Treegate Campaign updates
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Treegate Campaigners. “Best Allies and worst nightmare”
Our Treegate Team met with Network Rail managers and others after Easter 2019 to review our experiences over the full year of the Campaign (see Website) and discuss the completion of works and future management.
Our team (Robert Wilson, Francesca Caine, John Leatherdale, Gillian Henley, Cllr Elaine Hayward, Mike Daisley) lined up round the table with The Tree Council (Sara Lom and Jon Stokes), three sets of NR managers (Thameslink Resilience Programme, Route Asset Management, and Environment & Sustainable Management leader Neil Strong) and the contractors (Martins).
There are positive outcomes on all three main subjects: Hadley Wood works, HW Trial and Replanting, NR future vegetation management (intelligent tree felling; proper communication). NR’s TRP managers have repeatedly said that they wish to promote lessons learned from Treegate across NR, as well as making good in Hadley Wood. Tree Council have encouraged this in high level talks. This is now a reality. We have been told that the Route (LNE) senior Asset Managers have agreed to adopt our Trial (on all four banks) and to implement the “intelligent” vegetation management established in consultation with us for all future projects on the Route. Neil aims to integrate the model across NR, supported by Varley recommendations. A key influence on their discussions was the need to avoid another Treegate, with our Team described as “best allies and worst nightmare”. Hadley Wood is a high profile lesson for them, learning the need to avoid strong community reaction with consequent delays.
The Route will start a new programme of lineside works in November, starting with our neighbours on the Hertford Loop. This time they will survey at senior level (Neil Strong and Jon Stokes), give a detailed specification to contractors and monitor with a tree expert who will also be involved with other local works. They will engage with communities in advance and hold Information Meetings. Real progress! The main Trial site is now established on the West Bank with six fenced plots and thirty larger trees. The community planted whips are growing strongly. The seeds are beginning to show in large numbers. The trees are doing well and will now be protected from our montjac deer. The Route will maintain the Trial for three years and make good if any part fails. The Tree Council will check regularly. The Trial should show the best and most cost effective way to regenerate tracksides. The Tree Council agreed to include drone surveys by Hugh Small (with John Leatherdale (page 11) as part of monitoring the Trial. The discussion on wider replanting on the other three banks has moved from whether to how. The Route has committed to the extended trial and detailed plans are being produced by Tree Council in advance of autumn planting. The current ideas are for arrays of trees on the East Bank and on the South West (Parkgate) bank - which should help reduce noise. The variety of trees will include species that can be an experiment for traditional ones now largely ignored. We can give our ideas. The South East bank is steep and rocky. The idea is to plant trees on that slope where they can.
The Station Garden has also been confirmed in the more expensive but safer form of raised beds (sleepers), to avoid digging into underground cables. The contractors are now quoting, but the agreement in principle was achieved at our April meeting. Another success was TRP agreement to pay for the use of the Centre for meetings over the last year (£1,500) and for the ecologists to come here to meet some residents.
Francesca Caine and I have been invited to a Varley Review in June, now with a real sense that Network Rail vegetation management will be done better in future.
Robert Wilson Chairman, HWA on behalf of the Treegate Team
Our Treegate Team met with Network Rail managers and others after Easter 2019 to review our experiences over the full year of the Campaign (see Website) and discuss the completion of works and future management.
Our team (Robert Wilson, Francesca Caine, John Leatherdale, Gillian Henley, Cllr Elaine Hayward, Mike Daisley) lined up round the table with The Tree Council (Sara Lom and Jon Stokes), three sets of NR managers (Thameslink Resilience Programme, Route Asset Management, and Environment & Sustainable Management leader Neil Strong) and the contractors (Martins).
There are positive outcomes on all three main subjects: Hadley Wood works, HW Trial and Replanting, NR future vegetation management (intelligent tree felling; proper communication). NR’s TRP managers have repeatedly said that they wish to promote lessons learned from Treegate across NR, as well as making good in Hadley Wood. Tree Council have encouraged this in high level talks. This is now a reality. We have been told that the Route (LNE) senior Asset Managers have agreed to adopt our Trial (on all four banks) and to implement the “intelligent” vegetation management established in consultation with us for all future projects on the Route. Neil aims to integrate the model across NR, supported by Varley recommendations. A key influence on their discussions was the need to avoid another Treegate, with our Team described as “best allies and worst nightmare”. Hadley Wood is a high profile lesson for them, learning the need to avoid strong community reaction with consequent delays.
