At the Annual General Meeting on May 1, there was discussion of the possibility of creating a Heritage Conservation District in Orchard Park/Sherwood Forest. It was noted that this would not be a quick process.
Here is a flow chart on how the process of designating a heritage district.
(Click on the image for a larger version.)
At the 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM), we asked people to fill out a survey to help direct the work of the group looking into options for the Sherwood Forest school site. The results from the survey are shown below.
Click here for a summary of your comments and concerns.
Thanks to Ruth Walton for summarizing these results.
See the original brochure for Sherwood Forest Orchard Park!
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The Planning Committee of London City Council voted to pave the rest of the trail in the Medway Valley north of Fanshawe Road except for a boardwalk in the section around the bend in the Creek. This is shown on Option 4A of Page 40 of the Medway Valley Heritage Forest North Environmentally Significant Area Trail Master Planning Study (this is a large document) (with a boardwalk instead of asphalt around the bend). This recommendation goes to the full Council on April 16th.
This decision will likely have implications for the area of the Medway which borders Orchard Park/Sherwood Forest during the upcoming Conservation Master Plan.
The neighbourhood association on the east side of the Creek, Old Masonville, spoke in favour of the more pavement option. Sandy Levin, from the Orchard Park Sherwood Forest Ratepayers, spoke in favour of 5B (a less pavement option, page 44 of the attached). Both options included an additional bridge over the Medway just south of Sunningdale Road.
Report of Sherwood Forest School Site Group, January 2013
Update of work to date
None of the public bodies are willing to buy the property. We have approached the city, UWO (via the Centre for Activity in Aging), and the French Public Board without success. There also was no funding support from the Province or the city for a Sustainable Energy Centre.
The Thames Valley Board has told us that it will follow the process outlined in Regulation 444/98 for disposing of the Sherwood Forest P.S. property. This means that the private schools interested in the property will either have to bid for the site when it becomes available or convince the city or one of the public bodies to buy it for them.
Continue reading “Report from the Sherwood Forest School Site Group”
Orchard Park / Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association 