Crowlands Action Group
Formally 'The Crossrail Action Group'

 


What we stand to lose...

Westlands Playing Fields and Westland Rough are both areas of Green Belt land, which are very important to the local Communities of Romford and Chadwell Heath.
 
Westlands Playing Fields.

Situated off of London Road, Romford next to St. Edwards School.
Its continued existence as Green Belt land is important because it provides the only area locally where there are Football Pitches that both the School and Local Football Clubs can use.
 
Westlands Rough.

Situated and bordered by Bridport Avenue and Southern Way and extends to the Boundary of Westlands Playing Fields.
It is the last remaining field of the Thames Chase (Dagenham Corridor) that has been left untouched within the London Borough of Havering and, in the main, is in its natural state.
Losing this Green Belt site would deprive the local community of the chance to see many species of wildlife and fauna.
Although many of the species are not rare, they and the field are unique to this part of the London Borough of Havering. There are no other places like this locally.
The loss of this Green Belt and the local habitat cannot be replaced and this is why it is important that the local community fight Crossrail's proposals to destroy it.
We are currently compiling a listing of habitat, some of which is listed below. Looking through you will probably not been aware of some of the wildlife and fauna that exists locally and is unique to this field.
If you happen to see anything in or around the field that does not currently appear on our list, please Contact Us, including details of what you have seen, where and when. For those of you with digital cameras, a photo would be great.

Westlands Rough.

Map reference TQ 495 880
Area of 3.3 Hectares.
Green belt field of Neutral Grassland, scrub and trees located between Bridport Avenue and Southern Way, Romford.
 

Listing of Habitat.

*Denotes Specie Protected under 1981 Wildlife Act

Amphibians - 2 Species.

      
       
Common Frog Toad    
       
Beetles - 6 Species.      
       
Cream-Spot Ladybird Fourteen Spot Ladybird Seven Spot Ladybird Stag Beetle*
Twenty-four Spotted Ladybird. Two Spotted Ladybird    
       

Birds - 26 Species.

      
RSPB Conservation Importance      
Red List Highest Conservation Priority  Rapid or 50% Decline in UK in past 25 Years  
Amber List  Threat to Population. Moderate 25% to 49% Decline in UK in past 25 Years.  
Green List No identified threat to Population status.    
       
Blackbird

Blue Tit

 Bullfinch (Red)

Canada Goose

Corn Bunting (Red)

Common Whitethroat

Crow

Dunnock (a.k.a Hedge Sparrow) (Amber)

Garden Warbler

Great Tit

Housemartin (Amber)

House Sparrow (Red) 

Jay

Kestrel (Amber)

 Long-tailed Tit

Magpie

Mallard Duck

Pigeon

 Red Start Robin
Song Thrush Starling (Red) Swift Willow Warbler (Amber)
Wood Pigeon Wren    
       

Butterflies - 15 Species.

      
       

Cabbage White

 Comma Common Blue Essex Skipper
Gatekeeper Large White Meadow Brown Painted Lady
Peacock Red Admiral Small Copper Small Skipper
Small Tortoiseshell Speckled Wood Wall Brown  
       

Climbers - 2 Species.

      
       
Hop Ivy    
       
Dragonflies/Damselflies - 1 Specie.      
       
Common Blue Damselfly      
       
Flowers and Plants - 58 Species.      
       
Black Bindweed Black Nightshade Bluebell Bramble
Broad Leaved Dock Celandine Chickweed Common Cleavers
Common Toadflax Creeping Thistle  Daffodil Dandelion 
Dog Rose Field Bindweed Field Forgetmenot Foxglove
Goatsbeard Greater Plantain Green Alkanet Groundsel
Hedge Bindweed Hemlock Hogweed Horse Radish
Ladys Bedstraw Lesser Burdock Meadow Buttercup May Weed
Meadow Thistle Mouse- ear Hawkweed Musk Mallow Mustard
Narrow Leaved Stinging Nettle Pellitory of the Wall Pink Purslane Ragwort
Red Campion Red Clover Red Dead Nettle Rosebay
Rough Hawkbit Scarlet Pimpernel    Shepherds Purse Spear Thistle
Speedwell Stinging Nettle Tansy Vetch Bush
Vetch Meadow   White Campion White Clover White Dead Nettle
White Dead Thistle Wintercress Willowherb Woodruff
Wood Spurge Yarrow    
 

Trees - 19 Species

 

      
Apple Ash Blackthorn Crack Willow
Elder English Elm Evergreen Oak Field Maple
Greengage Grey Willow Hawthorn Holm Oak
Pendunculate Oak Plum Pussy Willow Silver Birch
Sallow Willow Sycamore Wild Cherry  
 

Grasses - 13 Species.

      
       
Common Cord Grass Common Moss Common Bent Grass Common Couch Grass
False Oat Grass Knotgrass Meadow Barley  Perennial Rye Grass
Purple Moore Grass Reed Grass Sweet Grass Sweet Vernal Grass
Timothy      
 

Hymenoptera - 1 Specie.

      
       
Black Ant      
       
Insects - 5 Species.      
       
Common Wasp German Wasp Green Shield Bug Hoverfly
White Tailed Bumble Bee      
       

Mammals - 5 Species.

      
       
Field Mouse Fox Hedgehog Grey Squirrel
Pipistrelle Bat*      
       
Moths - 7 Species.      
       
Angles Shades Moth Buff Ermine Moth Cinnabar Moth Elephant Hawk Moth
Goldtail Moth Herald Moth Lesser Yellow Underwing Moth  
       
Neuroptrea/Mecoptrea - 1 Specie.      
       
Lacewing      
       

Reptiles - 1 Specie.

      
       
Common Lizard*      
       
Snails and Slugs - 3 Species      
       
Black Slug Garden Snail White Lipped Banded Snail  
       
Useful Ecology Links      
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Friends of Dagnam Park    

 

 

 


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