CMA Events & Training

Olympic Developments in the Lee Valley – Legacy or Lunacy?

Study Day on Wednesday 30th June 2010

The 2012 Olympics White Water Canoe Course (WWCC) is being built in the River Lee Country Park (RLCP) at Waltham Abbey; Essex. The Lee Valley Park Rangers and Conservation team were heavily involved in this development and there have been a number of issues that they have had to overcome including visitor management, biodiversity and planning. The day will start at the Cheshunt Youth Hostel in RLCP with a presentation and a look at the info. room for the WWCC. We will then walk down through RLCP to the site of the development (we won’t have access but can look over the site from a viewpoint). As a part of the planning conditions there are a number of environmental enhancement schemes that we can take a look at. After lunch we will visit Seventy Acres Lake and look at the reedbeds which were planted under a LIFE funded scheme to improve habitat in the hope of encouraging breeding Bitterns.

To book please contact CMA Administration: Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116

e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk