A potential feature within www.leedsediblecampus.co.uk Tom Bliss (TB) - tom@urbal.tv - 20 06 14 with thanks to Dr Andy Millard for comments and additions. Version 2 including feedback incl Parks & Countryside.
BACKGROUND RESEARCH (Woodhouse Moor only)
String o' Beads (SoB) is rhyming slang for Leeds (working title only) and a concept for a chain of 'pocket' forest gardens and orchards, with interspersed wild flower / pollinator and food planting, across the Leeds Edible Campus site, linking the community permaculture garden at Bedford Fields in the north with the University of Leeds Sustainable Garden in the south, to provide a foraging route deep into the city.
For origin, rationale and list of partners see www.leedsediblecampus.co.uk http://www.scribd.com/doc/228580673/String-o-Beads
This is primarily an academic project for Leeds Met students, but it does have potential for live implementation. This will only be considered if all stakeholder parties are content and funding secured. Detailed survey, engagement and design work by Leeds Met, Parks and Permaculture UK/Edible Cities would then ensure that any planting was appropriate, attractive and ecologically sound, with long-term maintenance and support systems in place. It is not intended substantially to alter the character, aesthetic or functions of the Moor. Initially, intervention would be minimal - usually in unused corners - with additions phased in, as and when agreed, over a period of years.
This document quotes work by the following students. Some duplication is included for interest (There may be minor errors here and there) Lee Greenwood, Nicholas Hirst, Alicia Hunston (Planning MA 2013): LEC Project (Tutor: Dr Lindsay Smales) www.scribd.com/doc/150404655/Nick-Lee-Alicia-Woodhouse-Moor-Ideas Charlotte Dean (Landscape MA 2013): Ornamental Edible Public Planting (Tutor: TB) www.scribd.com/doc/146271691/C-Dean-Ideas-for-Woodhouse-Moor Jill Broekel (Landscape MA 2013): Edible Strategems (Tutor: TB) www.scribd.com/doc/209348424/Jill-Broeckel-Bowling-Greens Jullyana De Melo Menezes, Gabriela Otremba (Supervisor: Tom TB) Science Without Borders Internship 2014
Left: For illustration only. Final locations of 'beads' would be decided by analytical process - see website for progress Right: Allotments covered most of Woodhouse Moor during in WWII (Aerofilms - early 1950s, via John Preston) 2 BACKGROUND
Charlotte Dean www.scribd.com/doc/146271691/C-Dean-Ideas-for-Woodhouse-Moor 3
References to follow 4
BugLife B-Line Project
From 'Making a B-Line through Leeds' (Leanna Dixon, BugLife) www.buglife.org.uk/
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B-Line Leeds Site 10: Woodhouse Moor
Site description:
This site is located within a formal park setting. The 2 outlined sites have previously been managed as wildflower meadows but in recent years have been dominated by grass species. [This is not the case in the eastern area - see below]
Grid reference: SE289350 Size: 0.9ha.
Proposed management:
Scarify the sites with spring tine harrow (or similar) to make bare ground and sow appropriate wildflower mix in autumn (to include yellow rattle as core component). Roll after seeding. Cut and remove grass in first year when sward reaches c. 10 cm in height, then leave to develop into meadow for the remainder of the year Cut and remove vegetation in early August once yellow rattle has seeded. [This advice is questioned below]
Public engagement:
Woodhouse Moor is very close to Leeds University therefore it could be used for educational purposes (habitat management and identification modules as well as volunteer societies). The park is also a main commuter route for university staff and students so the meadows will be highly visible and have the potential to be high profile.
Leeds B-Lines Project Site Monitoring: The flora and pollinator species will be assessed before and after improvement works using standardised transects and quadrats. This will allow the success of the project to be assessed by analysing how species diversity, richness and abundance have changed. Fixed point photographs will also be taken to allow for future monitoring of larger-scale changes. Protocols from the Bumblebee Conservation Trusts BeeWalk and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme will be used to survey bumblebees and butterflies to allow for easy replication by volunteers in the future.
