Hanwell Nature

Previously @HanwellNature - our legal action saved #WarrenFarm in 2020. Calling for clarity, transparency & real local consultation #ProtectWarrenFarm

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

Never has one beautiful meadow been fought for for so long by so many people who cared so deeply about it.

Today we celebrate with everyone who has helped safeguard Warren Farm over many years — volunteers, supporters, naturalists, photographers, local experts and neighbours who never gave up on this special place.

This outcome reflects the efforts of many people and groups over many years, including:

• Save Warren Farm campaigners — including the late Carolyn Brown — whose vital earlier legal challenges helped hold the development at bay at a critical time.

• The thousands of Hanwell Nature supporters who contributed to the legal fund that enabled us to bring the successful legal action that prevented development of the site, demonstrating the depth of local commitment to protecting the meadow.

• The Warren Farm Nature Reserve campaign, which built on that momentum by organising a widely supported petition that conveyed the strong existing public concern to Ealing Council.

• Ealing Council, for the decisions taken over time that have led to the site’s designation as a Local Nature Reserve.

We welcomed the invitation to contribute to the draft Management Plan ahead of its submission to Natural England and will continue working with @EalingCouncil, the Ranger team and the wider community to help implement the Management Plan, encouraging wider participation from local groups and residents to join us all in supporting the long-term protection and care of the reserve.
The next chapter is caring for the meadow together. 🌿
#ProtectWarrenFarm #WarrenFarm

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

🌿 A visible new chapter at Warren Farm Meadows.

This week, the long-derelict buildings on site began coming down — a striking reminder that Warren Farm Meadows is continuing to evolve.

For many local people, these buildings have stood empty for years, becoming part of the landscape’s complicated history. Seeing them disappear feels significant.

As the demolition begins, we have continued advocating for appropriate ecological safeguards and wildlife surveys to help guide the process sensitively as the site moves into its next phase 🦇🐦🌾

But alongside those important considerations comes something else: possibility.

As space begins to open up physically, it also opens up imaginatively.

Our legal action save the land itself from environmental destruction, keeping it open to the public and for nature to thrive.
The wider campaign helped secure lasting protection.

Now the local community is beginning to step back in and think about the future of the land that was saved for them🌿

In conversations taking place across the community, there’s growing excitement about what this next chapter could become — but also a feeling that many people are still unsure how ideas, participation and future stewardship might come together, and how the Council will embrace their collective voices.

There’s a real opportunity now to create spaces where different voices, skills and community interests can begin contributing to the future of the reserve — through wildlife, education, wellbeing, volunteering, creativity and community stewardship.

Many voices are beginning to emerge again ��� and we are excited to support them, in creating Warren Farms Future together. The campaigns are over, now it's down to us to create its future together. Exciting times indeed!

🌿 Warren Farm Meadows Local Nature Reserve
📍 A protected landscape shaped by many voices

#WarrenFarm
#Hanwell
#W7
#LocalNatureReserve
#CommunityForNature
#UrbanWildlife
#Rewilding
#HanwellNature

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

🌼 🌿 A small moment that makes a big difference at Warren Farm

By enjoying a relaxed, loose-lead walk around the edges of Warren Farm, we can help protect skylark chicks nesting quietly on the ground — often just feet from the path. 🌾💚. .

If you ever see someone walking through the middle of the meadow, it can feel awkward to say something — no one wants to come across as telling others what to do.

But often, a friendly conversation is all it takes.

Something as simple as:
“Have you seen the skylarks yet?” 🐦
From there, it’s easy to share why this time of year matters — that they nest right on the ground, hidden in small clumps of grass, and can be easily disturbed without people realising 🌾

Most people genuinely care — they just don’t always know.

By keeping to the paths and enjoying the meadow from its edges, we can all help protect the quiet nesting heart of this special place 🌿

It’s not about calling people out — it’s about looking out for the wildlife, and for each other 💚

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home.

They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

🌅 A place worth caring for, together 🌿

Warren Farm reminds us that what we nurture today shapes the world that follows — for wildlife, for community, and for future generations.

Hanwell Nature 💚

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

As the sun rose at 06:02 this morning, a small group gathered quietly in the meadow to welcome the turning of the season. With skylarks already singing overhead and the grass silvered with dew, it was a moment of stillness, light, and birdsong 🌾🐦

Spending time outdoors at dawn can be deeply restorative — slowing down, listening to the sounds of wildlife, and feeling the warmth of the returning sun on the earth beneath our feet 🌿

On the Spring Equinox, when day and night stand in balance, nature reminds us of cycles of renewal, resilience, and growth.

Yesterday was also World Rewilding Day — a powerful reminder that when landscapes are given space to recover, life returns in remarkable ways ����

Warren Farm Local Nature Reserve is a place where both people and wildlife can breathe, reflect, and reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world 🌼

By enjoying the meadow gently — from paths and edges, and giving wildlife space during nesting season — we help protect the quiet heart of this special landscape 🐦

📍 Warren Farm Local Nature Reserve

#SpringEquinox #WorldRewildingDay #WarrenFarm #Hanwell #LocalNatureReserve #UrbanWildlife #W7

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

Change can be slow, especially when land, planning, legal processes and development pressures are involved. What mattered was how many people cared enough to stay engaged over 10 years of never giving up— and that collective effort helped secure protection for the meadow as a Local Nature Reserve.

