Redland Green Community Group
HELPING TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN REDLAND GREEN FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALLWelcome to our website. We are a group of local residents in Redland, Bristol who love Redland Green and who do lots of things to improve the Green as an urban wildlife refuge and to make it a lovely place for people to be.
If you also love the Green, get in touch! Here for an enquiry, or here to join our mailing list - you'll be notified of our events and activities.
Dates for your diaries:
Tuesday 6 February 2024, 7.30pm: Our AGM (details to follow)
Winter '23/'24 update
The wet weather this winter has so far presented us with limited opportunity to get on with our usual winter activities. These include surveying and cleaning our 21 bird boxes and strimming our summer flowering meadow. We've made a start on the bird boxes and plan to continue when the weather permits, and will strim the meadow after a period of dry weather. We have, however, been working with Redland Green Club to make the triangle of grass by the courts and opposite the entrance to the Bowling Club a new biodiversity hotspot. Read more here.
We've been busy over the winter and spring months, tending our wildflower meadow, dealing with a patch of brambles on the Green and converting the area into a small orchard, maintaining and cleaning our our bird boxes, planting sponsored trees, litter picking, as well as lots of other activities. Find out more about what we've been doing!
The eminent naturalist, the late Richard Bland was an invited speaker at one of RGCG's earliest meetings. He outlined actions we could take to improve the biodiversity of the Green. Most of those we have acted upon, and will continue to strive to keep Redland Green a beautiful place for all and an urban wildlife hotspot.
We are fortunate to have a wide variety of birds in and around the Green: from sparrowhawks, great spotted woodpeckers and nuthatch to winter visitors and a wide variety of garden birds. Find out more about our bird nesting boxes and see some lovely bird photos taken in Redland Green by local photographer, Michael Owen, including some super shots of the Green's great spotted woodpeckers and their chick.
If you see evidence of birds using any of our nesting boxes, please email birds@rgcg.org.uk with details of your sighting.
Redland Green has four veteran and ancient ash trees.
Proposal to acquire and develop the Cossins Road garages
A proposal to replace 22 of the 25 Cossins Road garages with a development of six dwellings was submitted to the council in February with some minor modifications made later in the year. Read more about the proposal here or go straight to the council's planning portal.
Read the BS6 Green Space audit from 2021, an initiative of a local resident and prepared in response to Bristol City Council's Ecological Emergency Action Plan 2021-2025.
Research conducted in 2020 investigated Bristolians' views about climate change and understanding of how Bristol City Council is responding to the climate and ecological emergency.
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