6 LEEDS EDIBLE CAMPUS
Lee Greenwood, Nicholas Hirst, Alicia Hunston (Planning MA 2013): LEC Project (Tutor: Dr Lindsay Smales) www.scribd.com/doc/150404655/Nick-Lee-Alicia-Woodhouse-Moor-Ideas
Charlotte Dean (Landscape MA 2013): Ornamental Edible Public Planting (Tutor: TB) www.scribd.com/doc/146271691/C-Dean-Ideas-for-Woodhouse-Moor 7 HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Charlotte Dean 8 SITE ANALYSIS
Charlotte Dean Charlotte Dean 9
Lee Greenwood, Nicholas Hirst, Alicia Hunston (Planning MA 2013): LEC Project (Tutor: Dr Lindsay Smales) www.scribd.com/doc/150404655/Nick-Lee-Alicia-Woodhouse-Moor-Ideas
Jill Broekel (Landscape MA 2013): Edible Strategems (Tutor: TB) www.scribd.com/doc/209348424/Jill-Broeckel-Bowling-Greens 10 New Generation Transport Scheme http://www.ngtmetro.com
A level of uncertainty exists re the future of the Moor due to current plans for the installation of a trolleybus scheme, called New Generation Transport (NGT), through the site. The proposal is currently at the public inquiry stage. If it goes ahead, there will be significant changes to Woodhouse Lane and other roads, with some loss of green space and trees. One a more positive note, the scheme could present opportunities for off-set mitigation investment, from which the LEC could benefit if a suitable case can be made.
The Library Pub The Bird Cage Cinder Moor Monument Moor Monument Moor 11 SURVEY AND ASSESSMENT
Scoping Meeting (11 06 14)
This took the form of an exploratory walk, followed by a round table meeting with interested parties. Organisations represented included Grow Wild / Kew gardens, BugLife, Hyde Park Source, Feed Leeds, Edible Cities, Leeds Met Landscape Department, University of Leeds Sustainability Team and Researchers, Little Woodhouse Community Assn, Friends of Woodhouse Moor / South Headlingley Community Assn, Bedford Fields Community Forest Garden, and the artist Benedict Phillips. (Another dozen or more similar organisations sent apologies).
18 sites were identified as targets worthy of further exploration (excluding the UoL campus, which is being developed separately in association with the UoL Sustainability Team and Bardon Grange).
Target Site Survey (16 06 14)
The survey was conducted by Leeds Met ecologist Dr Andy Millard, UoL Professor of Agroecology Leslie Firbank, UoL Biodiversity MA student Ben Lawson (a permaculture and foraging specialist), one local expert from The Friends of Woodhouse Moor, two Landscape Architecture interns and the author.
NB. Since the release of version one of this document, the Friends of Woodhouse Moor aka The South Headingley Community Association have expressed strong opposition to any pollinator or edible planting on the Moor, on the grounds that this could compromise any future 'Heritage Status' application. We are awaiting advice from English Heritage on the validity of this concern, but currently our understanding is that none of the below would compromise potential inclusion in the 'Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England' - though existing features of the park may do so. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/registered-parks-and-gardens/
Conservation Status
Woodhouse Moor lies inside the Headingley Hill Conservation Area - detailed in the Leeds City Council Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, which also includes much useful and relevant information: http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/headingley%20hill,%20hyde%20park%20and%20woodhouse%20moor.pdf
Topography
Woodhouse Moor sits at the top of a hill, which falls away to the north east and south west, slopes down to the city through the Leeds University Campus to the south east, and dips slightly to the north before joining the Headingley ridge. Prevailing wind is from the south west, but the park is well sheltered by trees.
(image from Headingley Hill Appraisal and Management Plan)
Geology and soil
(image from Headingley Hill Appraisal and Management Plan)
The geology of the Moor (centre of map above) is sandstone (yellow) and millstone grit (green), underlain predominantly by Lower Coal Measure shales, with a coal seam (Better Bed Coal) running along Hyde 12 Park Road to Hyde Park Corner. The soil is the typical Leeds heavy clay. No samples were tested, but the park's use as allotments during WWII suggests reasonable soil health. Samples should be tested for acidity, nutrient levels, soil food web health and, ideally, contamination before final designs are produced.
Ecological Typology
There is no specific ecological typology for urban parks. Woodhouse Moor, being largely mown grass and mature trees with no understory, is an area of relatively low biodiversity. Although an entomological survey has not been undertaken, the park is assumed to support the typical community of common insects for this habitat type. Species identified during the survey are noted under the relevant target area sections.
