tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37597681506175524182024-03-12T22:54:40.357-07:00Lea Valley FederationThe Lea Valley Federation is a coalition of community and environmental groups and individuals concerned to protect the character of the Lee Valley Regional Park.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203703614158804017noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759768150617552418.post-14496180851567647252017-01-14T08:58:00.001-08:002017-01-14T08:58:36.253-08:00Schools in Lea Bridge Road put on hold<span style="font-size: large;">The plan to build schools on the redundant Thames Water site in Lea Bridge Road has been put on hold. The Academies were so impatient they did not wait for a planning application to be submitted before they advertised places at a non existent school. Waltham Forest Council and the Mayor want to protect the Metropolitan Open Land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/controversial-schools-plan-put-on-hold/">Schools on hold</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203703614158804017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759768150617552418.post-80145925215523964392017-01-14T08:47:00.002-08:002017-01-14T08:53:33.632-08:00Sign the petition against housing on Leyton Marsh<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-council-s-plan-to-build-on-leyton-marshes">Sign the Petition to save Leyton Marsh</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://walthamforest-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/leabridge/leyton"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Consultation on Eastside</span></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203703614158804017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759768150617552418.post-90912184140687353962017-01-14T08:44:00.000-08:002017-01-14T08:44:21.207-08:00Campaign against the selling off of the Waterworks Centre for housing<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I am writing to ask you to reject the Land and Property Strategy that
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Over 3000 people have already signed a petition (<a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-council-s-plan-to-build-on-leyton-marshes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-council-s-plan-to-build-on-leyton-marshes</span></a>)
calling on the London Borough of Waltham Forest to scrap its plans to rezone
a large swathe of green open space around The WaterWorks Centre - part of
Leyton marshes - for housing, and I am asking you to play your part in ensuring
our green open spaces are protected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> This land is Metropolitan Open Land, which means it should be
protected from all inappropriate development, just like Green Belt land.
Housing is not, and never will be, appropriate for Metropolitan Open Land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This land is also part of the flood plain for the River Lea and as such
needs to remain as open space so that the “once in 100 years” flood can be
catered for and more importantly not risk the lives of people whose homes would
be in the front line of any flood. I have seen the flood relief channel nearly
overflow so the odds are on a flood while global warming continues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The founding rationale of the Lee Valley Regional Park was to protect
the Park as a green lung for London, and all Authority Members have a duty to
uphold this. At no point during the consultations about a new ice rink was
anyone told that it would be funded by selling off land presently held for
recreational use. To do so would subvert the clear intention of the Act of
Parliament with which the Park was founded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Under the Lee Valley Regional Park Act, the Park Authority was
given financial independence by virtue of the power to draw a precept from the
GLC (now London boroughs) and Essex and Hertfordshire, the power to borrow and
the power to make charges. In addition, it can receive contributions to
its capital facilities from third party bodies. Up until now, the
Park Authority has lived within its means, limiting its plans to what it
can afford from the resources available to it. To depart from this funding
model, by selling off recreational land for development, goes against the
principles upon which the Park was established. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If the Park Authority concludes that it cannot afford to build a new ice
centre without resorting to selling off recreational land for development, then
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fact that The Waterworks Centre is underused is justification enough
for closing it. It is underused only because those managing it have let it
steadily run into the ground over the last few years, and have resisted
all suggestions from local people about how it can be made a vibrant community
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Please protect the future of the Lee Valley Regional Park,
and reject the Land and Property Strategy that will be presented to you on
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203703614158804017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759768150617552418.post-75332515718837734852016-07-18T00:34:00.001-07:002016-07-18T00:34:40.888-07:00SLM Digest 11-7-16<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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You may have seen earlier in the week that Cllr Rathbone sent round the proposals for a free school on the Clancy Docwra site. There are many concerns about this, summed up in the email objection circulated from Campaign to Protect Rural England. Whilst it is a brownfield site, it is protected Metropolitan Open Land. Local groups will be convening to discuss the issue and the NUT has also been contacted.</div>
