This is imperative for butterflies. Please help preserve them. Small in size, they are yet so important. HUGS TO ALL WHO CARE FROM TEXAS
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Tanya Williams
11 years ago
Hope
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Rosie Adams
11 years ago
Amazing that you now have in this green and pleasant land, the kind of 'land management' that is swelling the US - where there is plenty of land but no wildlife! Is this designed to 'soften our senses' toward more housing development, fracking, quarrying, mining and drilling where it may all take place? What is land without the flower heads stirring in the breeze, busy with bees, hoverflies and butterflies. Please - get out of your ivory towers and broadcast some wildflower meadow seeds and wait to WATCH THEM GROW. Our Council is the same. Every time a daisy pops it's head above the ground - they send out the senseless strimmers! When I complained I was told they have to be 'seen to manage' - I suggested to them that it was obviously less of a bother to find someone to strim them all down than it was to find people who would care for and nurture actual flowers! No answer!
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julian orbach
11 years ago
Butterfly conservation and low maintenance, seems a winner
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julian orbach
11 years ago
Butterfly conservation and low maintenance, seems a winner
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julian orbach
11 years ago
An excellent scheme
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Tara McSweeney
11 years ago
When so many species are in decline, it is essential that we make adjustments to the way we manage our green spaces and public spaces in order to try to halt or reverse that decline.
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aran byrne
11 years ago
We need to protect the bees and the butterflies, they are vital to camden's green spaces!
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Hannah Hope
11 years ago
Great and beautiful idea.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
This is an excellent cause, I am very glad to see people really care about the survival of a diverse natural ecosystem in urban environments. I recently recovered from an illness, and my time spent in green spaces around the hospital made the largest difference to my recovery. They must be championed and preserved.
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john swords
11 years ago
Yes. Great idea for the environment.
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Jeremy Wight
11 years ago
100% agree with the thoughts behind this.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Very important and worthwhile project
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Birgit Lambrechts
11 years ago
You can't have enough nature in London and this project has only positives. It's sad that this petition is needed at all. Good luck.
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Deirdre Yager
11 years ago
It is vital that we keep this lovely meadow as it should be and in the right condition to provide homes for butterflies and other wildlife and wild flowers
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Anonymous
12 years ago
What is so hard about our community getting together to make things happen? Hampstead Green has been an eye sore for a decade and if someone what's to take up the cause let's support James 200%!
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Michael Taylor
12 years ago
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I am the Chairman of St. Stephen's Trust and have dedicated 15 years of my life fundraising to restore St Stephen's - only to have The Green in such a sorry state next door that it detracts from everything we have done. Yes, please let us have a Conservation Garden - butterflies, bees, birds and native trees and flowers to go with them. Good Luck Jim
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Martin Warren
12 years ago
Well done James, this is a thoroughly worthwhile project and I wish you every success. We need everyone to do their bit to help save butterflies so I hope Camden heed your advice and help the Green become full of butterflies.
Dr Martin Warren
Chief Executive, Butterfly Conservation
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consuela stan
12 years ago
Good luck James
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Mrs Andrea Taylor
12 years ago
I am one of probably very few people who grew up here and remember Hampstead Green as it was from the 1940's until the Hampstead General Hospital was destroyed. It was a beautiful meadow of Spring flowers in the early part of the year, daffodils and then bluebells a little later and neatly kept grass through the Summer - above ground there were birds, bees and butterflies. The trees were perfect.
From the 1970's when Camden took charge of the piece of land (land donated and dedicated for the patients of the Hampstead General Hospital) Hampstead Green has been a constant disgrace, Camden pretending they were keeping it as a wild meadow whereas in fact it just became a rat-infested rubbish tip and home for vagrants. It was perhaps difficult to tackle that issue whilst St. Stephen's next door was in such a sorry state but once I had finished supporting my husband and St. Stephen's Trust in restoring St. Stephen's and landscaping its grounds I was able to turn my attention to the vastly neglected situation on the Green. I have been fighting for Hampstead Green to be restored to its original state since 2003 and it has been a long and hard struggle to get anywhere at all, and that isn't far. We have seen some improvement of care and attention thanks to Councillor Linda Chung, but it is still for much of each year an unkempt and wasted piece of land. I do feel that James's ideas are at least beneficial for nature and the people - a butterfly garden may not be the flower meadow of the past but it will have some of its characteristics and it will be a thousand times better than what we have now. Butterflies and some varieties of bees as well as some birds are at great risk and we should all be supportive of anything that can help them to survive and flourish.