The grass areas support a typical population (restricted by regular mowing) of common insects, and the trees (which are mainly typical species such as ash, sycamore, oak etc.) host the usual common insects and birds such as Blue Tit, Treecreeper, Blackcap, Blackbird, Robin, Carrion Crow & Dunnock. Winter visitors like Redwings and Waxwings can be seen on the Moor. There are small pockets of shrub planting which will provide some nesting habitat, which routine trimming and other maintenance is likely to affect adversely. The only areas of relatively high biodiversity are the two allotment plots (which, being a combination of cultivated and 'derelict' land, with multiple layers of wild, edible and ornamental planting might be called de facto forest gardens), and the sown wildflower meadow surveyed below.
String o' Beads Target Sites
For an interactive and regularly updated version of this map, visit the Map page at www.leedsediblecampus.co.uk
NB: Only targets within the Moor (3 - 15) were surveyed. 'Satellite' sites are being developed separately.
Tennis Skate Park Playground Allotments Tennis - key pedestrian routes -- ---------- LEC phase one Route of NGT ------- 13 3 Derelict Playground (Between Woodhouse Cliff and Woodhouse Street). Map ID 6726
This has been closed since about 2006/7. Good cover of typical colonising plants, including tree seedlings. Suspected partial coverage of 'Playtop'-style impact-absorbing playground safety surfacing beneath a good leaf litter build up - creating about 1 inch of protosoil. The area is very shaded.
NB: A new road as part of the NGT alterations (see above) may obliterate this site. According to the plans, this road runs south from Woodhouse Cliff, with a traffic island creating a one-way system. The note 'Playground to be relocated' appears on the plan.
If NGT does not proceed, need to ascertain what plans Parks have for this. Being fenced it might make an interesting combined play / and food / sensory / pollinator patch.
Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Suggestion Prioity Fenced area Some regeneration Close to housing Close to Bedford (Could be managed by)
Limited soil depth Shade Uncertain future
Radical concept of 'edible playgrounds'
Possible demolition due to NGT and/or Parks plans
Await developments
Low
4 'The Bird Cage' Map ID 6727
Grass and trees surrounded by low fence (largely shaded, but with two large sunny patches), plus sunny area outside the fencing to the north, between the buildings, Cliff Rd and Woodhouse Street. Land reputedly owned by Post Office (tbc).
This area gets good passing footfall, and should not be greatly affected if NGT goes ahead. However the southern end of Cliff Road may acquire more traffic under the re-routing arrangements, so it could become more of a traffic island.
Two desire lines from the gap in the fence by the bus stop to gaps in the fence to east and north. Friends of Woodhouse Moor have suggested closing two of these to prevent through traffic.
A good daffodil display is reported, and may need to be protected.
Could some allotment style beds be introduced, perhaps adopted by local shops and cafs?
Semi fenced area High visibility for scrumping access Close to services Risk of vandalism Resistance from conservation lobby More then 50% shade Traffic contamination
Small pocket FGs
Small 'Allotments' for local shops and cafs
Lack of permission/s?
Await developments
Low
5 Edible Bus Stop Map ID 6728
Originally the NGT plan was for a stop where the buses currently stop, with buses instead pulling into new stops to the west (right of picture), creating a larger hard surfaced 'bus station' area. Latest plan (see above) suggests this stop has been moved north to beyond traffic lights, but an opportunity may still exist.
If so, and NGT goes ahead, can a case for mitigation off-set be made?
Not so much potential for a forest garden, but could become an 'edible bus stop' (proposed some time ago by LMU students). with container-based growing. Would local cafes, shops and restaurants maintain and harvest? Ref: www.theediblebusstop.org/
Submissions for any proposals here would need to be made soon (Public Inquiry now not expected to finish before October). Potential for big PR wins for NGT, LCC etc.
Very high visibility Very good access High risk of vandalism Traffic contamination Very high maintenance Funding/support from NGT High impact, topical installation PR wins
Lack of permission
Approach NGT and/or First
Low
6 Cinder Moor Bank Map ID 6735
Cinder Moor is mostly open, hard surfaced and unused (by humans, though open ground is attractive for ground-feeding birds) - except for short spells when a circus or funfair, or overflow car parking, is installed. (Would NGT reduce the need for this?)
What appears to be an informal green-waste tip (by Parks?) is already composting to soil. This could be converted into a forest garden in situ with relative ease. Partial shade, bank faces north-east, but should get sun. 15
Vandalism risk Distance from services (low level traffic contamination?)
