The following tree works will be carried out in the near future: Location 1: Reduce the height of 3 trees Locations 2 and 3: Fell several groups of small trees Locations 4 and 5: Remedial work to dead trees leaving 2m high monolith Location 6: Remedial work to low-hanging large tree branch
Haymaking is scheduled to start next week. For operational reasons the Ecology Centre Car Park will be closed on the mornings of 17 & 18 July
The roads around Mitcham Common will have their verges flailed on 21st-22nd June.
Spraying is taking place on Mitcham Common 7 islands near Cedars Avenue and on Bidders subsites on 28th and 29th May. This is to control bramble and tree regeneration.
Over the next few months, visitors to the Common may notice a drone being flown in the vicinity of One Island Pond and the Bidder Memorial. The drone pilot has been commissioned by the Conservators to undertake a filmmaking project on the Common.
The tall Lombardy Poplar, located on the eastern side of The Meadows flatted development on Commonside East, is scheduled to be pruned this week
During May 2025, four new benches will be installed on Mitcham Common. These are replacing benches that have come to the end of their life. The locations are on the map below.
For several months water has been seeping from the Common onto the highway. A Thames Water pipe runs under the Common near to where the water is emerging. Officers are of the view that this is the likely source of the leak. Thames Water has tested the water ponding on the road and advised that…
Last Summer SGN undertook gas mains replacement works on the Common. Some of the required reinstatement was delay until this Spring. Towards the end of April the following works will be carried out on the land parcels shown on the attached map. Parcel A: Replace footpath and damaged signage. Re-seed disturbed area with wildflower seed…
A new bin has been installed on the footpath linking Brookmead Road and Redhouse Road (see photo). This is initially for a trial period. If the bin gets used for dumping domestic rubbish, it will be removed. The bin near Southampton Gardens has been removed because it was being used for dumping domestic rubbish.
On Good Friday parishioners of St Michael’s Church in Pollards Hill will walk their traditional ‘Way of the Cross’ procession. This year part of the route will be on Mitcham Common
The Fair will be arriving on Saturday 29th March and will be open over the period 5th-21st April from early afternoon until 10pm in the evening
The following tree works will be carried out in the near future: Dead/ dying roadside trees numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, 10 and 16 will be felled. Dying trees numbered 11, 12, 13 and 14 will be felled Remedial works to trees numbered 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 15. Tree locations are shown on…
In the near future the following tree works will be undertaken: Multi-stemmed Willows numbers 1, 3, 4, 5 and 11 on the attached map will be coppiced Poplars numbered 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and10 on the attached map will be reduced in height
At the end of January – early February, scrub will be cleared on the Gunsite as part of the acid grassland restoration program. The map below details the location. Gunsite scrub clearance map