AHDA News
Our Green Belt England’s Green Belt shrunk by 18,390 hectares equivalent to 25,756 football pitches between 2011 and 2019. Redbridge Green Belt shrunk by 140 hectares (196 football pitches) between 2011 – 2024. Our lungs are getting smaller! It should also be noted that when the Green Belt was created there were many more farms, […]
Our Green Belt and London Green Belt Council Meeting Read More »
The Orchard Project’s Veteran Orchard Training Day The Orchard Project is the only national charity dedicated to creating, maintaining and celebrating community orchard. This week they held a veteran orchard training day at The Dick Turpin Orchard! Jenny (AHDA Vice Chair) attended and as she said, you never stop learning and its lovely to see
Dick Turpin Orchard – The Orchard Project’s Veteran Orchard Training Day Read More »
Gravel Extraction – Haul Road crossing point Now that the extraction has re-started the rutting of the Equestrian Centre path crossing has also started. This needs monitoring, scraping is a partial solution as well as considering a firmer base to the crossing point for the long term. A discussion is needed about the drainage ditch
Gravel Extraction – Haul Road Read More »
AHDA has raised concerns with our Councillors: The horse riding route The east nature reserve is getting very degraded by heavier use of horse riders and impassible in places for other users, pedestrians, cyclists, and anyone with a push chair. AHDA have asked if solution to this continued problem being considered in the master plan, for example dividing
Fairlop Waters and the Masterplan Read More »
On 16 December 2024 the proposed developments on Site A and B at Billet Road were approved. Planning Officer, Julian, seems to have been brought in to speak to the Planning Committee, presumably taking time away from being an associate director of HYAS. He spoke for a considerable amount of time, around an hour in
Billet Road Bellway Sites A and B Application Approved Read More »
The meeting was held via Teams and attended by Vanessa, Jenny and Chris. UpdatesMineral extraction restarted on 28 May and completed on 5 July 2024 with enough mineral for processing over the next few months.The next phase is stripping of Area E2 which is expected to commence in early August 2024 but will update once
Gravel Meeting 9 July 2024 Read More »
On 13 Aug 2024 Redbridge announced the temporary closue of the lake due to blue green algae. Published: 13 August 2024 Throughout the year, we run regular tests on samples of water from our lakes. Following scheduled testing of water samples from Fairlop Waters today, it became apparent that there may be blue-green algae in
Fairlop waters – water sports closed Read More »
The riding school, staff and some of the horses will be moving to Docklands Equestrian Centre from 21 Aug 2024. Since the announcement their facebook page has received over 100 comments and memories, no doubt with more to come. We wish you all every success and thank you for your support of AHDA over the
Aldborough Hall Equestrian Centre end of an era and beginning of a new one Read More »
Redbridge have annonced the latest survey which focuses on access and travel but worth noting that they list ‘Plans for Aldborough Hall Nature Reserve’ in their intro. There is a short survey to complete we have listed the questions below so that you have a good opportunity to think them through and fully consider the
Future Fairlop Access and Travel Survey Read More »
Planning Applications for Site A and Site B Site A and B are the areas in blue one part owned by Bellway and the larger blue area owned by Sunshine Island. 792 documents on the planning application for Site B and 611 documents for Site A although several apply to the whole site including the
Bellway Billet Road – update Read More »