Medium FG in area not much used
Construction phase of NGT?
Guerilla project (with Parks blessing)
Low
7 Contamination Research Area Map ID 6736
Feeds Leeds, in association with academics at UoL and LMU, have proposed a contamination research project based in the grass strip between Woodhouse Lane and the footpath on Monument Moor, to the north east.
After base line tests for existing soil and air pollution (there is an existing monitoring station opposite The Library pub) a range of woody, herbaceous and root edible crops would be grown in the grass strip between Woodhouse Lane and the footpath along Monument Moor, for as long a period as possible before NGT construction begins. The produce would be harvested and tested for traffic-based contamination. These tests would then be repeated after the installation of NGT, and questions asked, such as; 'would there be any reduction in contamination because traffic had transferred to NGT', or 'would there be no reduction because the removal of congestion had encouraged additional car journeys', or 'would traffic queuing (while the trolleybus had priority passage) actually cause an increase in contamination'? Other related traffic research might also be possible. (This project is mentioned in LMU student Rachel Forbes Temporary Farm proposal for the Monument Moor - see LEC Ideas page or www.scribd.com/doc/209346373/Rachel-Forbes-Temporary-Farm)
If NGT does not go ahead, such research would still deliver valuable data.
Different criteria to rest of project. Research wins, funding wins PR wins
Requires research project set-up
Risk of Vandalism
Innovative research project with good PR and educational benefits
Minimal
Pursue with Parks and Universities
HIGH
8 Shrubbery Garden Map ID: 6738
Parks planted currents and gooseberries in this raised bed as part of LEC installation (they also planted new fruit trees near the tennis court, and - in 2013 - edible plants in the raised beds opposite the Library pub).
Conventional forest garden technique is to begin with clean bare earth, but this area is suitable for forest garden-style retrofit using inter-planting, which would deliver no major change to aesthetic or functionality once established.
Limited space unless existing non- edibles removed
Parks could enhance using own resources
Minimal
Suggest Parks enhance
Low
9 Library Bed and Bus Stop Map ID: 6782
The bed nearest to The Library pub has recently been thinned, and, like site 8, is suitable for forest garden retrofit with no major change to aesthetic or functionality once established.
This could deliver high visibility fruit and herbs for passing students.
There is also scope an edible bus stop, like site 5, here. Ref: www.theediblebusstop.org/
Originally the site of a drinking fountain, this is a shaded area with a very high footfall but limited appeal do to unimaginative planting. The black-painted log retaining walls and seating have seen better days.
Most of the circle beds are planted with conventional (and clipped) shrubs, but one segment, to the north, is down to grass. This has the most sun and could be planted as a site-limited wildlife meadow or, better, a showcase forest garden, with some additional inter-planting among the existing shrubs to add value.
Good visibility and access Existing planting to enhance
Risk of Vandalism
Shade
Showcase retrofit Forest Garden and / or meadow
Lack of permissions
Produce sketch designs and pursue engagement
Low
11 Buffer Strip Map ID: 6742
This area, planted with cotoneaster etc and apple trees, and backed by a line of mature cherries, is one of two zones outlined as potential B-Line plots (see above).
The BugLife proposals are very compatible with forest gardens design, but any planting here would need not to encroach on the flat area to the north used as a football pitch.
The strip was originally planted to protect the allotments from footballs (the cherry trees were used as goal posts and balls often went over the hedge). It was the site of previous wildflower planting (involving by not by Urban Pollinators) which has not survived, and Parks are currently strimming between the woody plants, causing bark damage.
A comprehensive orchard / FG / meadow design could remove the need for strimming and improve both biodiversity and foraging yields.
Strenths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Suggestion Prioity Past use and earmarking Proximity to allotments Existing fruit trees
Shaded
Proximity to football pitch
Can resolve maintenance problems with linear FG / orchard / meadow
Resistance from conservation lobby
Produce sketch designs and pursue engagement
HIGH
12 Leeds Met (and other) Allotment/s Map ID: 6743
There are two large allotment sites on the Moor, both surrounded by high Privet hedges, which create 18 sheltered semi-secure areas within. The Leeds Met Student Union 'Lets Grow' projects has recently acquired a plot in the northern area which is already being developed as a forest garden (allotments are anyway de facto forest gardens by default), as are other plots in the enclosure, some of which are managed by members of the Leeds Permaculture Network.