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A real highlight of the week was the visit of a rare rose finch to Walthamstow Marshes, a story covered in Loving Dalston here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://lovingdalston.co.uk/2016/07/wee-east-european-migrant-draws-watchers-to-a-tree-in-walthamstow-marshes/&source=gmail&ust=1468913587890000&usg=AFQjCNF8Yg_CRNN6lE5ejQf0arFWfp-w7A" href="http://lovingdalston.co.uk/2016/07/wee-east-european-migrant-draws-watchers-to-a-tree-in-walthamstow-marshes/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A solo East European migrant draws watchers to a willow tree in Walthamstow Marshes</a></div>
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This week SLM reps visited the AGM of Lee Valley Regional Park. We spoke against the recently installed car wash which contravenes MOL guidance, the Park Act and the London Plan as well as adding to pollution and undermining the purpose of the Mini Holland improvements. Images of the car wash were handed out to the LVRPA members at the meeting. We'll keep you posted on any response.</div>
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We also spoke at the AGM regarding the minutes from the last Authority meeting where it was agreed that the new ice centre would not encroach beyond the 'red line' outlined on the map of Leyton Marshes and would not extend north onto Leyton Marsh.</div>
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From the Ground Up explores the magnetic pull of Walthamstow and Leyton Marshes. Made in collaboration with three local groups, Made in collaboration with three local groups, older people and women and daughters, both based at The Mill, and a group of teenagers from Llamas school</div>
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Through creative workshops and walking conversations, Siobhan O’Neill has carved out a space for inhabitants to reflect on their diverse lived experiences of the Marshes. From intimate stories to political provocations, these narratives unearth a strong bond to common land, simmering anxiety over urban development and an intense need to connect with the natural environment.</div>
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Live performance, reminiscence, image, poetry and landscape combine to create a quirky and poignant evocation of this urban wildness.</div>
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This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes. We are an open group of local people dedicated to keeping the green spaces and marshes of the Lea Valley area for the betterment of wildlife and for the health of people now and in the future. To find out more about our ongoing campaigns please see our website<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1468913338705000&usg=AFQjCNG9tSqTaUVWbRnFYZpYGQqEXPSRug" href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a><br /><br />We offer our condolences for the friends and family of MP Jo Cox who was horrifically murdered on Thursday, and can only repeat what her friends are saying she was all about: “Hope not hate”. Let’s hope there are lessons learned.<br /><br />With SLM our week has been dominated by the decision to go ahead with the building of the twin pad ice rink on Leyton Marsh – albeit with assurances that building will be focused towards the road, be visually and environmentally acceptable and not infringe more of the marsh. We’ll be reporting back in more detail.<br /><br /><strong>SUDS LAW –</strong> the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority or more properly the Trust arm “Vibrant Partnerships” - seem to think that putting an independent car washing business on the Ice Centre site is a funding initiative that will assuage the member boroughs who have to watch their area budgets and limit their contribution to the upkeep and future of the Lee Valley Park. This is like throwing pennies into a Wishing Well and not in keeping with the guardianship of the area that the LVRPA was set up to do. The “delightful” blue canopy structure is now in place see below:<br /><br /><img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiTiz6bByXZ0aURJRRgoabxdBKfqr-SnLEVN3kwlZoFfkP4WHp47ipPCUPKEVQLFdbBewkzIczuSgV4oIRq5VavenAkfGjF4eb4Zq-yOgU-tyKQiBI51S_tIne1UoitAaYsOFRID1sJLe3C6HnslXR1xnUKkCYlU2gPazoIAEXKnG10fw7knpkmUsBXXZUnXeHowVwOhl369ySQy9g61ckyUiVjphWbpQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 300px; outline: none; width: 400px;" tabindex="0" width="400" /><br /><br /><strong>DAM IT!</strong> Whilst SLM are trying to fend of ice and soap suds (and worse) on the marshes, across the other side of the world the indigenous people – the Mundururu are fighting off the Brazilian Government’s plan to build a huge energy dam through their Amazon territory. Sign the Greenpeace petition: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.greenpeace.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1468913338705000&usg=AFQjCNFNtRkYBzjZBb8pKdTmoe-oCquiRw" href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.greenpeace.org.<wbr></wbr>uk</a><br /><br /><strong>PANNING IT FOR GOOD</strong> - PAN UK member Nick Mole last night spoke at an excellent and well attended first public meeting about the campaign to make Hackney one of the 'Pesticide Free' areas across the world. For more info about next steps, keep posted on the 'Pesticide Free Hackney' page.