Category Archives: Wyncham Stream

Environment Forum submits FOI request on wildlife site management

Posted on 07/06/2015 by Chris Rose

Request for basic information unanswered after 3 months. Group resorts to FOI request so it can talk to Councillors about ongoing management problems in relation to wildlife.    Those readers who have been involved in Bexley Natural Environment Forum, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Bexley Council, Biodiversity Action Plan, BNEF, Budget, Environment, Hollyoak Wood Park, Open spaces, River Shuttle, vegetation management, Wyncham Stream | Leave a comment

Friends of the Shuttle takes another step forward

Posted on 31/05/2015 by Chris Rose

Friends of the Shuttle was set up on the 9 May 2013 to protect and enhance the ecology and biodiversity of the River Shuttle.  This was made possible thanks to very generous financial help from Thames 21 which enabled the group to buy … Continue reading →

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FotS announces additional events for Shuttle and Danson

Posted on 16/05/2015 by Chris Rose

Friends of the Shuttle, the environmental/wildlife action group for the River Shuttle, Wyncham Stream and Danson Park (the water from the lake flows into the Shuttle in Bexley Park Woods) has announced a number of additional events for the next … Continue reading →

Posted in Bird watching, Danson Park, Friends of the Shuttle, Gardening for wildlife, Gardens, Old English Garden, Parks, River Shuttle, Rivers, Volunteering, Wyncham Stream | Leave a comment

Environment Forum seeks to get to root causes of poor site management. Request for underlying plans yet to be answered.

Posted on 21/03/2015 by Chris Rose

Bexley Natural Environment Forum has become increasingly exasperated with the way may open spaces in the Borough have been managed, the lack of biodiversity awareness and joined-up thinking and the obvious potential for enhancing the wildlife value of sites whilst … Continue reading →

Posted in Bexley Council, Biodiversity Action Plan, BNEF, Environment, Hollyoak Wood Park, Open spaces, Parks, River Shuttle, SINC, vegetation management, Wyncham Stream | Leave a comment

FotS cleans Shuttle and Wyncham in rain and wake of Council’s ‘extreme maintenance’

Posted on 26/02/2015 by Chris Rose

At FotS’ latest litter pick yesterday [Thursday 26th Feb] along the Hollyoak Wood section of the Shuttle and the adjoining Wyncham stream, volunteers worked stoically in pouring rain to extract 16 bags of rubbish, two safes and assorted bits of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bexley Council, Environment, Friends of the Shuttle, River Thames, Volunteering, Wyncham Stream | 2 Comments

Provisional checklist and account of Bexley mammals published at ‘Bexley Wildlife’ website

Posted on 24/02/2015 by Chris Rose

Mammals as a group are poorly recorded in London and their distribution is not well understood, partly because many species are small and largely nocturnal. Information about the status of mammal species in Bexley is limited and widely scattered. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Bexley, Biodiversity Action Plan, Bursted Woods, Crayford Marshes, Crossness, Danson Park, East Wickham Open Space, Erith Marshes, Erith Quarry, Extinction, Foots Cray Meadows, Friends of the Shuttle, Gardens, Hall Place, Harvest Mouse, London Wildlife Trust, Mammals, Martens Grove, Recording, River Cray, River Shuttle, River Thames, Ruxley Gravel Pits, Thamesmead, Woodlands Farm, Wyncham Stream | Leave a comment

Residents revolt over Council ‘carnage’ on banks of Wyncham Stream. New row as Council describes heavy-handed management of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation as ‘tree maintenance’.

Posted on 19/02/2015 by Chris Rose

Bexley Council is once again under scrutiny for an apparently budget-driven ‘scorched earth’ approach to vegetation management. Complaints from residents about the severity of an operation last week along the Wyncham stream, a tributary of the Shuttle, where it flows between Brookend … Continue reading →

Posted in Bexley Council, Biodiversity Action Plan, BNEF, coppicing, Environment, Friends of the Shuttle, Parks, River Shuttle, Rivers, RSPB, SINC, Trees, vegetation management, Volunteering, Wyncham Stream | 4 Comments