It really does take a village to save a meadow — and now there’s a wonderful opportunity for everyone who loves this place to help it flourish 🌿

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

@GNO_ICHN @museudelter @cerm_uvic @UDivulga Volem fer el mateix pels nostres petits mussols que nien al nostre prat recentment salvat del desenvolupament urbanístic a l'oest de Londres. Algú sap si es poden comprar a Anglaterra?

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

From roof tiles to nest sites — building for wildlife matters.

As ideas for future community and sports facilities at Warren Farm Meadow LNR are discussed, there is a real opportunity to include features like swift bricks, bat roosts and nesting spaces for birds and bats.

Small design choices today can support wildlife for decades.

It takes a village to save a meadow — and many minds to enhance it.

📸 Image originally shared by @wildheart_500 designed by Instagram: @grupnaturasterna Grup de Naturalistes d'Osona and Grup de Natura Sterna in Catalonia have designed "Teula Mussolera," a modified clay roof tile to restore nesting sites for declining little owl populations. we are sure our little owls would love these

#WarrenFarmMeadowLNR #ProtectWarrenFarm #UrbanWildlife #littleowls

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

Some of the most important moments here are the quiet ones.

#UrbanNature
#WinterQuiet

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

🐦Skylarks have been spotted staying at Warren Farm through the winter.

This matters.

Skylarks breed where conditions are right, and when birds remain through winter it’s usually a sign the land is flourishing— providing open meadow, natural seed sources, and space.

Winter is a demanding time for wildlife, and what happens now shapes what’s possible in spring. Skylarks nest on the ground, relying on undisturbed grassland once breeding begins.

Routes walked across the middle of the meadow in winter can become established paths by spring — carving through favored nesting areas and reducing the cover and quiet space skylarks need when nests are fragile.

Winter can look quiet — but it isn’t empty.

Beneath the grass, seeds rest, roots strengthen, insects overwinter, and soil recovers.

What we don’t disturb now becomes the foundation for spring. Choosing established outer paths helps protect recovering habitat — and the wildlife that will depend on it when spring arrives.
#WinterNature
#UrbanNature
#NatureInWinter
#WarrenFarm

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

A very cold, icy morning around Warren Farm today.
Many paths are sheer ice, particularly near the lock and bridge crossings.
Please take extra care if you’re out walking — sturdy footwear and a slower pace are strongly advised.
The winter sky is beautiful, but conditions are harsh this morning.#WinterWeather #TakeCare #LocalGreenSpace

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

Crisp winter light over Warren Farm.

A place of recovering wildlife, calm, and connection — moments like this are a reminder of why this land matters so much to the whole community.
Some spaces are too precious not to care for together.
#Hanwell #UrbanNature #GreenSpace

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

@JamesMelville What does it say about a country when the people who feed it are left to break? Every stable society has understood this: care for farmers, or pay the price later.

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

🌿 Please plan garden works now – Warren Farm area

Birds in London are under real pressure, and gardens next to Warren Farm are crucial nesting places.

If your garden needs hedges, ivy or trees cutting back, or if you’re considering building or landscaping works, in the new year, December and January are the best time to clear gardens ahead of the vital spring nesting periods. Don't wait until they are building their nest, a little advance thought helps our precious urban chicks thrive.

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

What does it say about a country when the people who feed it are left to break?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is one of the most cold blooded and heartless things I’ve ever seen from a Prime Minister. Keir Starmer admits that he knows some farmers are considering suicide because of inheritance tax on family farms, but he then confirms that he will continue with the inheritance tax.

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

Fantastic news for such an valiant campaign protecting Swifts "The Swift Brick Campaign" well done See this Instagram post by @writerhannahbt https://t.co/AAg27Lvv1k

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

Did you know that squirrels are among the gentlest and most nurturing beings in the woodland? 📷
When one comes across a helpless orphan — shivering, hungry, and alone — she doesn’t ignore it.
She offers food.
She watches carefully, making sure the little one truly has no parents.
And after several days, once she knows it has no family…
She takes it in.
Nurses it.
Welcomes it into her nest as though it were her own child.
But her kindness doesn’t stop there. A mother squirrel greets her mate after his foraging trips not with distance, but with tenderness — grooming him, showing gratitude, almost whispering through touch: “I notice you. Thank you.”
And the male? He responds in his own way. He showers her with small gifts from the forest — the finest nuts, the brightest blossoms. For him, love is expressed in offerings, in giving.
Together, they are more than just parents or gatherers. They are quiet architects of the forest itself. Half of the seeds they hide will never be eaten — instead, they take root, sprouting into the trees of tomorrow.
Unwittingly, squirrels become reforesters, restoring the earth.
Imagine, for a moment… if we humans carried this same gentle wisdom of the wild into our own lives.

[Hanwell Nature @HanwellNature2]

We Just wanted to share some amazing unbelievable news HARRY the cat is finally home!! back to Green Lane, Hanwell with his much relieved owners, after living for a month in the Battersea area SW8, eating seabass, you quite literally couldn't write it. All is well that ends well, and a heartfelt example that we should never give up hope. The feeling is he jumped in a van? poor little thing, but home and happy now!!! a big thank you to everyone that searched for him, an amazing community response that needed this good news ⋇ ☀ ⋇☮ 🌟 ༺✿♡^^❥•`•❥ ♥♫ ✨ 🍀 ☀ 🌟 ❣