The LEC/SoB team have identified a need for tool and materials (mainly wood chip) storage in a reasonably central location on the Moor, and this is the most convenient fenced area. One suggestion is to use the Lets Grow allotment shed (LMU are making a separate bid for Green Exchange funding), or to upgrade to a shipping container (Parks report that shipping containers are usually permitted on allotments). Tools would thus be protected by both allotment gates and padlocked doors, but this would require that workers carried two keys.
Access here would be less suitable for wood-chip collection, however. It might be possible to use another plot near the western gate, but the padlock there would be a problem for tree surgeons making drop-offs. (Could another site could be made available on the Moor - e.g. near Gardeners Cottage or within the bowling green enclosure).
The existing Crown greens slope slightly down to the sides of 35m squares of close-cropped grass. Intense maintenance means that only short lawn species survive.
Two greens are being decommissioned, and Parks are open to suggestions for what to do with them, with a stipulation that any designs should retain the quiet contemplative feel of the existing enclosure.
Two designs by LMU MA student JIll Broeckel for Healing and Productive gardens (rather than Forest Gardens) on the bowling greens can be found on the LEC Ideas page.
"Converting bowling green lawns into edible gardens will require some adjustment to the soil and structure of bowling green lawns. As afore mentioned, bowling greens are treated with chemical fertilizers. To ensure that edible plants grown on these sites do not contain harmful residual chemicals, the existing soil ought to be either removed and replaced with soil appropriate for vegetable growing or remediated by growing cover crops - such as peas - which can soak up harmful chemicals and trace metals. The former may be more expensive, whereas the latter may take more time. Other alternative solutions might be proposed, but regardless of which action taken, before an edible garden can be grown the site soils must be tested and prepared for growing vegetables and fruit.
Soil depth is another factor which must be addressed in altering bowling green sites to be suitable for growing edible plants. Bowling green thatch (organic matter just below turf surface) is kept at a depth of only about 25-50 mm. In order for vegetables to have healthy or effective root depth, the thatch depth would need to be increased. 19 According to author Cathel Hutchinson (n.d.), who writes an article on the effective root depth of vegetables."
When vegetable plants are seeded into the ground, they develop roots. Roots act not only to anchor a vegetable plant to the earth, but also take up water and nutrients from the soil, which are essential to the vegetable plants growth. The roots of different vegetable plants penetrate to different depths, and it is important to know the effective root depth when planting your crop.
Hutchinson specifies that there are general categories of rooting depths that edible plants can be grouped in:
1. Shallow rooting = 45 - 91 cm (18 - 36 in). Examples are broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, garlic, leeks, lettuce, onions, potatoes, radishes and spinach. 2. Medium rooting = 91 - 122 cm (36-48 in) Examples are beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, peas, squash and turnips. 3. Deep rooting = > 122 cm (> 48in) Examples are artichokes, asparagus, parsnips, pumpkins, winter squash, sweet potatoes and tomatoes."
Jill Broekel (Landscape MA 2013): Edible Strategems (Tutor: TB) www.scribd.com/doc/209348424/Jill-Broeckel-Bowling-Greens
The fact that this area is open but surrounded by, effectively, a 'wall' of mature trees and shrubs, means that there is a lot of scope for creating the equivalent of a woodland edge ecotone (the environment that forest gardens seek to mimic). The more naturalistic appearance of this might not be appropriate for the whole perimeter but would help enhance biodiversity e.g. of pollinators.
The scale of this space allows scope for a number of 'show gardens' of different sizes, nested as appropriate, with different areas featuring different design philosophies. One area might be showcase optimum productivity, another might explore the aesthetic compromises required to deliver both 'wild' and 'formal' planting in the same scheme, a third could explore the physic, spiritual or wellbeing aspects of productive cultivation. There is also room for more conventional orchard or wildflower areas.
There is a shipping container by the lower greens, currently being used to store Unity Day equipment, which belongs to SHCA, and thus probably not available to this project. Could access be made in the south-east corner (where a tarmac spur heads up from the road) for a wood-chip drop-off?
Showcase forest gardens with themes - productive, healing, spiritual etc
Other plans?
