Meadowlily Woods Environmentally Sensitive Area
Meadowlily Road South London, ON, Canada

Map from CBC London article about the development at 101 Meadowlily Road South. They share an immediate boundary! Not what we were told by staff at Planning Meeting last night at city hall. See image!

The Monarch Butterfly was observed in several open areas throughout the study area on several visits to Meadowlily Woods; this species is ranked as Special Concern by COSEWIC.

This photo of yellow lady slipper was sent to us by our good friend of Meadowlily Woods, Will Van Hemessen! Thanks Will!

Park Farm Heritage House, 1849: This photo of Maxwell David Fraser (known to most as David Fraser, a London lawyer) standing in front of his newly acquired "Park Farm", a home constructed in 1849 by William Bell, a Westminster Township farmer, who built this brick Ontario Regency-style cottage.

Keep Meadowlily in your thoughts as we go through these two months for deferral of the OZ-9192 application on a lot on our road! 89 condo units right across the street from Meadowlily Woods Environmentally Significant Area! Excellent presentations at Planning Committee. Please circulate and SIGN OUR PETITION below. Thanks! https://www.change.org/p/london-petition-against-large-resi

Photo of Meadowlily Creek looking south. Photo was taken just after a significant rain the day before. Photo credit: Don McCutcheon. Thanks, Don

Map 6 of the London Plan, Hazards and Natural Resources: shows a detail of the Meadowlily Area from Highbury Avenue in the West (left side of the map) to White's Bridge and Hamilton Road in the East (right wide of the map): the whole area, (shaded areas from left to right along the Thames River) is a Groundwater Recharge Zone and according to the London Plan and provincial environmental regulations ought to be a protected area with wetlands, forested highlands and rare and endangered species galore!

Rather biased and tilted version of our concerns about the development at 101 Meadowlily Road South by London Free Press today: https://lfpress.com//nature-loving-neighbours-saying-no-to

Large stand of mature white cedars on the site of a proposed development here, OZ_9192, which is in a tree protection zone. We are going to try and save them if we can. Please sign our petition against development in Meadowlily: https://www.change.org/p/london-petition-against-large-resi

From CTV London News today: https://london.ctvnews.ca/residents-to-defend-meadowlily-wo

Hi Meadowlily Folk, it is with great regret that we have to make this announcement: Within the past 24 hours it has come to our attention that in spite of some 50+ people having sent in letters and emails about the development proposal at 101 Meadowlily Road South that these communications WILL NOT BE part of the agenda for that public meeting like they have been in the past but are attached as a peripheral part of the staff report only. This has not been the case before in ...2008 or 2011. If you want to make sure that your opinion is heard and seen I would invite you to come to city hall, wear a mask and make an appearance at the meeting this coming Monday, October 5 at 4:00 pm or make arrangements to join the Zoom portion of that meeting about a half an hour before the meeting. I appreciate that you made the effort you did to be a part of this and I want your part of the process to be respected. There are a lot of changes going on at city hall. If you want to make sure you're heard make an in-person appearance or remote way of being a part of the public participation meeting. I will be there. See more

Creek at Park Farm Heritage Farmstead, just east of Meadowlily Road South and just west of the house at Park Farm!

Photo from the London Advertiser, 1910, of the old Meadowlily Bridge, c. 1885, shortly before the old bridge was torn down and the new (present) bridge was built.

Welcome to our Meadowlily Woods public Facebook page! Meadowlily Woods Facebook Fans, our FB page had 9 new likes this week, for a total of 1,740 fans! 2,204 Page visits this week! Thanks for liking our page and welcome to our Facebook experience! Feel free to invite your FB friends to like our page. Our message is protection and preservation for the Meadowlily Woods Environmentally Significant Area! So we are posting this welcome to our new members: Thank you for being a pa...rt of our Meadowlily Facebook Experience which is dedicated to the protection and preservation of the environmentally significant area known as Meadowlily Woods Environmentally Significant Area as well as the larger natural and cultural heritage features of the area. Many of us consider it to be the greatest challenge and greatest opportunity to respect and protect our natural and cultural resources. Our goal here is simple: to provide a lively forum where people can discuss issues related to the Meadowlily area as well as other topics related to protecting and preserving the natural and cultural features of the London, Middlesex and outlying regions of Ontario at large. Here we also post photos and documents that seek to give examples of how valuable and unique this area is as well as evidence for how there are definitive attempts to threaten this area with development that often comes too close to our natural area and violate its buffers, setbacks and rural landscape. The best comments and posts are those that add more information and perspective to the topic, express a different viewpoint or help create intelligent and well-informed discussion of the issues. Feel free to post our photos of Meadowlily Woods here as well as discussing your concerns about Meadowlily. We welcome you to our constructive discussion about Meadowlily matters, but we won't tolerate advertising or destructive comments. The latter will be hidden or removed. Please also take a moment and sign our petition to protect our area from large-scale residential subdivision development and thanks for your support of Meadowlily! https://www.change.org/p/london-petition-against-large-resi