Welcome to the Friends of Queen's Wood Website

 

 

 

 

WEATHER

 

• A place to walk the dogs, peace in a busy city and a great place to jog.
• With the changing seasons there is always something new to see, hear and enjoy.
• Queen's Wood is an area of ancient woodland in the London Borough of Haringey, which has been continuously wooded since at least AD 1600.
• Behind the Lodge building is an organic garden overlooked by wood and cafe users.
• The wood is principally inhabited by oak and Hornbeam. Many birds that have spotted in the wood including crows, magpies, jays, blackbirds, greater spotted woodpeckers, green woodpeckers, blue tits, great tits, robins, tree capers, nuthatches, mallards, song thrushes, wood pigeons, wrens, hawfinches, cuckoos, sparrow hawks, London pigeons and goldcrests.

 

Proposed flood management scheme

Haringey Council's engineers proposed major engineering works in the Queen's Wood, digging two metre wide channels along existing fragile stream beds and installing large wooden structures intended to slow water flow. These were intended to reduce the risk of flooding downstream from the wood but had no proven benefit to the wood and could spread pollution and invasive species.
The Friends submitted a full response to the Council's consultation on the scheme, making clear our opposition with our reasons. Meanwhile, on 12 July exceptionally heavy rains did lead to damage to the wood and to the flooding of nearby properties, but left serious questions about how far the proposed scheme would have helped. We have submitted a full report to the council on the events and the damage to the wood. The Council have agreed that there is a need to step back from the proposals and have initiated discussions with us in the hope of reaching a consensus. We hope the Council will listen to our representations and will keep members posted on developments by email.