Text Box: Working Party Meeting Current Issues: Future management of Golf, it seems Glendale or LBL are unable to run it themselves and will be looking for a management bid/tender for the golf course. ‘Golf has to be sustainable’ I suggested having artisan members to do some work but ‘the unions would be up in arms’. If the golf closed down there wouldn’t be the jobs anyway! Catch 22 or Alice in Wonderland? The Compost Site, We don’t want the eyesore or conservation risks, but LBL and Glendale want a cheap solution to a waste problem. We’re in contact with Environment Agency, Natural England and London Wildlife Trust about the issue, Please complain to Martin.Hyde@lewisham.gov.uk . Cycle paths. an unnecessary man made feature we believe but a planning application will appear sometime to install one along the riverside walk. Sustrans have longer term plans to have a circular route in the woodland and we believe this is all unsuitable in BPP ‘countryside’ setting. Please complain again to Martin Hyde.

Park Signage.

At last it seems that Lewisham Council are actually going to  tell the world where Beckenham Place Park is. For years the lack of informative signs at most park gates, has been brought up at Working Party meetings and ‘there’s no money’ is the cry, but signage is now in the planning stage and some members of the committee are being consulted  too. It won’t happen overnight, but it does look extremely promising.
Text Box: Ancient Pond and others Water Areas. A couple of FBPP committee members have been meeting with a group called Froglife (with Lewisham Council’s blessing). This is an organisation that promotes the provision of habitats for amphibians and reptiles to flourish alongside wider biodiversity. They felt the ancient pond would benefit from some dredging (something else FBPP have urged the Council to do for many years). They identified a couple of areas on the golf course where some small areas of water could be put in without upsetting anyone. The seasonal water of the Willow Carr has been less and less wet in the winter for many years and they thought some of this could be restored without disturbing it. The small group of alder wouldn't be affected. They seemed hopeful of getting funding from various sources and Lewisham Council are now keen for this project to come to fruition.