Trees in the City – A Spring Conference
Saturday 26th April 2014, 10am–3pm
LeSoCo (formerly
Lewisham College) – Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT
Breakspears Road Building, Breakspears Road entrance
Breakspears Road Building, Breakspears Road entrance
All welcome!
Come when you can, stay as long as you like!
TIMES
Doors open 9.30
Formal proceedings 10.00-3.00
Lunch break 12.00-12.50
Doors close 3.30
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Bus routes including 21, 136 and 436 stop outside (stop is Lewisham College)
St John's Station (London Bridge 9 mins) five minutes' walk
Lewisham Station (Charing Cross and Waterloo, London Bridge and DLR) ten minutes' walk
Brockley Station (London Bridge 8 mins & Overground) fifteen minutes' walk
REFRESHMENTS
St John's Station (London Bridge 9 mins) five minutes' walk
Lewisham Station (Charing Cross and Waterloo, London Bridge and DLR) ten minutes' walk
Brockley Station (London Bridge 8 mins & Overground) fifteen minutes' walk
REFRESHMENTS
Tea and coffee within the venue - FREE
Brockley Market gastronomic snacks available adjacent to venue - see website: www.brockleymarket.com
AGENDA
Morning – The Green City
Stands
and stalls open
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9.30am
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Welcome Clare Cowen Chair, Brockley Society and
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10.00am
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Sir Steve Bullock Mayor of Lewisham
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Who needs urban trees?
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10.10am
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Tom Armour Chartered landscape architect, founder and head
of Landscape Architecture Business,
Arup, London
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Trees are awesome – breathe
easier for trees
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10.40am
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Professor Barbara Maher Lancaster University Environment Centre (video conference)
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Break – five minutes
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11.00am
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Trees – managing our legacy
for the Future
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11.05am
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Panel session and Q+As with:
Keith Sacre Barcham Trees tree nurseries,
John Thompson, GreenScene Manager, Lewisham Council,
Nick Pond Ecological Regeneration Manager, Lewisham Council,
Phil Ashford Design & Conservation Manager, Lewisham Planning Service
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Brockley Street Trees – our Blog |
11.50am |
Brockley Society Tree Committee
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Break Your opportunity to visit conference exhibitors,
and enjoy food and drinks at the adjacent Brockley Market
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12 noon
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Afternoon – The Trees Around Us
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Afternoon welcome
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12.50pm
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Melanie Loveday Brockley Society, Cllr Darren Johnson
Brockley Ward and GLA member, Rachel Mooney Friends of Hilly
Fields
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The London Orchard Project
Lewis McNeill - The London Orchard Project |
1.10pm
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Greening your street
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1.30pm
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Brockley Society Tree Committee
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Trees – the practical issues
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1.45pm
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Panel session and Q+As with:
Angelo Morgan TreesUK tree surgeons, Eur. Ing. John S.Bellman of John Bellman and Associates Limited, Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers Richard Edwards Vice Chair, London Tree Officers Association |
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Designing the London garden
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2.30pm
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Andrew Wilson Principal of London Garden Design College and of Wilson
McWilliam garden design practice
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Closing
remarks
Anthony Russell, Brockley Society Tree Committee, founder The Chandos |
2.50pm
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Close Stands and stalls open until 3.30pm
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3.00pm
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Reserve your FREE place:
trees@brockleysociety.org.uk
or just turn up
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Stalls: Community
organisations: free, businesses:
£25 email:
trees@brockleysociety.org.uk
