litter – GGERA https://www.ggera.org.uk Golders Green Estate Residents Association Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.ggera.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-icon-512x512-32x32.png litter – GGERA https://www.ggera.org.uk 32 32 GGERA’s Achievements https://www.ggera.org.uk/news/ggeras-achievements/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:12:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=735 GGERA achievements over the years include:

  • Keeping the community informed with a regular free newsletter.
  • Strengthening relationships with our MP, Councillors, Council officers, the Police & neighbouring residents groups.
  • Successfully installing a no-entry enforcement camera, CCTV cameras & speed warning signs.
  • Sourcing funding, together with Our Yard at Clitterhouse, for rewilding and planters.
  • Various litter picks.
  • Bringing parking, pavements, regeneration, fly-tipping and antisocial behaviour issues to the attention of the Council, developers & the Police.
  • Campaigning for flower planters to block vehicular access at the Purbeck Drive entrance to Clitterhouse Park.
  • Objecting to Houses of Multiple Occupation and speculative development.
  • Improving road markings on our streets.
  • Spin offs: Memories Local History Group (currently dormant) & the Clitterhouse Farm Project now known and blooming as Our Yard at Clitterhouse.
  • The successful relocation of Donoghue!

These are small things, results of team work, that together have made a BIG difference to our lives!

]]> Useful Links https://www.ggera.org.uk/links/useful-links/ https://www.ggera.org.uk/links/useful-links/#comments Sat, 05 Oct 2024 16:20:28 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/wp/?p=6 Local concerns:

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]]> https://www.ggera.org.uk/links/useful-links/feed/ 1 Litter Pick – Thank You! https://www.ggera.org.uk/news/litter-pick-thank-you/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:59:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=480 A belated “thank you” to those who helped with the litter pick back in October.

Only a few were able to help but it made a big difference! We were able to collect 11 bags of rubbish and a discarded suitcase.

]]> Litter Pick – This Saturday https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/litter-pick-this-saturday/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 03:50:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=471 Do join us for a couple of hours on Saturday, 9th October 2021 to help tidy the estate and to make it more pleasant for everyone.

We will meet up at 10:15 am at 105 Cheviot Gardens, ready for a 10:30 start, and will aim to finish at around 12:30 pm.

The weather forecast looks good!

Litter pickers, waste bags and our own Golders Green Estate hi-vis jackets will all be provided. Please wear sturdy shoes or boots. We have a limited supply of gloves – please bring your own if possible.

Children are more than welcome to join in, if supervised.

If you haven’t done so already, do please let us know if you intend to come so that we will have an idea of numbers.

]]> Litter https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/litter/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=453 As previously advised  we hope to make litter-picking around the estate a more regular (2-3 month) event.

The next planned date is Saturday, 9th October.

Please make every effort to help for a couple of hours.

We will meet up at 10:15 am at 105 Cheviot Gardens, ready for a 10:30 start, and will aim to finish at around 12:30 pm.

]]> Thank You! https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/thank-you/ Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=439 Thank you ever so much to those who helped with the litter pick last Saturday! Although there were only a few of us we made a big impact! … And the rain held off until the very end.

There was some enthusiasm for making this a regular (2-3 month) event. So we’ll aim to have additional ones in September and November as a start. Watch this space!

The rubbish we collected (minus one bag)
]]> Litter Pick: Saturday 3rd July 2021 https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/litter-pick-saturday-3rd-july-2021/ Tue, 25 May 2021 05:00:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=411 Now that the lockdown is easing we plan to spend a couple of hours picking up litter around the estate on Saturday, 3rd July.  Please make a note in your diary.

We will meet up at 10:15 am at 105 Cheviot Gardens, ready for a 10:30 start, and will aim to finish at around 12:30 pm.

Litter pickers, gloves, waste bags and our own Golders Green Estate hi-vis jackets will all be provided. Please wear sturdy shoes or boots.

Children are more than welcome to join in, if supervised.

It would help us to have an idea of numbers: please let us know if you intend to come.

]]> 2020 – What a Year it’s Been! https://www.ggera.org.uk/news/2020-what-a-year-its-been/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:53:00 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=378

Covid-19. Perhaps enough said! But …

• It was lovely to see so many join in the Clap for NHS and to see how neighbours have looked out for each other throughout.

• Thanks to the residents who have been supporting our local pharmacy deliver medicines to the housebound.

Litter picking

• One resident was spotted litter-picking on his own in Purbeck Drive one early morning during the first lockdown. How kind!

• Thank you to residents of The Vale who have organised litter pick-ups in the green space there.

• We hope we can organise another estate-wide litter pick-up in due course.

We continue to campaign for Donoghue’s to relocate. On a related note, we were able to help coordinate some strong opposition to the proposed concrete batching facility in Cricklewood.

It was lovely to see in the spring the results of the earlier wildflower bulb-planting activity.

The Memories Group has been meeting weekly via Zoom every Wednesday 5:00–6:00 pm since April. It has become more of a support group to its members during these peculiar times. It welcomes all residents and those with a connection to our area. It is now on Christmas break but weekly meetings will resume on Wednesday 13th January. If you would like to join any of its meetings just email memories@ggera.org.uk.

After some months of cajoling, the vandalized cash machine in Pennine Drive has at long last been removed.

We do thank Barnet Council for installing the CCTV camera in Pennine Lane, behind the shops. Please email PC Singh at amric.singh@met.police.uk if you witness any antisocial behaviour in that area.

We continue to try to halt the overdevelopment of our neighbourhood. Some planning applications have been turned down after our lobbying. Thank you to all those who have taken the time to object.

]]> Sprucing up the Estate https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/sprucing-up-the-estate/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:55:56 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=236 Love where you live

… on Saturday 14th September, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

We are planning to spend a couple of hours picking up litter around the estate on Saturday 14th September.

Do please join us at 10:15 am at 105 Cheviot Gardens, ready for a 10:30 start.

There will be a short introduction, after which we will work in small teams in different areas.  We aim to finish at around 12:30 pm.

Litter pickers, gloves, waste bags and our own Golders Green Estate hi-vis jackets will all be provided.  Please wear sturdy shoes or boots.

Children are more than welcome to join in, if supervised.

It would help us to have an idea of numbers if you could please let us know if you intend to come.

]]> Litter Picking https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/litter-picking/ Tue, 22 May 2018 21:00:40 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=163 We have not organised a litter pick around the Golders Green Estate for a while.

Please let us know soon if you would be interested in taking part in an event on a Saturday morning in June or July. Possible dates are the 16th, 23rd or 30th of June, or the 7th or 14th of July.

We need a core group of around 10 people to make it worthwhile. All the equipment you need will be provided.

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