Category: ESA

Upcoming Events

Medway Walk – Sunday, September 28

Come for a walk-through and litter clean-up of our adopted area of the Medway Valley Environmentally Significant Area (ESA). Families are welcome to join as the walk will be at a leisurely pace.  A biologist who lives in our neighbourhood will help us to understand and appreciate our beautiful valley.

When:  Sunday Sept 28th, 2014. 1:30 pm ( for approx. 1-2 hours)
Where:   Meet at the Ramsay Road entrance to the Valley located between the Precious Blood Monastery and Brescia College

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Neighborhood News – May 2014

Sherwood Forest School Site – Community Planning Meeting

Please be sure to come out to the second community planning exercise for the Sherwood Forest School site. The session will be held Wednesday, May 7 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Brescia University College, in the new Clare Hall, Mercato Room. If you can’t make the meeting, comments can be sent to the City of London attention Brian Turcotte at bturcott@london.ca

Medway Valley ESA

Join us on our introductory walk-through of the Medway ESA {Environmentally Significant Area} that we have adopted!

A city of London Ecologist, Ms. Linda McDougall, will accompany us to point out areas of interest and answer your questions. We are planning a ‘Buckthorn Busting’ event for June too. Come along and learn how to be good stewards of our beautiful valley.

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Follow up to Jan 29 Meeting

Information from the Jan 29 meeting –

The full presentation from the Jan 27 public meeting is available on the City’s website at http://www.london.ca/residents/Environment/Natural-Environments/Documents/Medway-Public-Meeting-2.pdf. A copy of the full presentation is also available at the Sherwood Branch of the London Public Library.

As a reminder, the

Consultants report on Medway Valley

The City will be hosting a Community Information Meeting for the Medway Valley Heritage Forest Environmentally Significant Area, Conservation Master Plan:

Date: Monday January 27, 2014
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Sir Frederick Banting S.S. (in Cafeteria) 125 Sherwood Forest Sq. London

The final report from the consultants who did the natural heritage inventory of the Medway Valley is on the City’s website. It is quite impressive.

The document can be found at the following web site. (This is a large document – 66 MB. ) City staff have been asked to also place a hard copy on hold at the Sherwood Branch of the Library (to be confirmed).


http://www.london.ca/residents/Environment/Natural-Environments/Documents/Medway-NHI-Eval-Final_Report-Public-Distribution.pdf

January News

Community Meeting – Wed, Jan 29

The next community meeting will be on Wednesday, January 29th starting at 7:00 pm in the Orchard Park Public School gym. There will be coffee (supplied by Councillor Branscombe) and treats. Councillor Branscombe and the Sherwood Forest School site committee hope to bring you an update on the future of the school site. Also, city staff will provide an update on the proposed secondary suite (“Granny Suite”) by-law. City staff will also update us on its Adopt an ESA program program. Volunteers from the community will be invited to participate. The other item of business will be a summary of the city’s presentation on the Medway Valley Conservation Master Plan. Please contact Sandy Levin if there are other matters you feel should come before the community at this meeting.

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