<br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – The <em>Hackney Gazette</em> letters page, p. 8 has a letter protesting about the plans of Hackney Council to build a school for six years on land in Haggerston Park <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/letters&source=gmail&ust=1468913338705000&usg=AFQjCNEPTvKCXLWEVgS_Ydy1F4PJanVPdQ" href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/letters" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>letters</a> <br /><br />The June issue of the <em><strong>Hackney Citizen</strong></em> (Issue 80) has on p.7 an article on “Lea Valley Ice Centre could put ‘vital green lung at risk”, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1468913338705000&usg=AFQjCNGV-JPPJkTm-LzNvWCktdhB3yocNA" href="http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/news</a> and in the books section on p.16 a review of Historian Travis Elborough’s book “A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times o a People’s Institution”, published by Jonathan Cape (with a photograph of some well-known local people). <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/books&source=gmail&ust=1468913338705000&usg=AFQjCNFjpi_rnazDkwWq5ufRjjeW4GK_tA" href="http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/books" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/</a> - and well just look at the whole publication on line or grab a copy from a library.<br /><br />Nationally in <em><strong>The Sunday Times</strong></em>, 12.6.16, p. 14 “Stargazers see red as night sky lightens”, on the “Night Blight” CPRE report on we’re just using too much light in our infrastructure, e.g. Football Stadiums such as Wembley and giant greenhouses being major light polluters. <br /><br /><em><strong>The Guardian</strong></em> Tuesday 14.6.16 has two stories on p.13 “Child mental illness is linked to air pollution – more psychiatric disorders where air quality is worse, Swedish research finds even low levels have an effect and “Plea to help hedgehogs as sightings fall”, gardeners can help reverse the decline by avoiding pesticides and slug pellets, providing water and access through their gardens.<br /><br /><strong>IN THE FRACKING CORNER</strong> – whilst we hear of one woman’s situation of being ordered by a court to be the nominated person (or “Judgement Debtor), to pay an eviction fee (after people had actually left) of £55,342.37 after a three week Anti-fracking protest in Flyde, Lancashire, where Cuadrilla plan to drill – see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://tinalouiseuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/enough.html&source=gmail&ust=1468913338705000&usg=AFQjCNGUBLW0FsbneBxwOMDcbABJCI4Dzw" href="https://tinalouiseuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/enough.html" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">her blog</a>.<br /><br />Contrast this with the story in <em><strong>The Guardian</strong></em> yesterday, p. 17 Concern raised at firm called Ineos plan to dump fracking water in the sea, which also mentions that Cuadrilla withdrew an application for a permit to frack in Lancashire after the Environment Agency (EA) tightened the rules for disposal after 2m gallons of wastewater had already been discharged into the Manchester ship canal.<br /><br /><strong>EVENTS </strong><br /><br /><strong>Saturday 18 June – Mabley Green is running its Saturday Gardening Club from 11.00</strong>, all welcome and tells us that <strong>Eco Active </strong>will be running another club on the<strong>first and third Tuesday of the month between 1.00-3.00 p.m. a</strong>nd that there will be a special meeting for <strong>Mabley Green supporters on Tuesday 21 June at the Star & Jackdaw in Homerton Road E.9. at 8.00 p.m.</strong> to discuss future plans and elect some few representatives to the committee.<br /><br /><strong>Monday 20 June, </strong>SLM are organising a<strong> Midsummer’s Night Walk and a visit to a local pub to remember Katy Andrews. Katy is still very much with us in spirit and in our thinking.</strong><br />The Canal’s & River Trust (CaRT) are organising a volunteer day on <strong>27 June</strong> to carry out some monitoring work aimed at saving the European Eel in the River Lea. There are posters up – more details in June <strong>Hackney Citizen, </strong>p10.<br /><br />And finally.. is this the shape of things to come, going over from Hackney on the Lea Bridge the cycle lane is on the right then entering Waltham Forest’s Mini Holland, it switches to the left – how are pedestrians supposed to deal with this?<br /> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I am writing on behalf of REAch2 Academy Trust and the Lion Academy Trust about our proposals for a new primary school and a new secondary school on a single site in Waltham Forest.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">As you may be aware, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) completed the purchase of the Thames Water Depot at 150A Lea Bridge Road in April 2016 after an open sale process.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">The EFA is now working with REAch2 Academy Trust and the Lion Academy Trust to develop proposals so that a new two-form entry primary school and eight-form entry secondary school can open in temporary facilities on the site from September 2017, with permanent purpose-built school buildings being completed in 2018 and 2019, subject to planning permission.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both Trusts already run local schools that are rated by Ofsted as Outstanding and we are confident the new schools will deliver the same high standards of education in an area that needs additional school places.<u></u><u></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The Depot site itself would be transformed from concrete and hard-standing into new </span><span lang="EN-US">school buildings with playgrounds, sports facilities and new green space, which could also be used by the wider community out of school hours.