Rycote Meadow restoration – Thame Green Living

Overview

Thame Green Living has been invited by the Town Council to oversee the provision of a new path from the Thame Meadows estate across Rycote Meadow to Oxford Road. In addition, a plan will be developed for enhancing the biodiversity of the Meadow as a place for quiet recreation. Thame Green Living will be working with the Cuttle Brook Local Nature Reserve – the main part of the Cuttle Brook Nature Reserve is situated directly opposite Rycote Meadow on the south side of Oxford Road. This will be a 3-year staged delivery.

Objectives

Year 1 :
- To design, specify and cost a new path (to be paid for from planning funds)
- To commissioning flora and bird surveys of the site to inform the conservation plans
- To design a planting scheme and an overall scheme for the area
To protect the ecologically sensitive parts of the site, by introducing features such as hedges
To engage with the local community in order to build support and a team of volunteers committed to looking after the Meadow
To develop and commission appropriate signage to explain the importance of the site.
To fundraise for elements not covered by planning funds.

Impact

Agreement from TTC on the proposed project brief
Flora and bird surveys commissioned

Next steps

Further development of the design and determine site layout of the new pathway

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Latest project news

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The new Thame Outer Circuit walking route
March 17, 2021 by Charles Boundy
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February 2, 2021 by Colin Bloxham
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New bio-diverse habitat created on Greyhound Lane
January 4, 2021 by Harriet Woollard
Churchill Retirement Living has teamed up with Thame Green Living on plans to create a new ‘bio-diverse’ area of land opposite the Yeats Lodge development on Greyhound Lane. Prompted by support for the ‘natural world’ principles embraced in the Thame Green Living plan, Churchill Retirement Living will landscape and plant the area with a variety […]

Project Team

Dom Gabriele, Charles Boundy, Colin Bloxham, Lynne May – Thame Green Living
Nigel Sims
Hilary Phillips – River Thame Conservation Trust
Mike Furness – Cuttle Brook Local Nature Reserve
Ava Gabriele

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Project type:
Green Spaces

Project status:
Current

Project start:
February 2021

Project end:
Spring 2024 (expected)