Tonight’s (16 March) talk by John Handley will include reference to the Landscape Character Assessment. For your info, it is here:

Tonight’s (16 March) talk by John Handley will include reference to the Landscape Character Assessment. For your info, it is here:
We all know now how valuable our peat bogs are in absorbing carbon, so it is really important we don’t buy peat. In previous years we have been depressed by the response “there’s no call for it” from garden centres when asked for peat free, but this year there seems to be much more peat free compost available, and some suppliers are at last growing their plants in peat free compost too. One of our team went out last weekend to try and find out what peat free compost is available where. This list of course may not be exhaustive, and you need to check prices and availability before you set out, but this at least gives you an idea of where you can find peat free compost locally. Words like “eco friendly” and “green” may just be hogwash: check it really is completely peat free when you buy.
List of peat free composts close to Wilmslow area
Listed in no particular order:
F Booths supermarket Hale Barnes (5.4 miles)
NB the Wilmslow garden centre have got mountains of bags of peat (mostly not peat free) ready for the spring rush of gardeners, but the vast majority of people will not know why putting peat compost on their gardens is releasing CO2 to the atmosphere and damaging fragile peatlands. Importantly the price of peat free composts is mostly about the same price as peat containing composts, depending on where you go e.g.:-
The Melcourt Sylvagrow and the Dalefoot composts are all very highly rated by gardeners. They are as good as, or better than peat.
PS Pumpkinbeth.com has an interesting website and she has done comparison trials on different peat free composts.
The tree and woodland group at Transition Wilmslow are looking for more sites for their tree planting projects-helping make Wilmslow a more pleasant place to be, encouraging biodiversity, mitigating floods and air pollution, and reducing global heating. If you share our aims and own, or know an individual or organisation who owns a site where they might like to see trees planted-we can help.
We are working with Cheshire Wildlife Trust and the councils to help develop projects on verges, in parks, at schools and on council land, and would like to see more projects on land privately owned by individuals or organisations. If you can help please email: jonathanprice91@icloud.com
We have been informed that urgent engineering work will begin on the Moss on Monday January 25th. Full details are here:
Transition Wilmslow has supported the campaign for safer streets for nearly a decade. Cllr Suzie Akers-Smith, our cycling and walking commissioner, is proposing a vote for 20mph limits in residential streets (subject to local consultation) next Wednesday 16th December so we need you to act now!
If you could put some supportive comments on this FB page we would be grateful:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1932437730418344/permalink/2756831097978999/
and please write to your local councillors. All details are on http://www.transitionwilmslow.co.uk/transport-2/
If you write to Cllr Goldsmith you will receive a reply that we do not think interprets the evidence correctly. We have posted a fact check of his response on the above page. If you haven’t signed our petition, please do so and circulate to your friends!
https://www.change.org/p/cheshire-east-20-s-plenty-for-cheshire-east
and remember: please do this before Wednesday so your Councillors know that you want safer streets in Wilmslow.
Thank you
Want to know more about the proposed restoration? What’s happening to the water levels? What’s happening to the ecology?
Tuesday 8th December, all welcome, 7.30pm Zoom meeting. Email transitionwilmslow@gmail.com for link.
Our Community Market Garden group wants to get more of us growing fruit and veg; certainly for ourselves but also perhaps for others. Download our flyer, spread the word and please join us: growing your own is good for you, good for the community and good for the planet. What’s not to like?
Our first meeting of the Lindow Moss Community Forum took place on 22nd September, with a large and lively Zoom audience. The notes are here:
We need YOU! to vote on whether the Lindow Moss Liaison Committee designed to provide communication between the community and the restoration team and the council should be set up now or later (survey monkey link in the above document). Please also tell us if you would like to be considered for the Community Forum Panel that we hope will be invited to participate in the Liaison Committee. If you aren’t already on the Save Lindow Moss mailing list, please email us at savelindowmoss@gmail.com
Sarah, Althea and some young helpers have trialled a tree game: feel free to download and share!