Some reason to be optimistic about ‘Wild Camden’.
Four of us braved the rain (as well as missing the last five minutes of the rugby) to discuss the level of neighbourliness we see from the Council, as owners of the land below Camden Crescent. We discovered that because of their lack of care their abutting neighbours are losing their boundary hedge to rampant brambles and convolvulus, as well as light and space to overgrowing shrubs and trees along the boundary. Their gardener says that it is worse than ever.
Cllr Tom Davies has promised to this take up with Mark Cassidy, the Council’s Team Manager, Parks and Bereavements Services, as well as the wider issue over taming this wilderness where nothing as yet has actually worked long term.
We are daring to believe in a vision of this space being returned to its previous glory with views up to the Camden Crescent facade from below and down from the Crescent railings which are to be restored next year.
Good luck, Tom. We’re poised to make this part of our project to turn Camden and NE Bath into a low traffic neighbourhood which encourages all of us, both residents and those travelling through to get out of our cars and enjoy what could be a beautiful community environment.
Look out for our newsletter being distributed now and make a note in your diary for 7.30pm, 21st November at our AGM where we’ll be hosting a discussion on Low traffic Neighbourhoods with Cllr Joanna Wright and her colleagues.
In respect of the land belowCamden Crescent, a couple of years ago 6 pigs were installed on the land and did sterling work in totally clearing the area of weeds and brambles…could this measure not be repeated?
Yes, it probably could. But what we learned from las time was that we needed to know exactly what we were going to do next. This is not public land – it belongs to the council, behind lock and key. I’m following a line of enquiry with Lansdown Crescent Residents Association about turning it over to pasture for grazing by agile quadrupeds. More anon, Jeremy