The Route will start a new programme of lineside works in November, starting with our neighbours on the Hertford Loop. This time they will survey at senior level (Neil Strong and Jon Stokes), give a detailed specification to contractors and monitor with a tree expert who will also be involved with other local works. They will engage with communities in advance and hold Information Meetings. Real progress! The main Trial site is now established on the West Bank with six fenced plots and thirty larger trees. The community planted whips are growing strongly. The seeds are beginning to show in large numbers. The trees are doing well and will now be protected from our montjac deer. The Route will maintain the Trial for three years and make good if any part fails. The Tree Council will check regularly. The Trial should show the best and most cost effective way to regenerate tracksides. The Tree Council agreed to include drone surveys by Hugh Small (with John Leatherdale (page 11) as part of monitoring the Trial. The discussion on wider replanting on the other three banks has moved from whether to how. The Route has committed to the extended trial and detailed plans are being produced by Tree Council in advance of autumn planting. The current ideas are for arrays of trees on the East Bank and on the South West (Parkgate) bank - which should help reduce noise. The variety of trees will include species that can be an experiment for traditional ones now largely ignored. We can give our ideas. The South East bank is steep and rocky. The idea is to plant trees on that slope where they can.
The Station Garden has also been confirmed in the more expensive but safer form of raised beds (sleepers), to avoid digging into underground cables. The contractors are now quoting, but the agreement in principle was achieved at our April meeting. Another success was TRP agreement to pay for the use of the Centre for meetings over the last year (£1,500) and for the ecologists to come here to meet some residents.
Francesca Caine and I have been invited to a Varley Review in June, now with a real sense that Network Rail vegetation management will be done better in future.
Robert Wilson Chairman, HWA on behalf of the Treegate Team
TREEGATE HANDOVER AFTER YEAR LONG CAMPAIGN’S SUCCESS
The Treegate Campaign was started a year ago by Hadley Wood Association and Hadley Wood Rail User Group and managed since last June by HWA for implementation of the Network Rail (Thameslink Resilience Programme) commitments given to the community at the public meeting. We have persistently engaged with the TRP project managers, keeping good relations with them, their contractors and subcontractors, and the Tree Council. This has been time consuming and not always efficient or easy, but the main outcomes have been achieved. We shall have an event in April with Network Rail and others involved. Jon Calvert (TRP fencing and vegetation project manager) writes: “I feel after the journey we have all been on together proper closure should be in person as a group to reflect and celebrate the highs and lows of the TRP project in the area. This should include some sort of summary of achievements and a run through the lessons learned we created so that we can share and reinforce throughout the industry.”
The original tree cutting (“extreme devegetation”) was stopped and only resumed when an “intelligent” specification was agreed. As a result we have retained nearly all trees on the tunnel portals and surroundings, most of the trees in the Conservation Area and the better trees and shrubs behind the two platforms. We stopped the prison spike new fence toppings and generally gained cooperation where new fencing was installed, with just a couple of neighbour issues. We achieved the green fencing and cut back of overgrowth by the Station bus shelter. The contractors restored and improved the path near the new fence round the back of the Centre up to the Cycle Path, incidentally removing some accumulated rubbish for us.
We have other collateral benefits for the community. HWRUG (in particular Francesca Caine and Gill Henley) succeeded in their efforts to secure lighting for the step free access lane (and a new site for the Biffa Bin), a huge achievement given the difficulties of getting GTR and NR to coordinate. Similar coordination with GTR and NR is still being pursued by HWA to establish everything for our Station Garden. It takes time. HWA have been pressing for removal of all the debris revealed by devegetation, with HWRUG support for the areas round the platforms. This is clearly desirable, but any rail user can see that such debris is everywhere by the railway, so this is a big ask. We do now get special attention for HW, as a result of the campaign and sometimes we get what we want.
