It’s been a busy month!
Planning permission has been applied for the whole Park, and is currently being considered. The plan submitted is here. It is due to be decided upon by the end of April. The work has been put out to tender, and prices are due to come back in the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'park'
Montpelier Park: Progress Report, March 2010
March 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Parks
Growing group: meeting 25th March
March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, General, Green Spaces, Minutes, Parks
We didn’t take full minutes, but a flavour of the evening is below. Shiona, Sally, Lucy, Steve, Karen, Ingrid, Esther, Simon, Danny, Chris, Claudia, David and Mima attended.
The Mapping Day on Sunday went very well, with about 30 people in attendance and everyone enjoying the walk and cakes. Many people felt uncomfortable identifying gardens as [...]
Tags:bristol·Food·green spaces·montpelier·park·Picton Square
Montpelier Growing Group Resources
March 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Food, General, Green Spaces, Parks
The Growing Group is currently identifying spaces in Montpelier to plant trees, fruits, vegetables and wildlife friendly plants. We welcome all residents to get involved.
As well as our most valuable resource – people power (!) – we are also in need of materials to transform these spaces. If you have anything to offer, [...]
Tags:bean·feast·Food·green spaces·growing·montpelier·park·Picton Square·resources·street·sustainable
Summary of Open Meeting – Fairfield resource centre Feb 10th
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · General
We had another well attended and interesting meeting. Over 55 people attended, donating £17.26 towards expenses. Thanks to all who participated, helped clear up, have written up summaries, baked cakes and buscuits, agreed to take on treasurer and bookkeeping roles for Transition Montpelier and all other actions, and Kassin and his team for the use [...]
Chronic underfunding of Montpelier’s parks
February 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · General
Montpelier Park Group and Albany Green Residents Group have joined forces to pressurise the Council into taking responsibility for the dreadful state of Montpelier’s only green spaces.
The Parks Department have been dragging their heels and giving both groups the run around. We have written this letter to Jon Rogers to get him to try to [...]
Food: discussion summary from open meeting 10/02/10
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, General, Parks, Projects
At the Open Meeting on 10th Feb we had a really enthusiastic and idea filled discussion about sustainable food in Montpelier! As Energy was the hot hot topic of the night we had a small group, but we’re sure there are plenty of other people who would be interested, both from the Energy discussion and [...]
Tags:bean·bristol·feast·Food·green spaces·montpelier·park·Picton Square
Newsletter 4: Jan 2010
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Newsletters
Hello with a grrr and a brrr
Welcome to 2010. Over the past few weeks with the disappointment of Copenhagen (grrr), the importance of a grass roots response to climate change and peak oil is even clearer. If you couple the very cold winter (brrr), which highlighted both vulnerabilities in national food supply as well as [...]
Tags:20mph·energy·Food·meeting·park·Picton Square·Streets·Winter Fayre
Montpelier Park Group AGM
January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Parks
Happy New Year!
First, some good news. Montpelier Park has been accepted through to the second round of another grant application, for a further £50k from Biffaward. If successful, this would give us a total of £157k. The work on the Park fencing is due to start in March, and the telephone box should also be [...]
Lottery Funding for Park
December 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General, Parks
Montpelier Park has won through to the second round of the Community Spaces Lottery Fund, which means we are highly likely to receive £50,000 towards reclaiming the wasteground to the rear of the park. It also means that other grants may start to come through to ‘match’ this funding; we’re seen as more of a [...]
Montpelier Park: Final Design Proposal
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Parks
Bristol City Council has just released their final design proposal for Montpelier Park; please take a moment to review it and send comments back to bristolparks@bristol.gov.uk on their feedback form. The deadline for responses has now been extended to 11 December.
Feel free to discuss here too!
Thanks,
Shiona
Tags:bristol·green spaces·montpelier·park·public consultation