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">We are now starting</span><span lang="EN-US"> public consultation on the principle of the two schools opening on the site, which will feed into our emerging designs for the two schools. There will be further consultation later this Summer before we submit a planning application to the London Borough of Waltham Forest in autumn 2016<span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As part of this first stage of consultation we would be delighted to welcome you to one of our public exhibitions to view our proposals </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and speak with members of the project team. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The exhibition will take place on:<span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">When</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Tuesday 19 July, 4pm-8pm</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">In the meantime should you wish to meet with the team, or would like any further information, </span><span lang="EN-US">please do not hesitate to contact Helena Carrie on <a href="mailto:hec@londoncommunications.co.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">hec@londoncommunications.co.uk</a> or 0207 612 8480.</span></span><br />
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<br />This week we are not sending you our regular digest - and for a good reason - we need you to take action to protect the marshes!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Leyton Marsh</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">As you will be aware from previous correspondence, Leyton Marsh has been selected as the preferred site for a new double-pad ice centre. The main criterion on which this preference is based is the ability to expand it!<br /><br />Please prevent oversized development and expansion onto green space of Leyton Marsh by doing the following:<br /><br />1) <strong>Compose</strong> a new email. Cut and paste these email addresses into the recipient box: </span><br /><br /><a href="mailto:paul.osborn@harrow.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">paul.osborn@harrow.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:derrick.ashley@hertfordshire.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">derrick.ashley@hertfordshire.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:david.andrews@hertfordshire.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">david.andrews@hertfordshire.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:kathy.bee@croydon.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">kathy.bee@croydon.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:john.bevan@haringey.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">john.bevan@haringey.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:Stephen.Carr@bromley.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Stephen.Carr@bromley.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:malcolm.cowan@hertfordshire.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">malcolm.cowan@hertfordshire.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:gwyneth.deakins@redbridge.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">gwyneth.deakins@redbridge.gov.<wbr></wbr>uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:cllr.christine.hamilton@enfield.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr.christine.hamilton@<wbr></wbr>enfield.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:linda.haysey@eastherts.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">linda.haysey@eastherts.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:cllr.r.houston@barnet.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr.r.houston@barnet.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:heather.johnson@camden.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">heather.johnson@camden.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:Cllr.Denise.Jones@towerhamlets.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Cllr.Denise.Jones@<wbr></wbr>towerhamlets.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:christopher.kennedy@hackney.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">christopher.kennedy@hackney.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:cllr.john.knapman@essex.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr.john.knapman@essex.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:cllr.gerry.lyons@walthamforest.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr.gerry.lyons@<wbr></wbr>walthamforest.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:graham.mcandrew@eastherts.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">graham.mcandrew@eastherts.gov.<wbr></wbr>uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:smcdermott@wandsworth.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">smcdermott@wandsworth.gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:cllr.valerie.metcalfe@essex.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr.valerie.metcalfe@essex.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:salim70@hotmail.co.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">salim70@hotmail.co.uk</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://yahoo.com&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNF_KPUR5HxN7vG1AbyA-PUxlR5cBw" href="http://yahoo.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">marysartin@yahoo.com</a><br /><a href="mailto:alan.searing@hertfordshire.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">alan.searing@hertfordshire.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://lewisham.gov.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNGfIGjHovOqMXT2OMGkPVIUXmK9Zg" href="http://lewisham.gov.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr_alan.smith@lewisham.gov.<wbr></wbr>uk</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://hotmail.co.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNFcsXqNt6-XhLM00Fh-8MzEuFt-tQ" href="http://hotmail.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">sydstavrou@hotmail.co.uk</a><br /><a href="mailto:cllr.simon.walsh@essex.