Play park
Greenwood Park
A Green Flag park with a hillfort to storm, woodland trails to wander and a café for the grown-ups. Green as its name, and rightly proud.
Find it on the map →Chiswell Green
St Albans, Hertfordshire
The council refused the Polo Fields plan, but the Secretary of State overruled it on appeal — approving 721 homes (391 south and 330 north of Chiswell Green Lane) on green belt.
Find it on the map: open in OpenStreetMap →
The threat
721 homes approved on appeal over the council's refusal — the green belt under the diggers.
Planning ref: 5/22/0927 & 5/21/3194 →iJoin the defence of Chiswell Green
One tap, no account, no email — the field keeps a ledger of its friends. Be the first to defend this field
“You can't protect a field you've never loved. Stand with this one — and bring someone to meet it.”
Make a day of it
The meadow doesn't end at the hedge. Around it stands a whole village that has stood with her for a thousand years — the church on the hill, the hall where they dance, the swings where they squeal. Go on, make a day of it. The field will still be here when you get back. She's very patient.
Community hall
Greenwood Park Community Centre
Three halls and a licensed bar — where Chiswell Green gathers for dances, parties and clubs.
Church
St Stephen's Church
The parish church — St Stephen's has minded Chiswell Green's spiritual needs for a very long time.
Find it on the map →“Look after each other out here. Come in twos and threes, bring a torch if you're about after dark, and keep an eye on the little ones and the slow ones. I'd watch over you myself, but I'm a scarecrow — my watching's mostly for the crows. So you be each other's guardians. That's the village way.”
How you can help
Say it should be saved
Objections and public support count at every step — the Local Plan consultation decides which green-belt sites get allocated.
Have your say →Keep in touch
Follow the field's progress and hear when Rusty will be along — or volunteer to lend a hand with the field team.
Get involved →Know another field?
There are plenty more in the shire. Send us a meadow you love and Rusty will give it a proper look.
Send a field →The shire is wide, and every field in it deserves a walk.