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August 5, 2021

Diseased tree upcycled into wildlife habitat tree stump and bird boxes

Unfortunately a diseased Ash tree behind the IAIS Building on Streatham Campus has had to be removed, but our Arb Team were keen to use […]

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July 15, 2021

More Wow Wildflowers!

The wildflower areas at St Luke’s Campus are looking fantastic.

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July 15, 2021

Wow Wildflowers!

The wildflowers at the Reed Hall beds are in flower and looking glorious. Last year we trialled having wildflowers instead of the customary formal planting […]

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April 22, 2020

Winter Bird Survey Highlights

The results of the winter bird survey carried out by an independent consultant on our campuses have been received and we wanted to share the […]

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March 23, 2020

New Environmental Foamstream System

The University’s Grounds Team have purchased a new piece of equipment with the environment in mind. The water based foamstream system deals with moss, algae […]

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September 24, 2019

Pumpkins!

Wow what beauties……………… We are very proud of these pumpkins we have grown on campus as a green initiative trial to help with weed control […]

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July 25, 2019

Celebrating Green Flag Award 2019/20!

The Grounds Team have proudly celebrated the successful re-achievement of  the prestigious Green Flag Award for 2019/20 for our beautiful Streatham Campus and St Luke’s Campus. […]

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July 8, 2019

Bees’ Needs Week 8th-14th July 2019

Bees and other pollinators are vital to growing lots of our favourite foods and for plants to flourish in our fields and gardens. It is […]

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July 2, 2019

Wildflowers Trial – Reed Hall Beds

We are trialling a crop of summer flowering wildflowers at Reed Hall beds this year. We have had to change the planting scheme and rest […]

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April 2, 2019

More birds on campus

This year’s campus winter bird survey saw a rise on the Streatham Campus of resident bird numbers with 32 species records. We were pleased to […]

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