Park Langley Residents' Association
To promote and protect the interests of the residents of Park Langley
Welcome to the website of the Park Langley Residents' Association.
The Association operates to promote and protect the interests of the resident's of Park Langley. Park Langley, situated in Beckenham, Kent, UK is a well defined geographical area bounded by three roads; Hayes Lane, Barnfield Wood Road and Wickham Way. A natural triangle is formed encompassing just over a thousand properties. Part of the triangle is located in a Conservation Area, the other in an Area of Special Residential Character. It is therefore worth preserving and enhancing the residential character of this area and the Residents' Association aims to do this.
This website should provide a means to keep us together as a community and so help to promote and protect our interests.
The Committee would like to occasionally share Park Langley information with the residents. To do this, we would need to build up an email database. If you would like to be part of this, then please send us your email address. This information will not be shared with anyone.
Our email contact is:
PARK LANGLEY CENTENARY: at our AGM earlier in the year, Doug Black gave a fascinating illustrated talk on the development of Park Langley. If you missed the AGM, you may be interested to learn that Doug will repeat his talk, for Bromley Local History Society on Tuesday 5th October, at 7.45pm, at the Methodist Church Hall, North St, Bromley.
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The Committee decided at our last meeting to send a donation of £50 to John Jackson's charity in commemoration of his life.
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We await the Council's decision on whether two 12.5m telephone masts need formal planning permission:
Romanhurst Gradens -
DC/10/02125/TELCOM
Outside 110 Wickham Way:
DC/10/02126/TELCOM
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Burglary is always a problem in the summer - windows open, garden gates open and so on. Please be vigilant and do not become a victim of crime.
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Wickham Way has been resurfaced. New white line system has been painted in an effort to reduce excessive speeds. We hope this has an effect.
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Brown paper food recycling bags for the grey kitchen caddies were provided to Park Langley residents at three monthly intervals. This no longer seems to happen. Now we have special plastic bags. Please visit the Library at Shortlands for a supply.
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"The oak processionary moth is a major defoliator of oak in Europe. The larvae (caterpillars) feed on the foliage of many species of oaks, including English, Sessile and Turkey oaks (Quercus robur, Q.petraea and Q.cerris). Hornbeam, hazel, beech, sweet chestnut and birch are also reported to be attacked, although mainly when growing next to severely defoliated oaks.
Oak processionary moth is a native species of central and southern Europe, where it is widely distributed, butits range has been expanding northwards, presumably in response to climate change. It is now firmlyestablished in northern France and the Netherlands, and has been reported from southern Sweden. Morerecently, colonies of larvae have been found in parts of London."
Our Tree Pits:
The Association has hired the services of Daniel Ede of Eden Landscapes (07981 989 919) to maintain our tree pits for this season. He has removed all weeds, covered the pits with dressing and planted over 400 red geraniums. These were planted in pits that had enough soil available - many were unsuitable - sorry.
We would ask all properties with geraniums to water them during the dry periods. This will give them the opportunity to thrive and enhance our streets.
Park Langley on the morning of 2nd February 2009
A resident of Park Langley has caught a moth in his garden which has been identified as a pest by the Forestry Commission. If anyone should see this moth, please let us know. It is quite important.
This is what is said about it: