We are really excited to announce a new Stay and Play starting on Tuesday mornings at Mousehold Hub on Mousehold Avenue. It will run from 10am to 12 o’clock, for people to bring their babies and toddlers aged 0-5. See below for details on how to book a session… A couple of us parents in …
This is the opportunity to come and say what you love and hate about the Pockthorpe community proposed ideas. We are calling it a wider community day, but I guess really it’s the council consultation.The hub on Mousehold Ave is kindly letting us use their coffee shop. We will have display boards and a suggestion …
Sunday 19 September 2021 is Norfolk Car-Free Day – an initiative that started with 2019’s Norwich Car-Free Day before going countywide last year. For this year’s event the focus is on Play Streets. Play Streets are a brilliantly simple concept: roads are temporarily closed to general motor traffic (often for just a few hours) to …
PresentLiz Smith-Dane, Rob Bakewell, Shelley Donaghie, Billie Anna-Tony, Tony Moore, Bekka Quantrill-Tozer, Nicki Collins.ApologiesGary Champion.Decisions⦁ Agreed that Shelley will act as Chair, Rob as Deputy Chair, Liz as Treasurer, and Tony as Secretary until elections are held at the first General Meeting⦁ Adopted revised wording of the PCG’s Aims for the Constitution⦁ Consultation meeting to …
Residents noticed the area surrounding Heath Road Park has been a little neglected. The park itself is usually clean and tidy and the kids love playing there. The twirly slide especially gets lots of praise! But the flower beds outside the park have become overgrown with weeds and were full of litter. We found out …
A few months into litter picking we discovered the area around the Sandy Park (Gertrude Road) park used to be a horse riding school. Which closed down in the 90’s. We still have the ‘careful horses crossing’ road sign on Mousehold Ave! Charlie Buck’s stables were on the George White playing field and slope next …
* wild areas of Sandy park slope and Kett’s cave* Gertrude Road and Mousehold Avenue. Me, Rob and Tony just had an amazing meeting with Will the Mousehold warden (on his lunch break, not in an official way). He loves our wild view on this project. This project is very much for what is best …
Most, if not all, of the green Open Reach and Virgin boxes in our area have been vandalised with Graffiti, so we asked residents if, in the event of granted permission, they’d like local artists and community groups to repaint them with creative and colourful community art work. The aim is to not only brighten …
We are planning to paint our open reach street cabinets Read More »
I think it’s important to start this blog by understanding how the council works first. It’s divided up into Norfolk county council and Norwich City Council. NCC manage our children play parks and open green spaces. The County council manage our roadside verges and pavements. So not everything that happens within the city, is in …
As a community we have been meeting up regularly to litter pick around the Kett’s Cave on Morley Street in Norwich, NR3 this is on the opposite side of the road to the Sandy Park, which we have nearly litter-free now. The long-term plan is to create green corridors allowing our city-dwelling animals to pass …