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">cllr.simon.walsh@essex.gov.uk</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://ntlworld.com&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNEeEnbOTbika93fVO5JdGW_BHKlfw" href="http://ntlworld.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">lyn.white@ntlworld.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">2) <strong>Read</strong> the following letter we wrote on our <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/open-letter-to-the-lvrpa-re-future-plans-for-leyton-marsh/&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNFMrqzySIYDmbnV69O1YrORRt-XAg" href="https://saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/open-letter-to-the-lvrpa-re-future-plans-for-leyton-marsh/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">blog</a><br /><br />3) <strong>Choose</strong> from the points below to write your own email to the LVRPA members asking that they reconsider Leyton Marsh as the site for the new ice centre and requesting that they withdraw the decision from their upcoming meeting so that a proper consultation can be carried out with the public.</span><br /><br />Please select as many of the points as matter to you, adding your own:<div style="padding: 0px;">
– <strong>Views</strong> of the marsh will be seriously obstructed from Lea Bridge Road and the integrity of our valued Lea Valley marshes as a green lung for East London will be compromised.</div>
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–<strong> Noise</strong> pollution will be an issue for local residents, particularly at Essex Wharf, and especially during the night where they already have to put up with an incessant hum which I remember well from the days of the community protection camp on the marsh. Light pollution will also increase and inevitably affect wildlife.</div>
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– <strong>Ground</strong> <strong>contamination must be considered </strong>since the site is contaminated by heavy metals, asbestos and alkaline soils, as well as known UXOs. Assurances that this will be dealt with ‘appropriately’ just do not wash, considering that spoil from the previous development had to be removed as toxic waste, and not before marsh users had been exposed to contaminants.</div>
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– <strong>Expandability</strong>: one of the most concerning aspects of the chosen site is that it is preferred due to its potential for expansion. Our community love this marsh and do not wish to see it built on. The stables have already seen 12 expansions on to previously open public land on Leyton Marshes. This is a worrying precedent.</div>
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– <strong>Car parking</strong>: the current car park is rarely full, a bigger car park will lead to yet more felling of trees and reduction of green space and yet a bigger venue will no doubt have one. An increase in car parking will increase traffic, congestion and air pollution on the Lea Bridge Road. The Mini Holland scheme, which has just led to the destruction of mature trees on the marsh, was meant to reduce reliance on cars.</div>
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– ‘<strong>Development, Development, Development</strong>‘ Leyton Marsh acts as a buffer for the SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) on Walthamstow Marsh. Walthamstow Marsh is rapidly getting enclosed and cut off. I understand that there are plans for a housing development on Argall Road on the other side of the railway line, there is Riverside Close on the other side of the river and now there is the threat of development on Leyton Marsh.</div>
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– <strong>Low Spec: </strong>One of the reasons Eton Manor was not selected as the prime venue is due to the higher building spec that would be required, suggesting the building on Lea Bridge Road will be visually poor, not unlike the current building.</div>
<br /><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Hackney Marshes</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Please send the following email to Hackney Council to object their plan to remove the condition for a reduction in car parking spaces, promised at the PINS inquiry:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Online:</span><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackney.gov.uk/planning&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNE7bykLbzi7qlx35fvaneg0wyBSBA" href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/planning" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackney.gov.uk/planning</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">By email:</span><br />To: <a href="mailto:planning@hackney.gov.uk" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">p</a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://hackney.gov.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNFgunjNFGhHXp5l-mNZ6BQemUVGmA" href="http://hackney.gov.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">lanning@hackney.gov.uk</a><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;">CC: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://Hackney.gov.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700786000&usg=AFQjCNHJZ7f_PiOYNHHtKeJ-534kQDtUuw" href="http://hackney.gov.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Gareth.Barnett@Hackney.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a></span><br /><a href="mailto:mick.beanse@hackney.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">mick.beanse@hackney.gov.uk</a><br /><br />To Whom It May Concern,<br /><br />I would like to make the following objection to application 2016/1018.