Johnstown has a significant amount of housing and every house, open space, and street matters.
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Competition Guide Notes:
Residential streets that include Town Houses are integral parts of towns and villages and should be treated in a similar fashion to public and private housing developments. Consideration is given to proper presentation and maintenance of all properties with due cognisance given to maintenance of frontages, boundary and gable end walls. Gardens, where applicable, should be presented to a good standard. In housing developments green areas should be cut regularly. Children’s play areas to be considered with equipment maintained to best standards. Where possible individual estates should have suitable name signs - stones, plaques, sign posts, etc. preferably bilingual.
Support estates who are hosting summer meadows.
Encourage estates to participate in Pollinator Project:
Stop weed killer use, ✔️
Participate in verge edge cutting project, ✔️
Mulching around trees, ✔️
Host summer meadows / six-week cutting of certain areas, ✔️
Delayed Spring cut, ✔️
No Mow May initiative ✔️
Don't Mow Yet initiative✔️
Planting for pollinators. ✔️
Promote No Mow May ✔️
Engage a high visibility area to Pilot growing pockets of long grass ✔️
Identify estates using weed killer and promote the benefits of stopping. ✔️
Encourage estates to delay first cut of the year ✔️
Engage Pilot project to grow pockets of long grass ✔️
Establish amount of estate lawns and potential annual cutting costs ✔️
Assist the 5 estates on north Metges Road to create planting around their entrance marker stones: Bailis Downs, Johnstown Wood: Chestnut, Elm, Birch, and Maple.
Survey to identify bi lingual signage requirements ✔️
Promote presenting entry marker stones as planting display areas ✔️
Not all estates have formal residents groups, with some looking after their road, or even cluster of houses. We have endeavoured to reach out to them of formal/informal contact. ✔️
Promote joining and recording actions on the National Pollinator Plan ✔️
Engage a street to pilot a themed planting display ✔️
Promote joining Meath PPN and to engage with best practice and networking ✔️
Identify all formal groups and engage litter picks on a rotational basis. ✔️
Sunflower plants will be distributed in June 2022 for residents to grow in front gardens to enhance the Johnstown Sunflower Trail.
Promote Meath County Council sustainable gardening course✔️
Meath County Library Grow It Forward initiaitive✔️
Encourage GYI through information articles in Community Magazine ✔️
Encourage GYI through information articles in Community Magazine ✔️
Survey to establish usage and group discount purchase to be made.
Research and apply for funding for a portable 300ltr water tank that can be transported by car.
Survey to establish usage
Rainwater Buggy created for watering public planting.
Promote Sunflowers and our Trail 2022 ✔️
Encourage residents to pledge their gardens in the pollinators.ie National Biodiversity Survey. ✔️
Promote Pollinator Friendly plants ✔️
Promote Native Irish Wildflower Seeds ✔️
Wildflower Articles ✔️
Christmas Stall at St Stephens NS offering wildflower seeds ✔️
Gain sponsorship through businesses advertising their support on signage. ✔️
Utilise the website to promote our endeavours, aims, and call for volunteers.
Utilise high visibility projects to raise awareness of our group:
Sunflower Trail 2022
Biodiversity Sites: Summer Meadows, Tree Planting, Wildflowers, Bridge Baskets
Engage better via social media ✔️
Utilise street posters for highly visual projects. ✔️
Engage with Litter picks ✔️