COOKHAM SOCIETY 2016 DESIGN AWARD
The Cookham Society’s annual Design Award has been given to Cookham Dean Primary School garden. The garden was a community project designed by Hannah Wilson and Catherine Downes who both sit on the PTA.
The Award Certificate was presented to Ms Wilson at the Society’s AGM on 10 March by the Society’s President, John Bowley.
The garden, which opened in June 2014, includes a sensory bed, wildlife border and herb garden. In its assessment for the Award, the Society noted that the garden is designed to enable all age groups of pupils to participate with appropriate plantings. It has common areas as well as nature zones to encourage specific types of wild life - it even has a "meat-eating well" which is sunk into the ground, to demonstrate the work of carnivorous plants. The whole garden has been created as a school project with considerable input from parents and others. It represents many of the elements central to the Cookham Village Design Statement: it has been sensitively and imaginatively designed; it involves the community at many levels; it enhances an area which would otherwise have been neglected; and it provides an aesthetically pleasing facility for the education of children to encourage them to beconsiderate of the environment
POUNDFIELD
In February this year, the Borough Council unanimously endorsed a proposal, supported by a petition with over 1,600 signatories organized by the Society, to get Poundfield designated as a Local Green Space in the forthcoming Local Plan. The Cookham Society have also lent their support to the "Save Poundfield" campaign. Alongside the Society they are seeking to secure LGS status and are opposing housing development on this long-standing green heart to Cookham.
