Send Activities..Environment
We are lucky in Send to live in rural envionment which most people who replied to the Parish Plan questionnaire think it is important to keep rural.
The River Wey provides opportunities for many activities including boating, walking and cycling along the towpath.
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Village Interactive Environment Map
The Interative Environment Map allows you to discover features of the local environment. With people wanting to get out and out more during the summer months, the map links to new "nature trails" for the village - a popular idea from the Parish Plan questionnaire.
Environmental News
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The Parish Plan group members are intending to organise village tidy up days on behalf of the Parish Council. If you are interested in taking part in these, please email lparkerpicken@yahoo.com to add you name to the list of volunteers. |
There is fishing in the Wey and also in the ponds where the old sandpits used ot be, and sailing on nearby Papercourt Lake. (See Clubs, Groups and Societies for details of Send Angling Society and Papercourt Sailing Club).
The most visible wildlife is probably the rabbits, followed by foxes which are often seen crossing the main roads in Send at night. Deer can also be seen from the towpath when walking towards Triggs Lock from the direction of the New Inn. There is plentiful bird life including the occasional kingfisher near the Cartbridge, woodpeckers and grebes on the ponds. Parakeets are now naturalised in this area. You can hear their parrot like screeching then spot their bright green plummage!
West Surrey Natural History Society meets monthly in Ripley Village Hall at 8.00 pm on the fourth Thursday of the month. Contact Ron Croucher on 01483 223630 for the programme of indoor and field meetings covering all aspects of wildlife and the natural world.
Surrey Wildlife Trust, with headquarters in Pirbright near Woking, is a registered charity and the only organisation concerned solely wiht the conservation of all forms of wildlife in Surrey. They are responsible for over 600 sites in Surrey, covering 4000 hectares of the county's countryside. These sites include Papercourt Meadows and Papercourt Marshes (part of the Papercourt Site of Special Scientific Interest) just outside Send. SWT offers an extensive programme of walks, talks and events, open to the members and non-members alike. They have in the past included bat watchng along the towpath near Triggs Lock. For more information visit their website at www.surreywildlifetrust.org.
Heath Field - the area off Sanger Drive with it's boardwalk around the pond needs regular work to keep it looking good. For details on how to get involved email Florence.ams@virgin.net. The next working parties are listed in the diary.
Send Gardening Society holds bi-monthly meetings in the Church Rooms. Contact Howard Stringer on 01483 222969 for details.
Allotments are available in Send for a modest fee. Please contact Jill Spiral, clerk@sendparishcouncil.gov.uk for details.
Planning applications are available for viewing at Guildford Online Planning Applications. Here you search for Send/Ripley or select Send Parish for local planning applications.
Recycling.
There is a collection box for shoes outside McColls in the parade of shops in Send, but no other recycling bins are located in the village itself. The nearest recycling facilities are at Sainsbury's in Burpham or at the local tip site in Woking.
Guildford Borough Council's recycling team can be contacted on 01483 445084, or visit www.guildford.gov.uk.
GBC collects materials for recycling from the kerbside each week. Please put your green and purple boxes out by 7am on your collection day. The green box is for glass jars and bottles, steel and aluminium cans and tins and aerosols. The purple box is for newspapers, magazines, directories, catalogues, junk mail, office and printed paper and card.
GBC also collects garden waste in special green bags (ordered from the council). These require an annual renewable fee. They also have subsidised composters, green cones or wormeries for sale.
For help or advice into any of the above schemes please call the Recycling Hotline on 01483 445084.
Send Parish Plan group hope Send will be added to the areas for kerbside plastic collection in the not too distant future. In the meantime, both plastic and old clothes and shoes can be taken to Sainsburys at Burpham or Tesco near the Cathedral in Guildford.
To find out more about becoming a Community Recycler, please email Jane.Alexander@guildford.gov.uk or call 01483 445085.