The Station Garden and clearance of debris are examples of works which will need NR attention after TRP closes down (end March). We have started meetings with the NR Route’s Delivery Unit which is responsible for ongoing lineside maintenance, with at least positive noises about what they will (may) do. The high profile commitment is to establish and maintain the Hadley Wood Trial, with the major hedgerow trial of six plots with rabbit fencing along Cycle Path for seeds and whips, some half standards on the same bank, and a goat willow hedge behind Parkgate houses. The completion of replanting and the Trial, and its maintenance for the next several years, is being handed over from TRP to the main Route Asset Management but with Tree Council still involved. The involvement of the Rail Minister with John Varley and senior Network Rail management at our Community Planting day, on top of the commitments made at a public meeting in the presence of an MP, Council, Councillors and others give us confidence that promises will be fulfilled. The April Event should see a good completion of all TRP works and solid successor commitments by the Route. A year ago we faced real damage to our environment. Our strong response successfully stopped and mitigated the damage, established our profile and closer relationships with a range of organisations and demonstrated and deepened the community spirit in Hadley Wood channelled through the Association.
Robert Wilson Chairman on behalf of the Trustees of the HWA The Treegate Team
The Treegate Campaign was started a year ago by Hadley Wood Association and Hadley Wood Rail User Group and managed since last June by HWA for implementation of the Network Rail (Thameslink Resilience Programme) commitments given to the community at the public meeting. We have persistently engaged with the TRP project managers, keeping good relations with them, their contractors and subcontractors, and the Tree Council. This has been time consuming and not always efficient or easy, but the main outcomes have been achieved. We shall have an event in April with Network Rail and others involved. Jon Calvert (TRP fencing and vegetation project manager) writes: “I feel after the journey we have all been on together proper closure should be in person as a group to reflect and celebrate the highs and lows of the TRP project in the area. This should include some sort of summary of achievements and a run through the lessons learned we created so that we can share and reinforce throughout the industry.”
The original tree cutting (“extreme devegetation”) was stopped and only resumed when an “intelligent” specification was agreed. As a result we have retained nearly all trees on the tunnel portals and surroundings, most of the trees in the Conservation Area and the better trees and shrubs behind the two platforms. We stopped the prison spike new fence toppings and generally gained cooperation where new fencing was installed, with just a couple of neighbour issues. We achieved the green fencing and cut back of overgrowth by the Station bus shelter. The contractors restored and improved the path near the new fence round the back of the Centre up to the Cycle Path, incidentally removing some accumulated rubbish for us.
We have other collateral benefits for the community. HWRUG (in particular Francesca Caine and Gill Henley) succeeded in their efforts to secure lighting for the step free access lane (and a new site for the Biffa Bin), a huge achievement given the difficulties of getting GTR and NR to coordinate. Similar coordination with GTR and NR is still being pursued by HWA to establish everything for our Station Garden. It takes time. HWA have been pressing for removal of all the debris revealed by devegetation, with HWRUG support for the areas round the platforms. This is clearly desirable, but any rail user can see that such debris is everywhere by the railway, so this is a big ask. We do now get special attention for HW, as a result of the campaign and sometimes we get what we want.
The Station Garden and clearance of debris are examples of works which will need NR attention after TRP closes down (end March). We have started meetings with the NR Route’s Delivery Unit which is responsible for ongoing lineside maintenance, with at least positive noises about what they will (may) do. The high profile commitment is to establish and maintain the Hadley Wood Trial, with the major hedgerow trial of six plots with rabbit fencing along Cycle Path for seeds and whips, some half standards on the same bank, and a goat willow hedge behind Parkgate houses. The completion of replanting and the Trial, and its maintenance for the next several years, is being handed over from TRP to the main Route Asset Management but with Tree Council still involved. The involvement of the Rail Minister with John Varley and senior Network Rail management at our Community Planting day, on top of the commitments made at a public meeting in the presence of an MP, Council, Councillors and others give us confidence that promises will be fulfilled. The April Event should see a good completion of all TRP works and solid successor commitments by the Route. A year ago we faced real damage to our environment. Our strong response successfully stopped and mitigated the damage, established our profile and closer relationships with a range of organisations and demonstrated and deepened the community spirit in Hadley Wood channelled through the Association.
Robert Wilson Chairman on behalf of the Trustees of the HWA The Treegate Team
Railway Trial, Trees & Fencing works near completion
The Hadley Wood Association continue to press Network Rail on the implementation of their works to complete Thameslink’s Resilience Programme around our Station and tunnels.
Following the successful Community Planting Day on 28 November (see below), we are in regular communication with NR to ensure the fencing and tree works (by separate subcontractors) are done as promised and keeping affected residents informed.
