Biodiversity

Tottenham and Wood Green actually hosts some wonderful wildlife, from bats to bee orchids to sandmartins and jewel beetles.

A lot of our campaigns to stop developments or to protect particular sites have been about biodiversity, saving the places where wildlife is abundant - or even where it just manages to hang on by a thread.

• We have pressed the Council to give more resources to nature conservation and will oppose any reductions in this service as a result of the coalition government's cuts.
• We strengthened the nature conservation policies in Haringey's Unitary Development Plan and are lobbying to strengthen those in the new planning policy, the Local development Framework (2010).
• We have protected The Paddock near Tottenham Hale and helped get it turned into a nature park.
• We have made a 30-minute DVD about local wildlife: Tottenham - the wild side available for £5 (contact Quentin on 020 8801 9490 or e-mail us).
• We are working with the Council and other groups to implment the Biodiversity Action Plan for Haringey (the latest version is available on Haringey's website).
• We helped stop the M25 link-road across Rammey Marsh in Enfield, a site that has bee orchids, skylarks and nightingales.
• We helped secure more natural habitat in the Hale Village development at Tottenham Hale.
• We have an annual walk at Fishers Green, near Cheshunt, to hear nightingales singing in May.