Planning & Environment Activities

Responses to Planning Applications

Recycling Printer Cartridges

Used computer ink cartridges can be donated to charity in a collecting box at the Birstall Methodist Church Coffee Chop in Wanlip Lane.

17 February 2008

Tree Planting

The village has recently completed the planting of nine trees to reinforce those existing along the approach from Birstall. The trees have been paid for by a grant from the County Council's Stepping Stones Countryside Management Project (contact Andy Jackson). The County Council Highways provided stakes, ties, guards and mulch and volunteer parishioners did the planting. The proposal were prepared by Phil Walling and Joy Norton (Village Tree Warden) with considerable help from Julian Simpson, Assistant Arboricultural Officer at the County Council. Aftercare will be provided by the village, led by the Tree Warden.

Specifically, an Ash and a Field Maple were planted adjacent to the recently layered hedgerow on Rectory Road. An Ash was planted in the grassed area inside the bend at the junction of Rectory Road and Wanlip Lane and along Wanlip Lane were planted two wild Cherry trees to provide blossom in Spring, two multi stemmed Silver Birch, a Field Maple and a small leafed Lime.

Bulb Planting - a team effort

During the week-end of 14th & 15th of October, the Wanlip Wildlife and Ecology Working Group, led on this occasion by Graham Lander, enthused a good turn-out of villagers to plant bulbs in key places all around the village. Earlier plantings were beginning to thin out and a programme of renewal was needed.

It was rumoured that over the two days, 8,000 bulbs, of seven varieties, were planted by a team of over 20 people - ranging from the young to the young at heart.

Now it is just a case of waiting patiently for the Spring, though with this exceptional autumn weather, who knows, they could be flowering by Christmas!

Our thanks to Sue Lander for this photographic record of the activity