Explore your Colne Valley Park – Summer 2024 edition is ready!

Explore your Colne Valley Park – Summer 2024 edition Welcome to our new Summer 2024 newsletter which includes A Call to Action: Our campaign to protect the existence of the…

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Green Belt: Why it matters

While the vast majority of people have heard of the Green Belt, few know much beyond the fact it rings London and our other largest cities. Here, we take a…

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Thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers

We’d like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers as well as all the other amazing volunteer groups helping to look after…

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Ducking and Diving in the Colne Valley

The wetland resource of the Colne Valley: a re-assessment of its importance to nature conservation, with special reference to waterbirds. A survey was commissioned in 2023 funded by the National…

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How can national planning policy be adapted to improve and restore the green belt?

Despite government routinely stating the Green Belt is valued, the evidence in the Colne Valley is that there has been a marked decline in landscape quality in recent years, with…

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Donate Now to Support our ‘Countryside in Crisis’ Campaign

Exciting news! Give to our charity appeal this week and Big Give’s Green Match Fund will DOUBLE your donation. Colne Valley Regional Park is participating in the Big Give Green…

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Trees planted at Iver Environment Centre thanks to Bosch

Iver Environment Centre and Colne Valley Regional Park were delighted to host visitors from Bosch UK last month to carry out tree surveys and maintenance on some of our new…

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Gladwins Wood

The Colne Valley Regional Park is horrified at the destruction of Gladwins Wood in Denham and is incredulous that this has reached appeal. This should be viewed as an unambiguous…

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The Colne Valley Regional Park – what we need is Joined Up Thinking

JERRY UNSWORTH is an independent planning consultant advising the Colne Valley Regional Park on a wide range of matters, including mitigation for Heathrow expansion and HS2. He has spent almost…

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Green Skills Team Work In Deerwood Park in Slough in Partnership with SEGRO

In partnership with SEGRO, Groundwork South has recently completed another Green Skills Team Project in Slough. The Green Skills Team Project is a six-week programme in which unemployed individuals from the Slough…

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