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Volunteers needed to help green the Elephant

The Green Lanes project in north Southwark aims to create physical links between existing and new green and open spaces to provide a comprehensive network of alternative pedestrian and cycle corridors which would also allow residents and visitors to move about, sit, socialise and exercise or play safely in pleasant, landscaped surroundings away from the noise and fumes of traffic. As well as being places you want to spend time in, Green Lanes link up all the places you want to go to: shops, the doctor's surgery, the community centre, schools, bus stops, the rail or tube stations, the riverside, tourist attractions, day nurseries and places of worship.

For more information, see the Green lanes website at www.London-SE1.co.uk/greenlanes

The Chaucer Environmental Forum instigated the project with funding from the SRB Round 4 Chaucer Regeneration Partnership. We have been successful in ensuring that an extension of the Green Lanes has been included in the Elephant and Castle regeneration scheme. We now need volunteers to help us complete a survey and master plan for the area to be included in the guidance advice to the E&C developers in January.

We need people to do the following:

Face to face surveys

Survey Data analysis

Land use surveys (walking about the area and plotting various aspects on maps)

The area we need to cover stretches from the Elephant northwards to the river. You would be able to work in your own time.

For more information, please contact Sam Teague at the Rockingham Estate Play Association on 020 7403 8337