Please succeed James - please support him everyone.
This is imperative for butterflies. Please help preserve them. Small in size, they are yet so important. HUGS TO ALL WHO CARE FROM TEXAS
Hope
Amazing that you now have in this green and pleasant land, the kind of 'land management' that is swelling the US - where there is plenty of land but no wildlife! Is this designed to 'soften our senses' toward more housing development, fracking, quarrying, mining and drilling where it may all take place? What is land without the flower heads stirring in the breeze, busy with bees, hoverflies and butterflies. Please - get out of your ivory towers and broadcast some wildflower meadow seeds and wait to WATCH THEM GROW. Our Council is the same. Every time a daisy pops it's head above the ground - they send out the senseless strimmers! When I complained I was told they have to be 'seen to manage' - I suggested to them that it was obviously less of a bother to find someone to strim them all down than it was to find people who would care for and nurture actual flowers! No answer!
Butterfly conservation and low maintenance, seems a winner
Butterfly conservation and low maintenance, seems a winner
An excellent scheme
When so many species are in decline, it is essential that we make adjustments to the way we manage our green spaces and public spaces in order to try to halt or reverse that decline.
We need to protect the bees and the butterflies, they are vital to camden's green spaces!
Great and beautiful idea.
This is an excellent cause, I am very glad to see people really care about the survival of a diverse natural ecosystem in urban environments. I recently recovered from an illness, and my time spent in green spaces around the hospital made the largest difference to my recovery. They must be championed and preserved.
Yes. Great idea for the environment.
100% agree with the thoughts behind this.
Very important and worthwhile project
You can't have enough nature in London and this project has only positives. It's sad that this petition is needed at all. Good luck.
It is vital that we keep this lovely meadow as it should be and in the right condition to provide homes for butterflies and other wildlife and wild flowers
What is so hard about our community getting together to make things happen? Hampstead Green has been an eye sore for a decade and if someone what's to take up the cause let's support James 200%!
I am the Chairman of St. Stephen's Trust and have dedicated 15 years of my life fundraising to restore St Stephen's - only to have The Green in such a sorry state next door that it detracts from everything we have done. Yes, please let us have a Conservation Garden - butterflies, bees, birds and native trees and flowers to go with them. Good Luck Jim
Well done James, this is a thoroughly worthwhile project and I wish you every success. We need everyone to do their bit to help save butterflies so I hope Camden heed your advice and help the Green become full of butterflies. Dr Martin Warren Chief Executive, Butterfly Conservation
Good luck James
I am one of probably very few people who grew up here and remember Hampstead Green as it was from the 1940's until the Hampstead General Hospital was destroyed. It was a beautiful meadow of Spring flowers in the early part of the year, daffodils and then bluebells a little later and neatly kept grass through the Summer - above ground there were birds, bees and butterflies. The trees were perfect. From the 1970's when Camden took charge of the piece of land (land donated and dedicated for the patients of the Hampstead General Hospital) Hampstead Green has been a constant disgrace, Camden pretending they were keeping it as a wild meadow whereas in fact it just became a rat-infested rubbish tip and home for vagrants. It was perhaps difficult to tackle that issue whilst St. Stephen's next door was in such a sorry state but once I had finished supporting my husband and St. Stephen's Trust in restoring St. Stephen's and landscaping its grounds I was able to turn my attention to the vastly neglected situation on the Green. I have been fighting for Hampstead Green to be restored to its original state since 2003 and it has been a long and hard struggle to get anywhere at all, and that isn't far. We have seen some improvement of care and attention thanks to Councillor Linda Chung, but it is still for much of each year an unkempt and wasted piece of land. I do feel that James's ideas are at least beneficial for nature and the people - a butterfly garden may not be the flower meadow of the past but it will have some of its characteristics and it will be a thousand times better than what we have now. Butterflies and some varieties of bees as well as some birds are at great risk and we should all be supportive of anything that can help them to survive and flourish. Please succeed James - please support him everyone.