January/February
Important Notices to Members!
National Planning Policy Framework. Our Chairman has written
to our MP regarding our concerns. See
detail.
The Finchley Society Forthcoming Events
| February |
March |
- Thursday 23 February 2.30 pm
at Avenue House: Brenda Cole will speak on
‘Tales of Tunnels and Tubes – the London
Underground’
- Brenda has been giving talks to the Finchley
Society since 2006. She is a long-standing member of
the City of London Guide Lecturers Association. The
London Underground system is the oldest and most complex
transport network of its kind in the world. Having been
developed piecemeal since its inception in 1863, the
"tube" has seen both triumphs and disasters
and some interesting characters have been involved..
|
- Thursday 29 March 8.00 pm at
Avenue House: A discussion. This is a new venture
for the Society. More details will be posted when available
|
 Other
events recommended by Finchley Society Members: Finchley
Festivals (Members with events to advertise please contact
web@finchleysociety.org.uk.)
View
or download our recent newsletters, Latest,January/February
issue includes:
- Karl Ruge obit
- public health crisis,
- Wild life,
- Avenue House update
Geological Importance of Avenue House Grounds
The Mayor of London has recently published for consultation Supplementary
Planning Guidance entitled "London's Foundations - protecting
the geodiversity of the capital". It is based on a geodiversity
audit of London commissioned in 2007. It looks at some 40 sites
across Greater London which may be of geological importance, based
on criteria including quality of exposure/feature, access, rarity,
community use and safety, and recommends 14 to be designated as
Regionally Important Geological/geomorphological Sites; none of
these is in the borough of Barnet. It also recommends 6 Locally
Important Geological/geomorphological Sites; our own Avenue House
is on this list. The description is " Park area with pebbly
clay exposures (Till) beneath trees and in temporary exposures.
One of the most southerly exposures of till deposited by the largest
of the Pleistocene glaciations, the Anglian, c.450,000 years.
Chalky till, together with outwash sands and gravels, silts and
clays. The till is characterised by its chalk and flint content."
The area is identified as one with good potential for information
for the local community. More detail and a picture are to be found
at www.london.gov.uk/consultation/londons-foundations-spg
. Details of the Avenue House site can be found on pages 91 and
92 of the Londons Foundations PDF available from that page. Peter
Pickering
2012 Meetings
The Society is continuing to hold its outreach meetings this
year. These are meetings held in different parts of Finchley
and have an accent on local matters. To view the Society's 2012
programme of meetings please click the link below.
About
meetings, and programme for 2012 |