Produce sketch designs and pursue engagement
HIGH
14 Dew Pond Map ID: 6745
This is a small area prone to flooding (reportedly due to damage to drains from lorries access the moor with fuel for the November 5th bonfire). There may be some water-loving plants among the sward, but this could not be confirmed. The pond dries out in fine weather, but becomes extensive in wet.
Could this be turned to advantage somehow? (LMU student Phil Mason has produced some interesting work on Edible Wetlands to be found on LEC Ideas page or www.scribd.com/doc/228578850/C-Leather-Edible-Wetland)
High visibility / access High risk of vandalism Dries out - would need to be deepened and/or have water supply
Low key experimental wetland
Resolution of drainage problem
Experiment?
Low
15 Wildflower Meadow Map ID 6746
This is a discrete raised area, with a shallow central valley (not seen from outside), surrounded by trees, including a few apple and cherry to the north east. Identified by Parks as a potential target site for SoB, and listed in the B-Line proposals above, this is a large area already well-populated with wild-flowers, including vetches of various kinds such as e.g. Bush Vetch and Meadow Vetchling, Clover, Cowslips, Hay rattle / Yellow Rattle, Common Knapweed (Centauria), Meadowsweet, various Thistles, Oxeye Daisy, 21 Spanish Bluebell (non-native intruder), Hymalayan Balsam (non-native intruder), Red Campion, Salad Burnet, Creeping Cinquefoil and Eyebright. (Fauna recorded on the day were Bombus hypnorum, Bombus lucorum, Bombus hortorum, Bombus pascuorum, Long Tailed Tit, Robin, and Gold Finch - and a foxes earth is reported within the reservoir enclosure to the south).
22 Judging by the presence of species which are very unlikely to have arrived here naturally, we assume that this area was seeded and/or planted as a wildflower meadow some time after the reservoir, which originally occupied this site, was replaced with the covered structure to the south, reputedly in the early 90s. Further information is required from Parks, for example what seed mix was used if so, and whether it conformed to any particular National Vegetation Classification community.
The B-line proposals are to "Scarify with spring tine harrow (or similar) to make bare ground and sow appropriate wildflower mix in autumn (to include Yellow Rattle as core component)." However, given than Yellow Rattle is already present, and that this treatment may impact negatively on the other existing species this proposal should be questioned. The growth of grasses seems quite vigorous but without knowing how it has changed over the past few years it's difficult to say whether the Rattle is keeping the grass in check or whether, if left as it is now, the grass might eventually crowd out a lot of the forbs.
Some tree planting has already taken place within the meadow. Some species, especially the oaks, will eventually shade out and diminish the wild flowers, so may need to be reconsidered.
There is a case for saying that the separate, almost secret, character of this area should be maintained, and there is a strong case for maintaining the existing species mix.
Any edible planting here would probably need to be minimal, though there may be scope for orchard species, and it has been suggested that this could be to the east where the existing trees (mainly ash) are thin. However, as these are self-seeded on the top of the Victorian retaining wall and bund, this may not prove to be wise due to the risk of further root damage.
Replace broadleaves with fruit trees where viable. ?Pocket FGs in corners
Low
NEXT STEPS
The next step will be to continue engagement with key stakeholders, to obtain opinions on the suggestions and priorities above. Once a consensus and any necessary permissions are reached, sketch designs will be produced and costed, so that funding bids can be made and developmental plans put into place.
REFERENCES For references relating to student work please see full documents on the links below.
Broekel, B (Landscape MA 2013): Edible Strategems (Tutor: TB) http://www.scribd.com/doc/209348424/Jill-Broeckel-Bowling-Greens
Dean, C (Landscape MA 2013): Ornamental Edible Public Planting (Tutor: TB) http://www.scribd.com/doc/146271691/C-Dean- Ideas-for-Woodhouse-Moor
De Melo Menezes J, Otremba G Science Without Borders Internship 2014 (Supervisor: Tom TB), unpublished.
Dixon, L 'Making a B-Line through Leeds' (BugLife) accessed 07 07 14 http://www.buglife.org.uk/
Greenwood L, Hirst N, Hunston A (Planning MA 2013) LEC Project (Tutor: Dr Lindsay Smales) http://www.scribd.com/doc/150404655/Nick-Lee-Alicia-Woodhouse-Moor-Ideas
Leeds City Council Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan; Headingley Hill: http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/headingley%20hill,%20hyde%20park%20and%20woodhouse%20moor.pdf