New fencing is now in place above the North tunnel on the HWA boundary and on both sides of the Station, and around the Conservation Area. This includes the fencing by the bus stop with clearance of the encroaching ivy and branches. There is only minor fencing left to complete by Newman’s Way with some treasured old mesh fencing allowed to remain. On several stretches the existing palisade fencing has been retained, avoiding more devegetation particularly over the South Tunnel.
Tree works were resumed after the New Year. The full wooded portal north of the Station remains intact and behind Platform 1 all vegetation remains apart from sycamore and ash. However these works in the middle of winter, and before site clearance of newly exposed debris, have left us again with a stark landscape including high stumps along the access road. However this is not Treegate 2 but “pollarding” which will allow us keep mature trees recovering foliage quickly. The ecologists attend every day and say nothing is being disturbed at this time of year. They have agreed to meet with a group of residents to share their knowledge of our wildlife corridor, a first event of our HWA Environmental Group. The Trial site also looks stark, but has the promise of much better tree cover before long. It should all be planted or seeded within February. The new hedge replanting behind Parkgate is scheduled as the last tree works. The Station garden area will be cleared for us.
The Hadley Wood Association continue to press Network Rail on the implementation of their works to complete Thameslink’s Resilience Programme around our Station and tunnels.
Following the successful Community Planting Day on 28 November (see below), we are in regular communication with NR to ensure the fencing and tree works (by separate subcontractors) are done as promised and keeping affected residents informed.
New fencing is now in place above the North tunnel on the HWA boundary and on both sides of the Station, and around the Conservation Area. This includes the fencing by the bus stop with clearance of the encroaching ivy and branches. There is only minor fencing left to complete by Newman’s Way with some treasured old mesh fencing allowed to remain. On several stretches the existing palisade fencing has been retained, avoiding more devegetation particularly over the South Tunnel.
Tree works were resumed after the New Year. The full wooded portal north of the Station remains intact and behind Platform 1 all vegetation remains apart from sycamore and ash. However these works in the middle of winter, and before site clearance of newly exposed debris, have left us again with a stark landscape including high stumps along the access road. However this is not Treegate 2 but “pollarding” which will allow us keep mature trees recovering foliage quickly. The ecologists attend every day and say nothing is being disturbed at this time of year. They have agreed to meet with a group of residents to share their knowledge of our wildlife corridor, a first event of our HWA Environmental Group. The Trial site also looks stark, but has the promise of much better tree cover before long. It should all be planted or seeded within February. The new hedge replanting behind Parkgate is scheduled as the last tree works. The Station garden area will be cleared for us.
Community Planting Day 28th November 2018
Our Community Planting turned out really well, helped by dry weather.
About a hundred people were involved on the bank by the Station, many decked in bright orange hi vis, on the platform and Cycle Path. The Tree Council in particular Jon Stokes ran the show in great style from planting instructions through to managing the open air speeches on to the ceremonial planting with photocalls including children of three generations from our PreSchool, Monken Hadley and The Mount. Network Rail and their contractors were present in force to manage the site and safety.
Our Community Planting turned out really well, helped by dry weather.
About a hundred people were involved on the bank by the Station, many decked in bright orange hi vis, on the platform and Cycle Path. The Tree Council in particular Jon Stokes ran the show in great style from planting instructions through to managing the open air speeches on to the ceremonial planting with photocalls including children of three generations from our PreSchool, Monken Hadley and The Mount. Network Rail and their contractors were present in force to manage the site and safety.
The Rail Minister came together with John Varley for the publication of his Report on Network Rail Vegetation Management. They lauded Hadley Wood as an example of turning round the original devastation to become a significant replanting Trial site.
We started and ended at the Centre for volunteer planters and event helpers. We also gave hospitality at Thymari to the many travelling guests from the Rail industry including GTR and very senior level Network Rail bosses.
We started and ended at the Centre for volunteer planters and event helpers. We also gave hospitality at Thymari to the many travelling guests from the Rail industry including GTR and very senior level Network Rail bosses.
The bank does now look rather bare and tidy, with the wire fenced Trial plots running all the way up alongside the Cycle Path and tons of chippings put on for the event, but this is a major step towards a magnificent and varied new “hedge”.
The presence of senior Network managers as well as Jon Calvert and Phil Maggs (with whom we have been working since March) gave us an opportunity to secure agreement on further replanting on the other banks which suffered devastation - the east bank by the Station and the two banks south of the tunnel between Parkgate and Newmans. The details still have to agreed. We also made progress towards our Station Garden.
