Over the past couple of years, social enterprise company GrowN22 and volunteers from the community have worked hard to create the Westbury Banks Nature Reserve. Just off the busy Westbury Road in Wood Green, it’s 150 metres long and is made up of 4 different banks that boast:
- a variety of plants
- a walkway
- a rockery
- a pond
- bug hotels
Project manager Luke Newcombe of GrowN22 said:
The possibilities are endless. Before we came along it was pretty much a jungle and the amount of fly-tipping here was just unbelievable. We cleared out 3 tonnes’ worth! Two years on and we’ve done all this work and have created a great log staircase for people to walk down into the reserve.
The reserve is a Noel Park Big Local initiative managed by GrowN22. The Noel Park community was given money to celebrate what is great about Noel Park so residents decided to provide the initial funding for Grow N22 to start work on the reserve.