You may have noticed some work being carried out along the Fallowfield Loop, just west of Wellington Road bridge.
Manchester City Council’s Flood team has issued an urgent notice to Sustrans to clear Fallowfield Brook. This requires removal of undergrowth along the banks for about 100m, dredging the stream to clear soil that has gradually washed into the watercourse and pulling this up onto each embankment using a digger. Some trees growing out of the bank and impeding flow will also have to be felled.
Three of the small orchard trees will need to be relocated a short distance, but this will happen when they are dormant.
The Friends of the Fallowfield Loop met with Sustrans today and discussed plans for future planting in the area after the works are complete. We will update you with details as soon as we have more information. Information about the work is also on Sustrans North West’s Facebook page.
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Sustrans carries out urgent flood works along brook
Posted in Fallowfield on September 26, 2017|
New hedgerow by Sherwood Street entrance
Posted in Conservation, Fallowfield on February 8, 2015| 2 Comments »
Today the Friends were out, together with members of the Sale and Altrincham Conservation Volunteers, to plant a new hedgerow on the edge of the Loop, adjacent to the Sherwood Street entrance and on the corner with Wellington Road. The planted hedgerow contains a mix of native plants, predominantly hawthorn but also wild cherry, field maple, dog rose, hazel and blackthorn.
Work for community orchard, Fallowfield
Posted in Community orchards, Fallowfield, Volunteering on February 17, 2013|
Today members of the Friends, together with the Sale and Altrincham Conservation Volunteers, worked on the site of the new community orchard in Fallowfield, close to the Sherwood Street entrance to the Loop. The work continued from preparatory activities carried out in December: today the planting holes were dug and prepared with compost, and the planting of the orchard will take place in four weeks’ time, on Sunday 17th March. In addition to the orchard work, preparation for a new boundary hedge on the corner of Sherwood Street and Wellington Road was carried out. As the pictures show, it was a perfect sunny spring day to be out enhancing the Loop!
Friends of the Fallowfield Loop 