Friends of Parc Cefn Onn

Friends of Parc Cefn Onn was formed in 2010 in order to provide this beautiful Cardiff Country Park with some of the tender, loving care it so richly deserves but has lacked over the last 10 years of so.

http://www.friendsofcefnonn.org.uk

Cardiff Parks Superintendent's Reports January 1908 - October 1912

"This is a handwritten Report Book in which the Parks Superintendent, William Pettigrew, drafted his reports for the Cardiff Council Parks and Open Spaces Committee. It is currently in the care of the Cardiff Council's Parks Service.

Pettigrew held the position of Parks Superintendent, and subsequently Chief Parks Officer, during the period covered by the Report Book. A variety of handwriting styles appear in the reports, but Pettigrew personally signed very nearly all of them."

http://apps.cardiff.gov.uk/WebCat_Images/PDF/PDF077.pdf

Bute Park needs your support to win award

"Cardiff's very own Bute Park has been short-listed for a 2012
National Lottery Award under the category Best Heritage Project.

The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK's favourite Lottery-funded projects and aim to celebrate and recognise the difference that those projects have made to people, places and communities all across the UK."

http://www.newswales.co.uk/index.cfm?section=Community&F=1&id=24673

http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards

Love your Cardiff park

"Cardiff abounds with green spaces. These treasured parks date back as far as medieval times and are havens for wildlife and people alike. They are an essential part of the city and play a vital role in our everyday lives.

Home to a wide variety of wildlife including woodpeckers, kingfishers, egrets, bats, hedgehogs and squirrels; and host to concerts, festivals, art, sports and picnics – Cardiff’s parks are teaming with life all year round."

http://yourcardiff.walesonline.co.uk/2010/08/02/love-your-cardiff-park/


http://www.flickr.com/groups/1458200@N20/

Capital thoughts on a Spring day

"Cardiff’s green lung is flaking away. By attrition patches go. New path, new hut, new essential enterprise, new bridge, new hard standing, new gate, new wall, new access, new control centre, new garden workshed, new training facility, new café, new changing rooms, new administration offices, new courtyard, new car park. This salami slicing has been going on for one hundred years and now it’s accelerating."


http://www.clickonwales.org/2010/04/capital-thoughts-on-a-spring-day/

Anger at Llanishen Reservoir landfill plan

"Campaigners have reacted angrily to a proposal to turn the site of a listed Cardiff reservoir into a rubbish dump.

Owner Western Power Distribution (WPD) has applied for permission to turn Llanishen Reservoir into a landfill site or use it for housing"


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-12175281

Committee seals fate for playing field / Rumney Rec: No-one should think the fight it over

"A Cardiff council committee has today sealed the fate of a local playing field striving against development.

After a heated debate which divided councillors on the public protection committee, a majority vote meant Rumney Recreation Ground will not be awarded village green status – which could have protected it against becoming the site for a new high school"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cardiff/2011/jan/11/public-protection-committee-decision-rumney-recreation-ground-vote

"No-one should think the fight is over. A legal challenge and judicial review is difficult and expensive. Even if that does not go forward there is a still a planning process to contend with and a Council election in 2012. Somehow I don’t think we’ll see much of Rodney Berman and Neil McEvoy in East Cardiff when the 2012 Council election comes around.

The community fight to save the Rec has shown dignity, passion and rare ability to present a convincing case. The campaign will continue and I will continue to be in people’s corner."

http://cardiffeast.org/2011/01/13/rumney-rec-no-one-should-think-the-fight-it-over/

Lorry bridge at centre of new look for park

A MASSIVE restoration scheme for Cardiff’s treasured Bute Park has been unveiled – with a controversial lorry bridge at its heart.


http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/09/04/lorry-bridge-at-centre-of-new-look-for-park-91466-21670401/



http://gardengrabbing.blogspot.com/2008/09/stop-bute-park-road-plans.html

Bute Park Road Proposals

"Q. When is a proposed road in Bute Park not a road?
A. When it is an upgraded path"


http://gardengrabbing.blogspot.com/2008/09/nigel-howells-and-trees-for-chop.html


http://gardengrabbing.blogspot.com/2008/09/fight-bute-park-road-plans-yes-back.html

Bute Park - Green Flag Award

"The character of Bute Park is dominated by the nineteenth century plantings of mature trees which have been supplemented by subsequent development of Bute Park Arboretum and the memorial tree donation scheme. The setting of Cardiff Castle, when viewed from the park, is characterised by the foreground of mature Magnolias which have been extended over the years. The central open lawns of Cooper’s Fields form the venue for many of the city’s major concerts and outdoor events. The grounds are further enhanced with massed bulb planting beneath the tree canopies, and the herbaceous border, established in the 1950s provides a riot of summer colour. The main ornamental grounds terminate around the walled garden, constructed at some time between 1906 and 1913. This was originally used for fruit and vegetable production for the estate and is currently used as the Council’s production nursery for bedding plants and floral decorations as well as providing storage for shrubs and trees before planting elsewhere in the city. North of the walled garden is the Blackweir Playing fields. Originally Blackweir farm, some of the original field pattern is still preserved in the layout of the fields. Further north, the park narrows and becomes less formal in character, but still retains some spectacular tree planting, particularly the grouped Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood) and Fagus Sylvatica ‘Purpurea’ (Copper Beech). At this point, the Taff Trail follows the line of the park through Gabalfa Woods up to Gabalfa. "



http://greenflagaward.org.uk/winners/GSP001608

Green Flag Award

"The Green Flag Award scheme is the national standard for parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom."





http://www.greenflagaward.org.uk/

Desecration of Bute Park

"It is a scandal that the council didn't wait to get planning permission before it started the chainsaw massacre. ..."

http://gardengrabbing.blogspot.com/2008/03/desecration-of-bute-park.html