Category Archives: General

Environment Agency August 2022 Briefing for Clifton Ings Flood Alleviation Scheme

Posted on 1 August, 2022 by greatemancipator
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Update on the Clifton Ings Flood Alleviation Scheme April 2022

Posted on 13 April, 2022 by greatemancipator

Latest update from the Environment Agency. Rather like Downing Street believe what you will… Clifton FAQs 2022 FINAL Clifton and Rawcliffe briefing April 22 FINAL

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Environment Agency December 2021 Newsletter

Posted on 21 December, 2021 by greatemancipator
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York Flood Alleviation Scheme – EA Update on the Clifton Ings Flood Alleviation Scheme-November 2021

Posted on 2 November, 2021 by greatemancipator

Clifton and Rawcliffe briefing Nov 21 FINAL

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Monitoring of Grassland Creation Plots at Rawcliffe Meadows 2021

Posted on 30 August, 2021 by greatemancipator

As well as restoring the main meadows at Rawcliffe Meadows between 1991 and 2013, Friends of Rawcliffe Meadows (FoRM) attempted to establish species-rich grassland on a number of degraded plots bordering the main meadow. Although FoRM are no longer managing … Continue reading →

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Rawcliffe Meadows Update – May 2020 Number 2

Posted on 24 May, 2020 by greatemancipator

On Friday 22nd May 2020 we received a letter from the Environment Agency informing us that they would be removing hedges and trees on Rawcliffe Meadows from Monday 25th May 2020 onward. Of course they still have to fulfill the … Continue reading →

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Rawcliffe Meadows Work Party Report 15th December 2019

Posted on 15 December, 2019 by greatemancipator

The weather forecast appears to have been wrong again as three of us (Mick, Pete and Masha) spent a pleasant couple of hours tidying up the Copse at the north of the site with a break for mince pies and … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Rawcliffe Meadows

Posted on 4 September, 2019 by greatemancipator

Officers recommend approval of the Environment Agency’s plans. https://democracy.york.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=132&MId=11246 Planning Committee 12th September 2019 4:30 pm “The role of the Friends of Rawcliffe in managing the area will be in jeopardy and their funding will be lost; however this cannot … Continue reading →

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Rawcliffe Meadows Work Party Report 11th August 2019

Posted on 11 August, 2019 by greatemancipator

We’d ignored the Bee Bank for a few months but now was time to cut back encroaching vegetation. Fortunately for Mick the three people who had said they couldn’t make it did and so he wasn’t on his own. Whilst … Continue reading →

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Rawcliffe Meadows Work Party 7th June 6:30 pm onward at Pond

Posted on 30 May, 2019 by greatemancipator

Just a quick reminder that we hope to be at the main Pond at the south of the site managing the competing vegetation around the Tansy plants there and along the nearby Ings Dyke. If you have any shears they … Continue reading →

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