Urban jungle taming
This year the council did not carry out its usual practice of spraying weeds on the outer and inner edge of pavements in the spring. On health and environmental grounds this is probably...
Category: street
Local Hero
Many thanks to Bath Newseum for running this story this morning. Kenny is a cricket coach and loving volunteer who has been tending to the artist-inspired rusty planters on the city end of...
Coming through your letterbox this week…
Further to last week’s post on the Council’s Liveable Neighbourhoods initiative which is now very much underway we’re delivering a two page bulletin on what it might mean for the Camden area. This...
One year ago – we had this at lunch time…
“Enough is enough” is what we declared. Four vehicles involved in a speed related accident which only good fortune meant there were no human casualties. So where are we now? That’s a good...
What I want for Christmas
Well, you never know… The new committee met last night agreed to go full steam ahead and set up a Low Traffic Neighbourhood Campaign Committee. Their first task is to try and fit...
Planetary alignment
Reprising on my AGM theme, if there ever was a time to sort out the traffic problems in Camden and NE Bath in general – this is it. Sometimes things just seem to...
AGM tomorrow
If you are reading this on Wednesday 20th November – well done, you’re highly connected! The AGM is on Thursday 21st at 19:30, at the Claremont Community Centre. We’d love to see you...
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...
Here’s a question…
Just before we start, five days ago we asked for help in finding our newest resident, Kaia the dog, from Lower Camden Place. She was found in Weston and all is well. Various...
Local hero shows us the way…
On Thursday afternoon after the Council’s recycling vehicles have been through one will often get a sighting of this rare and colourful species, Smithius litterpickipus. It cleans the street of the detritus and...