by Louise Lewis | Sep 28, 2020 | News, Open Spaces, Plan, Sustainability
A strange encampment has been spotted in Highgate, not travellers, not hippies, but SHIFT, Stop Home Insurers Felling Trees. They are trying to protect four oak trees on the edge of Queen’s Wood. The Insurance Company, AXA, insists that cracking is a house and...
by Maggy Meade-King | Mar 4, 2020 | CIL, Open Spaces, Social & Community
An exciting project to transform the current makeshift BMX tracks next to Highgate Library on Shepherds Hill into a multi use loop and active outdoor zone for children and young people has been approved to go forward into Round 1 of Haringey CIL spending this year....
by Maggy Meade-King | Feb 28, 2020 | CIL, Open Spaces
A project – led by HNF Trees Lead Louise Lewis – to replace street trees in Highgate which have been felled for various reasons has been approved by the Haringey Planning Policy team. It will go forward into the first round of Haringey Community...
by Louise Lewis | May 13, 2019 | Open Spaces
Continuing our programme of Walks and Talks on Highgate Trees we had a fascinating ramble in Queen’s Wood led by Jeff Duckett, our local expert on trees and, more specifically, the botany of trees. It was that time in April when we had hail in the morning, so...
by fhiadminsu | Feb 4, 2019 | Event, Open Spaces
Professor Jeff Duckett will present an overview of the long history and biology of London’s trees and look to their future in the context of climate change. 2.00 pm Saturday 9 February at 10A South Grove by kind invitation of the Highgate Society. Everybody welcome....
by Louise Lewis | Nov 27, 2018 | Open Spaces, Plan
Climate change and pollution have certainly changed things in Highgate and not always for the worse. Did you know that with less soot and more nitrogen in the air, we now have far more lichens and mosses on our trees and that the warmer winters mean that the mimosa...