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• Managing Organisation:

  Plumstead Common Environment Group

• Contact:

  Nicolas Day

• Telephone:

  07973205846 

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Information about this open space

The PCEG was formed in 1991 by a small group of like-minded people, concerned that our local environment was suffering from a lack of care. In addition to our work on the general environment of Plumstead Common, we have undertaken, with the agreement and cooperation of Greenwich Council, to directly manage two specific areas: the Slade Ponds and the Plumstead Common Nature Reserve. Where we do not have the necessary expertise or resources the council will cooperate with necessary remedial and management work.  The Slade Ponds have been our most ambitious project to date. The pond had been severely polluted for years. Drawing upon expertise within the group, we designed and built a gravel reed bed and weir system to improve water quality and provide a wildlife habitat. Since installing two floating duck platforms our now resident ducks and moorhens have been successfully breeding each year. Regular work sessions and litter picks take place at the site on two Sundays each month under the supervision of a dedicated co-ordinator.  Unfortunately the area suffers from constant vandalism and graffiti.We collect from the area of about one acre a minimum of twenty sacks of litter a month, together with assorted larger items ranging from discarded furniture to bicycles and shopping trolleys.  The Slade Ponds are a beautiful wildlife haven and resource at Plumstead Common, which was wrested from private development by the local people in the Plumstead Common Riots of 1876.  Now it is maintained and cherished for the people by the people.