The presence of senior Network managers as well as Jon Calvert and Phil Maggs (with whom we have been working since March) gave us an opportunity to secure agreement on further replanting on the other banks which suffered devastation - the east bank by the Station and the two banks south of the tunnel between Parkgate and Newmans. The details still have to agreed. We also made progress towards our Station Garden.
There is a lot of work still to be done, including some new fencing but very little further tree cutting. We have saved hundreds of trees, including most trees on our tunnel portals and conservation area, in Hadley Wood - and up and down the line. We need to keep up the pressure but we should now be in the home straight.
We have also laid the base for an active environmental group in Hadley Wood and connections with Tree Council and other ecology groups, Enfield and local schools.
Thanks again to everyone who helped on the day and in the months leading up to this event, and the widespread community support.
Photographs by Penny Dixie & John Leatherdale
We have also laid the base for an active environmental group in Hadley Wood and connections with Tree Council and other ecology groups, Enfield and local schools.
Thanks again to everyone who helped on the day and in the months leading up to this event, and the widespread community support.
Photographs by Penny Dixie & John Leatherdale
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Treegate Event 17th October 2018
RAILWAY TREE PLANS QUESTIONED BUT BROAD APPROVAL FOR TRIAL Many residents took the opportunity to drop into the Event at HWA Centre to see the displays and hear the details of the Network Rail plans prepared with the Tree Council for works to complete their vegetation management through the Hadley Wood trackside and on the portals of the two tunnels including the Conservation Area. (see below) |
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Network Rail project managers and contractors, with Jon Stokes of Tree Council, answered questions and accepted a number of specific requests for less tree cutting. Jon gave and repeated a presentation about the proposed Hadley Wood Trial, a five year project of comparison sites by the Cycle Path planted by seed and “whips” (saplings) alongside natural regrowth plots.
There will be a Community Tree Planting Day, probably in National Tree Week (24 November to 1 December).
We have been giving Network Rail our feedback and seeking agreement on the final works, scheduled to restart in November. Feedback received has continued to stress the upset at the extreme devegetation and the impact of increased noise and shaking on households particularly in Parkgate and Newmans.
There is approval of the much reduced plans for completing the work, which in itself (with no poisoning of stumps) will help rapid natural regrowth. There is support for the Trial, even though it will postpone the regreening of the West Bank by the Station. Concern has been expressed about the need for good project management and support throughout the trial period (a commitment repeated by Network Rail at the event).
There have been strong views expressed for more replanting particularly between Parkgate and Newmans to mitigate noise, and also on the east bank opposite the Trial for better regrowth.
The Treegate Campaign has already saved hundreds trees in Hadley Wood, and a multiple up and down the line. We have taken the opportunity to be involved in the final plans and look forward to a reasonable outcome after the original horrors.
There will be a Community Tree Planting Day, probably in National Tree Week (24 November to 1 December).
We have been giving Network Rail our feedback and seeking agreement on the final works, scheduled to restart in November. Feedback received has continued to stress the upset at the extreme devegetation and the impact of increased noise and shaking on households particularly in Parkgate and Newmans.
There is approval of the much reduced plans for completing the work, which in itself (with no poisoning of stumps) will help rapid natural regrowth. There is support for the Trial, even though it will postpone the regreening of the West Bank by the Station. Concern has been expressed about the need for good project management and support throughout the trial period (a commitment repeated by Network Rail at the event).
There have been strong views expressed for more replanting particularly between Parkgate and Newmans to mitigate noise, and also on the east bank opposite the Trial for better regrowth.
The Treegate Campaign has already saved hundreds trees in Hadley Wood, and a multiple up and down the line. We have taken the opportunity to be involved in the final plans and look forward to a reasonable outcome after the original horrors.
Drop in event October 2018 click here for the background to this meeting for residents and rail users with Network Rail and the Tree Council at the Hadley Wood Association on Wednesday 17th October.
The importance of this meeting was for the Residents/attendees to give their feedback to Network Rail and the Tree Council on the Plans presented for 1) the Final tree cutting and fencing 2) the Replanting in particular the "Hadley Wood Trial".
The importance of this meeting was for the Residents/attendees to give their feedback to Network Rail and the Tree Council on the Plans presented for 1) the Final tree cutting and fencing 2) the Replanting in particular the "Hadley Wood Trial".
