 

 

 

  

  

 

Master Plan for Walpole Park click here to download

Master Plan

Swan Lake in Walpole Park is Surveyed, Cleaned and the Pumps Fixed

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Lammas Park Playgrounds and Other Areas Refurbished and Updated

How to contact the Met Police Walpole Safer Neighbourhood Team
David Aldous PCSO - based at Sainsbury's, 2 - 14 Melbourne Avenue, West Ealing, London W13 9BP
Telephone: 020 8721 2949 or 020 7161 9174
Email: david.aldous@met.police.uk  or walpole.snt@met.police.uk 

NON EMERGENCY POLICE NO: 101 - IN AN EMERGENCY ALWAYS DIAL 999

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Our Outreach Officer is collating a list of all the various ways in which local residents can volunteer in the parks and she will be letting us know what they all are soon.

Watch this space for some exciting opportunities to become an active and invaluable member of your community.

Looking forward to this year, we have the very exciting Queen's Diamond Jubilee coming up in June. I am trying to get special permission to set up a 'street' party in Walpole Park and hope that many of you will join in, together with as of your family as you like. We will all bring our own food and drink - as with all street parties - but I hope to be able to organise some tables and chairs and entertainment. I have sent in an application to the council and am awaiting a response. Here's hoping!

Our bee-interest group is growing very fast as we were mentioned in the Ealing Gazette a couple of weeks ago and, from that, we have another six new members all wanting to help with the Walpole Friends bees. Our bees will arrive in April or May and they will be housed in the Rickyard.

One of the concerns we have at the moment on behalf of both Walpole and Lammas Parks is the fact that the council has voted to stop locking the parks. We think this is a bad idea for a number of reasons.....mostly around security (of the Manor and the parks themselves), nuisance (late night parties in the park) and safety (people walking across the park at night thinking its deemed safe if its isn't locked!).

We have put our concerns to the council and await their response.

Vivienne Cane-Honeysett

Chair