New Community Woodland at the old Littlewood House site

The parish of Drayton is a little bit nearer to having a new community woodland to enjoy! On Tuesday 26th January members of Draituna Trees had the chance to make a first visit to the potential community woodland area, with the permission of Abel Homes and Broadland District Council. Stephen Chesney-Beale (Tree Officer for BDC) led the group, which included Mrs Hilary Kisby, Chair of Drayton Parish Council. He showed us where a new woodland path will be constructed. The picture below shows the group on the first visit.

To see a gallery of pictures of the woodland area on the Abel Homes' website visit: http://www.hus22.com/#/Galleries

Drayton Parish Plan -- 2009 - 2011

Draituna Trees are involved in a project to map and describe all the green spaces in the parish, as a contribution to the work of the Drayton Parish Plan. If you wish to be involved in this please contact the group (see Contact page for details). If you wish to know more about the Parish Plan Initiative contact the Parish Office or read editions of The Chronicle and the Parish magazine for more details. You can also email the Chairman, Brendan Chester-Kadwell direct on draytonparishplan@googlemail.com

Our new Constitution was approved at the AGM on 11th March 2009. Click here to download a copy in pdf format

Suter's Drive pond, Thorpe Marriott:Members of Draituna Trees are working in partnership with Broadland District Council, to help improve the pond and its surrounding area as an ecological amenity for residents. Volunteers are welcome to join in activities! Contact us for details if you would like to get involved in the future..

What is happening to the pond? And who is doing it? The Norwich Fringe Project is working in Partnership with Peter Leggett, Street Scene Officer at Broadland District Council, to aid the refurbishment of the pond area at Suter's Drive. The Project has produced a contract specification of works for the which is to include the repair of the path from Suter's Drive to the Pond and onto Marriotts Way, coppicing of willow trees and new fencing and kissing gates and hedge planting. This work has now been completed. See the web site for more details of the Norwich Fringe Project. http://www.norwichfringeproject.co.uk/index.html

Banner photo:

Littlewood House woodland, from across the Badgers' Brook Valley.

Updated: 15th April 2010