The Treegate Campaign Public Information Event 7th June 2018
The campaign, jointly led by Hadley Wood Association (HWA) and Hadley Wood Rail User Group (HWRUG), delivered a Public Information Event for Hadley Wood residents on Thursday 7th June. Network Rail (NR) issued a letter of invitation and apology to lineside neighbours and fielded a senior team for the event. The leadership team from The Tree Council also participated. For a residents’ record of the meeting, click here.
The HWA Centre Hall was filled with residents and representatives to hear NR’s apology for their “extreme” works undertaken here in the Thameslink Resilience Programme and to express some of the local feelings and concerns.
Representatives included our MP, Ward Councillors, Enfield Council officers, GTR management, Railfuture, leaders of other local rail user groups on our line and leaders of the Grange Park campaign of 2010 when they suffered a similar experience.
Setting the scene for the community, Robert Wilson outlined the impact of NR’s tree felling and fencing works, including extreme devegetation and areas remaining for better management, and Francesca Caine presented Hadley Wood Rail User Group’s campaigning credentials and described the course of the Treegate Campaign to date.
Here are their presentations - Hadley Wood devegetation click here and Hadley Wood Rail User Group campaign credentials click here
NR explained their actions and plans and made some clear commitments which the Treegate Campaign Team will be monitoring closely to an agreed action plan. To review their presentation material click here
The Hadley Wood Trial, the regeneration trial proposed by The Tree Council, received general endorsement and there was enthusiasm for replanting in the worst affected areas outside the trial. You can see their presentation material here
The Treegate Team now needs more members to help achieve the best possible outcome for Hadley Wood through the various commitments made to the meeting by NR. These include vegetation management to the new specification, known as the “Hadley Wood Model”, in our different areas of trackside, ecology monitoring, regeneration plans including replanting and the Hadley Wood Trial, plans for the “station garden” and completion of agreed minor works that will bring benefit to the community. HWRUG has played a pivotal role in establishing and bringing the campaign to this point and will now concentrate fully on its mission to work with the rail industry to achieve the best possible train service and amenities for Hadley Wood. We welcome all offers of help. Please contact:
Hadley Wood Association [email protected]
To read the background of the Treegate Campaign click here
The campaign, jointly led by Hadley Wood Association (HWA) and Hadley Wood Rail User Group (HWRUG), delivered a Public Information Event for Hadley Wood residents on Thursday 7th June. Network Rail (NR) issued a letter of invitation and apology to lineside neighbours and fielded a senior team for the event. The leadership team from The Tree Council also participated. For a residents’ record of the meeting, click here.
The HWA Centre Hall was filled with residents and representatives to hear NR’s apology for their “extreme” works undertaken here in the Thameslink Resilience Programme and to express some of the local feelings and concerns.
Representatives included our MP, Ward Councillors, Enfield Council officers, GTR management, Railfuture, leaders of other local rail user groups on our line and leaders of the Grange Park campaign of 2010 when they suffered a similar experience.
Setting the scene for the community, Robert Wilson outlined the impact of NR’s tree felling and fencing works, including extreme devegetation and areas remaining for better management, and Francesca Caine presented Hadley Wood Rail User Group’s campaigning credentials and described the course of the Treegate Campaign to date.
Here are their presentations - Hadley Wood devegetation click here and Hadley Wood Rail User Group campaign credentials click here
NR explained their actions and plans and made some clear commitments which the Treegate Campaign Team will be monitoring closely to an agreed action plan. To review their presentation material click here
The Hadley Wood Trial, the regeneration trial proposed by The Tree Council, received general endorsement and there was enthusiasm for replanting in the worst affected areas outside the trial. You can see their presentation material here
The Treegate Team now needs more members to help achieve the best possible outcome for Hadley Wood through the various commitments made to the meeting by NR. These include vegetation management to the new specification, known as the “Hadley Wood Model”, in our different areas of trackside, ecology monitoring, regeneration plans including replanting and the Hadley Wood Trial, plans for the “station garden” and completion of agreed minor works that will bring benefit to the community. HWRUG has played a pivotal role in establishing and bringing the campaign to this point and will now concentrate fully on its mission to work with the rail industry to achieve the best possible train service and amenities for Hadley Wood. We welcome all offers of help. Please contact:
Hadley Wood Association [email protected]
To read the background of the Treegate Campaign click here