Monthly Archives: February 2013

Parkinson’s Park At Living in Aireborough

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Friends of Engine Fields and Parkinson's Park, man the Green Space Stand

Friends of Engine Fields and Parkinson’s Park, man the Green Space Stand

The Friends of Parkinson’s Park, joined with The Friends of Engine Fields, yesterday (Saturday 23rd February) at a Living in Aireborough – pop-up exhibition and vintage tea room, in Yeadon Town Hall,  organized by the Aireborough Neighbourhood Forum.  

As well as highlighting all the great work done by local Friends groups in upgrading valuable green-space in the area,  the Friends stand also asked visitors to pinpoint on a map where their favourite green spaces in Aireborough are.

This map will be built up over the coming weeks ataireborough poster v2 further pop-up events,  as part of the work of the Aireborough Neighbourhood Forum to identify the green spaces in the area for the future and make sure it has the right designation in the new Leeds Local Development Framework.

If you want to nominate your favourite and most used green spaces you can list them below in the comments section .

New Housing Development For Guiseley

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Andy & Darren Fix Up The New Boxes

Andy & Darren Fix Up The New Boxes

A new housing development went up in Parkinson’s Park this morning.  Darren Shepherd and Andy Cheetham, braved heady heights,  to nail a number of affordable homes for bats and birds to various trees around the park.

The boxes were donated by Peter and Joanna Brooks,  of Brooks Ecological, and were put in locations suitable for their hoped for inhabitants.  The bat boxes were places in a south facing direction, as high as the ‘developers’ dared, and had steps sawed into them for easier climbing (for the bats).   Apparently the bats like to live close together, so there are around three per tree.

The bird boxes were put facing north east – although colder there is less wind, (the prevailing wind is from the west) and less chance of ‘fried’ chick, should the sun deign to shine.

Now all we have to hope for is that some residents find them desireable enought to inhabit!!