The East London Garden Society and others believe the best way to reduce pollution in the Shoreditch area would be a Forest Garden. This would be a community park involving the greater area of east London. Placing as much vegetation in an urban area is conducive to lessening pollution. A Forest Garden is the oldest form of agriculture and is proven to do this. We urge Hammerson and The Ballymore Group to take note of what the local population want and not install an inappropriate park that would not fulfil the above objective.
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A forest garden would work with nature and what nature is already doing on the site. The design should include elements of planting that would work to remedy the soil over time, improve the environment using small and slow solutions, gently nudging the site towards an eventual multi productive agro forestry landscape.
Please sign this petition to persuade Hammerson and The Ballymore Group to install a Forest Garden instead of their proposed plan as follows which does not meet the desired objective.
- A woodland area which would need careful management and approximately 25% extra space for its management.
- A community growing area which would require someone to management it, need 25% extra space for its management, most likely have to be fenced off and require an excessive amount of water to succeed, especially in the summer.
To: Hammerson and The Ballymore Group
Forest Garden at Bishopgate Goods Yard
We call on Hammerson and The Ballymore Group to listen to the local population and install a Forest Garden on top of the Grade II arches of the Bishopgate Goods Yard in order to combat the already over polluted area around Liverpool Street and which would increase as a result of the new proposed development.
A forest garden would work with nature and what nature is already doing on the site. The design should include elements of planting that would work to remedy the soil over time, improve the environment using small and slow solutions, gently nudging the site towards an eventual multi productive agro forestry landscape.
Your proposed plan to include:
- A woodland area - would help in reducing the pollution but would need careful management and approximately 25% extra space for its management.
- A community growing area - would require someone to management it, would also need 25% extra space for its management and at most would be carbon neutral. It would require an excessive amount of water to succeed, especially in the summer, yet there is no grey water facility envisaged. In addition the area would most likely have to be fenced off.
We urge you to listen to what the local population desire and work with those who are able to achieve a Forest Garden.
