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Call for apple cake makers!
As part of the forthcoming community Apple Day at the Sidings Orchard, Heaton Mersey we are putting out a call to arms to any local and enthusiastic cake makers to ask for help in feeding the community with homemade fruit themed cakes. To make this easy we are sharing a couple of lovely but easy […]
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What kind of society do you want to live in? Pay to use parks are on the horizon?
Did you know that some councils are actively considering withdrawing all funding from parks in 2019 in response to on-going austerity measures. There is a view emerging in some areas that all parks should be income generating and a variety of pay to use models are being actively considered. The outcomes of these worrying policy […]
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Summer Scything Events @ Mersey Vale Nature Park
Here’s your chance to have a go at the old art of scything and help maintain areas of species-rich grassland at Mersey Vale Nature Park (MVNP) which are a vital source of habitat and food for wildlife. We are delighted that Adam from Cheshire Wildlife Trust is returning this year to lead the MVNP scything […]
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Biomass application withdrawal
Out of the blue, we had news today from Stockport Council that Stockport Homes has withdrawn their application to build the wood fuel processing plant on Battersea Road. Thank you to the local residents and councillors who came to the public meeting last night and those who couldn’t make it but have registered their protest […]
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Register your protest to the proposed wood fuel plant on Battersea Rd
There is a public meeting tonight (see details below) to discuss the proposed wood fuel plant on Battersea Rd. The meeting is 7.30pm – 9pm at Heaton Mersey Sports and Social Club, Harwood Road, Heaton Mersey. At this meeting, we’ll find out people’s views on the development and what actions we might take. If you […]
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Siding’s Orchard gets some TLC (tree loving care)
On Sunday, a group of regular orchard volunteers & others keen to learn about pruning braved the cold weather to give the fruit trees at the Sidings Orchard in Mersey Vale Nature Park a long needed prune. Pruning is an essential part of keeping fruit trees healthy and productive and […]
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Update on proposed biomass wood fuel processing development
A couple of weeks ago we reported that members of Stockport’s Planning and Highway Committee would meet on the 16th February to decide on Stockport Homes application to build a biomass woodchip operation on Battersea Rd, Heaton Mersey. They had received representations from businesses and residents to say the proposed site (marked in red on […]
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HMVCG supports community objection to biomass woodchip plant
What’s going on? Stockport Homes (a subsidiary of Stockport Council) has submitted an application to run a wood fuel storage, processing and distribution plant at Battersea Road in Heaton Mersey. This only came to our attention very recently when we heard on the grapevine that it had gone before the Heaton’s and Reddish Area Committee. […]
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Treework to begin next week
We are pleased to report that treework will take place next week at Mersey Vale Nature Park on the embankment path that runs from the entrance steps at the bottom of Craig Road to the railway bridge by the River Mersey. This is the first step of our ‘Woodland Walk’ project, developed in partnership with […]
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Success with our ‘Woodland Walk’ project
We are delighted to announce that the Woodland Trust has chosen our ‘Woodland Walk’ project at Mersey Vale Nature Park as one of three projects in the region to receive a cash award from Tesco’s ‘Bags of Help’ fund. The next step is customer voting to determine how much we will receive. Shoppers at the […]
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