All revved up: Rangers top up their chainsaw skillsIn a bid to sharpen their skills, rangers from Ashtead Common joined colleagues from the Coulsdon Commons at the end of February for a three-day chainsaw refresher course. Practicing within the picturesque…
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Epping Forest: Consultation Response on Replacement Essex Minerals Local Plan 2025 to 2040
Essex County Council, Minerals Planning Consultation, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1QH Date: 08/03/2024 Dear Sir / Madam, Replacement Essex Minerals Local Plan review 2025 to 2040 – Consultation Response I refer to the above draft plan. Epping Forest is…
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Burnham Beeches & Stoke Common, Buckinghamshire – Newsletter Feb 2024
Report confirms the value of the Beeches and Stoke Common A new report has revealed that, over a fifty year period, Burnham Beeches and Stoke Common delivers £130million of benefits to the public through recreation, health and wellbeing, air and water quality…
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Coulsdon Commons, Croydon, London – Newsletter Feb 2024
What a lot of hedge! The beauty and biodiversity benefits of hedges are capturing media attention, thanks to a ground-breaking study—the most comprehensive map of hedgerows across England. This new map is crafted from aerial laser scanning of England’s entire landscape using…
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West Wickham, Bromley, London – Newsletter Feb 2024
Volunteers back in action, thinning holly and enhancing woodland diversity Kickstarting the first conservation work party of 2024, the volunteers gathered on West Wickham Common to assist the Ranger in thinning the woodland understory and addressing a dense pocket of…
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Ashtead Common, Surrey – Newsletter Feb 2024
Reviving tradition, from woodland to hedge On a fresh, sunny Saturday morning in January, the Surrey Hedgelaying Group paid a visit to Ashtead Common. Their mission: to harvest hazel stakes and binders destined for laying a hedge at Horsley Meadows. This particular coupe, set to be…
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Epping Forest – Newsletter Feb 2024
Hands-on conservation: Making a difference one task at a time Over the last 47 years The Epping Forest Conservation Volunteers (EFCV) have completed more than 2000 conservation tasks, leaving behind a legacy of positive impressions across the Forest. On a…
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Heartwood Collection acquire The Royal Forest, Chingford, adding to its growing portfolio of freehold ‘pubs with rooms’
This acquisition adds a further 28 rooms to the 150 rooms that the Group has acquired over four sites. Following completion of The Royal Forest, Heartwood Collection remains on track to hit its target to grow to over 60 inns…
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New report: Network of Commons worth millions to society
New report: Network of Commons worth millions to society (cityoflondon.gov.uk) A new report has revealed that the network of “Commons” – managed and conserved by the City of London Corporation across Buckinghamshire, Surrey, and parts of South London – are…
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Epping Forest: Chairman’s Column – February 2024
We have recently commissioned an independent audit of our natural capital assets, including Epping Forest. For generations we have described the Forest as ‘priceless’, but that doesn’t allow us to quantify the value of the services we provide to the…
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