Our little pick covered Jubilee Avenue, The Green, Potato Pond, the High Road to Woodford County and Chingford lane.
Six bags of rubbish, one traffic cone and the reporting through Love Clean Streets of abandoned diversion signs
Our next litter pick is on 27 October
Always surprised by how much litter we collect we covered the high road along the green , Potato pond, Warners pond, Broomhill Road, the Terrace
The lights on the Celebration Tree have been switched on to celebrate the Festival of Eid.
The WGAG have successfully lobbied Redbridge Council to reinstate the bench outside the White Swan in the Broadway
A petition has been started on change.org, calling for the immediate re-opening of Broadmead Road.
The road has been closed since the beginning of summer 2023, when it emerged that its cracked concrete was falling onto the tube tracks and the structure's internal metal reinforcements had become corroded.
Click here to view the petition:
www.change.org/p/urgent-reopening-of-broadmead-road-to-alleviate-chaos-in-woodford-green
Click here for project updates from the London Borough of Redbridge:
Defib Finder is a fantastic online tool that allows you to find the nearest defibrillator to you.
It is funded and managed by the British Heart Foundation.
You can search by ‘Woodford Green’ or your postcode to find a list of the closest defibrillators to you.
You can then filter by defibrillators that are publicly available 24/7 .
Visit www.defibfinder.uk to find out more.
You may have read about the Asian hornet and the impact it has on our native bee.
If you don't know what one looks like or how to report seeing one, please watch the video or click on the following link for more information:
The developer has submitted a new plan for the redevelopment of Woodford Police Station.
The full description says:
Part demolition and conversion of the existing building to create 22 flats and 9 terraced houses (9x3 bedrooms, 8x2 bedrooms, 14x1 bedrooms) with associated waste/ refuse, car parking, cycle store, landscaping and associated works.
The application references eight parking spaces, 57 cycle spaces and two charging points for electric vehicles.
Any observations have to be with the planning office by 15 May 2024.
The flats will be in the main police station and the houses will be built where the car park is at the rear of the police station.
The planning application details (0836/24) can be found here:
planning.redbridge.gov.uk/redbridge/application-details/200372
The following link provides an overview their application for planning permission dated 3 April 2024:
planningdocs.redbridge.gov.uk/NorthgatePublicDocs/02879994.pdf
You may find it useful to watch the consultation event held by the developer:
