All Blog Posts (39)

Garage to rent?

Hi all, we have just moved into the area and need to undergo some building work on our house. Temporarily we need to rent some garage space. Please could you keep your ears to the ground in case you hear in the park anyones idle chatter about how they desperately need to rent out some garage space, cheers all, warm wishes, Newbie St Andrew residents x Continue

Added by Nick Hounsfield on November 4, 2009 at 8:59pm — No Comments

Bird Walk 18th October

Another successful bird walk on a dry autumn morning - it was good to see some new faces among the party as well. After a quiet start with just a few singing Robins to entertain us, things improved at the pond where a Grey Wagtail did a flypast. Later, a party of Mistle Thrushes feeding in adjacent gardens and flying to and from the park gave excellent views. Full list of birds seen and heard as follows: Mistle Thrush (up to 4) These may have been locally bred birds or passage migrants.… Continue

Added by Des Bowring on October 18, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Bristol Parks Forum

........... Bristol Parks Forum is the umbrella organisation for community park groups and organisations in the city with an interest in their local parks and green spaces. You can find their website listed under 'other' in our Useful Links section. Strictly speaking it is the group that is a member of the BPF, though they are happy to add several people from each group to the mailing list. Also anyone from the group is welcome to attend BPF meetings, though strictly speaking the… Continue

Added by Jo Corke on October 5, 2009 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

Montpelier Poplars Under Threat Again

COLSTON'S TREES THREAT: POPLAR FRONT TO REUNITE 26 SEPTEMBER 2009 AT 10.30AM: BE THERE TO SHOW YOU CARE Colston's Girls' School is the subject of a planning application submitted in May 2009. Supplementary documents have been posted in September which include felling the remaining black poplars, the very same trees which were saved by protesters in 1989. They omitted to mention this tree felling in their original exhibition leaflet too. The application also includes felling the plane tree on t… Continue

Added by Des Bowring on September 24, 2009 at 6:14pm — 3 Comments

Bird Walk 20 September

It was a great turn-out for the first bird walk after the summer break, but actually seeing any birds was a challenge due to the leaf cover, so we contented ourselves with getting to grips with songs and calls. The highlight was a superb Grey Wagtail which spent time on the usually biologically sterile bowling green! List of birds seen and heard as follows: Robin (many - including lots singing and calling) Greenfinch (1) Great Tit (seemed everywhere!) Coal Tit (heard briefly) Blue Tit (heard br… Continue

Added by Des Bowring on September 20, 2009 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Area Green Space Plan - St Andrews Park

Did anyone go to the Area Green Space Plan Meeting at the County Ground? & if so what was proposed by Richard Fletcher & the Council? Doug Continue

Added by Doug Reid on July 27, 2009 at 1:41pm — 3 Comments

Your chance to comment on Montpelier Park proposals!

Here are the three proposals for the refurbishment of Montpelier Park. Please feel free to comment on the form provided below. The consultation ends on 17th July. Concept Proposal 1.pdf … Continue

Added by Des Bowring on June 25, 2009 at 11:16pm — No Comments

Neighbourhood Partnership

St Andrews Park is in the Redland ward, so we are in the Bishopston, Cotham and Redland (BCR) NP. This is the appropriate map. http://www.voscur.org/system/files/redland_0.pdf It seems likely that some of you reading this website have already been involved in the BCR launch. We are looking for someone to represent the Park’s interests, so if you are interested, please let me know! In the meantime, as I appear to be a liaison… Continue

Added by Jo Corke on June 24, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Play Area development

Play Area Update June 2009

Anna King is our Play Area convenor. Anna met with Vicki Abel of Bristol Parks to talk about further funding for the play area, and the time scale for the play area development. The aim of the Bristol City Council funding (the £85,000) is to improve the existing play area, and increase play equipment for… Continue

Added by Jo Corke on June 10, 2009 at 11:41am — 3 Comments

Make your wildlife observations count!

I work at Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC) as a volunteer, and I would urge anyone to send in records of the wildlife they see in the park. The centre has literally millions of records and is busy digitizing them - a mammoth task. The database is an invaluable tool with which to identify key wildlife sites and threatened habitats throughout the Bristol region, and it would be great to see St Andrews Park well and truly put on the map and recognised as a wildlife haven, leadi… Continue

Added by Des Bowring on June 1, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

BBQ?

Is there support for raising funds to build a communal BBQ installation in the park? It might deter some people from ruining the grass with their portable barbies. Also very social. Continue

Added by Mary Finnigan on June 1, 2009 at 4:33pm — 26 Comments

Save Our Green Spaces

The aim is to oppose the removal of the Green Belt status from hundreds of acres of land around Bristol for the development of urban extensions. Check out their website which was sent to us by Bristol Parks Forum for considera… Continue

Added by Jo Corke on May 23, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

web site for area

I have just uploaded a web site about St. Andrews and Bishopston including the Park. Comments very welcome. www.walkwithus.co.uk Continue

Added by David Cemlyn on May 22, 2009 at 3:34pm — 1 Comment

Josephine Shepard

How can we remove and block such posts? And why on earth did she target this site?? Continue

Added by Valerie Karatzas on May 22, 2009 at 1:17pm — No Comments

Josephine Shepard

Could we please have all posts by this "Josephine Shepard" removed as soon as possible Thanks, Doug Continue

Added by Doug Reid on May 22, 2009 at 9:15am — 1 Comment

Bird Walk 17 May

Despite heavy rain before and after the walk, another good turnout proved that members of the local community are certainly not fair weather birdwatchers! As it transpired, we enjoyed a sunny start and a dry hour for strolling around the park. The highlight was watching a Blue Tit entering and leaving one of the nestboxes we erected in the autumn. The birds seen or heard were as follows: Blue Tit - three or four birds seen and heard, including the nestbox occupier Great Tit Coal Tit - one heard… Continue

Added by Des Bowring on May 17, 2009 at 1:46pm — 1 Comment

Simon Randolph

I would like to thank Simon Randolph for his magnificent photographs in the Photos section. His attention to detail is marvellous & his knowledge of the Flora & Fauna but more than that some of his general views of the Park are breathtaking having been taken at all times of the Year. Thanks, Doug Reid Continue

Added by Doug Reid on May 9, 2009 at 7:24pm — 1 Comment

Mission Accomplished!!

I have now completed the painting of the legs in Black & the varnishing, 2 coats of Mahogany Dacrylate Varnish to all 33 benches in the Park!! The Council provided all the materials, Paint, Varnish, surgical gloves, brushes & sandpaper. Sarah Mc Murchie is going to do the last one with her Grandchildren this weekend as she wanted to "adopt a Bench". It's been a hard slog but it was done with "Friends of St Andrews Park" in mind & probably would not have been attempted had Judith… Continue

Added by Doug Reid on May 9, 2009 at 1:14pm — No Comments