<br /><br />Hackney proposes to abandon the already permitted proposal to reduce car parking at North Marsh as stated in its application to the Planning Inspectorate. I object to this alteration for the following reasons:<br /><br /><strong>1. Hackney had already decided the levels of parking needed for non-electrical vehicles at North Marsh.</strong> Hackney had already decided what was an appropriate level of parking at North Marsh which included a programme of gradual reduction over a period of years. There is no reason to change that level of parking provision as the circumstances at North Marsh have not changed. If the original proposal was deemed appropriate and there has been no change in circumstances it is hard to see why the level of parking already argued for by Hackney should now be changed. Hackney insisted this level of parking met the needs of those using the facilities and defended this level of parking in the face of objections. But now not only does it disown its earlier opinion but it wishes to raise the level of parking from what it would have been once the agreed reductions had been completed.<br /><br /><strong>2. The decision is inconsistent with the decision reached by the Planning Inspector.</strong> The Planning Inspector's decision was based on the planing proposal put forward by Hackney. This included a reduction in the number of spaces for ordinary vehicles. The alteration in parking for electrical vehicles required by the Inspector has no bearing on the parking provision for other vehicles. The Inspector did not make any suggestion there should be an alteration in parking provision for other vehicles when she ruled against providing charging points for electrical vehicles.<br /><br /><strong>3. Opportunity for environmental improvement.</strong> The alteration in parking provision for electrical vehicles has given Hackney the opportunity to further enhance the site and reduce its environmental impact by returning more ground to nature. Hackney declared that limiting the environmental impact was one of its objectives when presenting its proposals for the North Marsh facilities. Yet, instead of taking advantage of this opportunity, Hackney has instead decided to increase the parking provision over time from the levels it would otherwise have allowed. This runs counter to its objectives of creating an environmentally sustainable facility.<br /><br /><strong>4. Contrary to policy on encouraging non-car usage.</strong> Furthermore by allowing for extra parking at North Marsh Hackney is contradicting its declared policy of seeking wherever possible to reduce car usage and to encourage alternative means of transport by restricting car parking. This proposal breaches that policy.<br /><br /><strong>5. Proposal will increase air pollution in this neighbourhood at a time when children are present.</strong> This will increase air pollution in this neighbourhood from the level it would otherwise have fallen to if this parking had continued to be reduced in line with the already agreed proposal. In particular this will affect children, who are particularly vulnerable to pollution, who use this facility for sports.<br /><br /><strong>6. Alterations to car parking at East Marsh are irrelevant. </strong>Hackney has included reference to East Marsh in this application. The alterations at East Marsh have no bearing on car parking at North Marsh. Each car park is a separate entity and is designed to meet the needs of each location. Hackney argued in defence of its proposal for a car park at North Marsh that this was needed as people would not or could not walk from the Hackney Marsh Centre to use the facilities at North Marsh. In other words, the other car parks were not able to meet the needs of those using North Marsh. The loss of East Marsh car parking therefore has no effect on the car parking available at East Marsh. It is entirely irrelevant to those needs. As stated above Hackney has already decided what level of car parking is required at North Marsh, including the proposed reduction. The loss of car parking at East Marsh does not affect those calculations so there is no need to refer to this loss.<br /><br /><strong>7. Alterations to elctrical car parking is also irrelevant.</strong> Likewise the loss of electrical car parking makes no difference to the provision of non-electrical car parking. The provision of non-electrical car parking was decided on its own basis and Hackney had stated that this was sufficient under the original proposal, a proposal argued both before the Planning Committee and before the Planning Inspector.<br /><br />Hackney should uphold its original proposal for all the above reasons.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Thank you for your help in assuring that whatever sports facilities are built, as much green public space is preserved for future generations and wildlife as possible.</span><br /> <div style="padding: 0px;">
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This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes. We are an open group of people living in the Lea Valle<span style="color: green;">!</span>y Area concerned to keep the marshes and green spaces in good condition for wildlife and local people now and in the future and to ward off any unnecessary, money-grabbing developments that could be a material and visual threat to this important natural landscape. To find out more about our work see our website<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNHVk_J2BkXP0Fb2IFPHdvvw3FOgZA" href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a> (our old blog is also still running)<br /><br />Sometimes when we’ve been out talking to local people and campaigning, people say that they love the marshes but ask, “What threats are you talking about?" They seem unaware of the unfortunate fact we cannot take for granted that these beautiful spaces are here forever. Instead what we see is before us are the marshes being gradually nibbled away and devalued. Well, if anyone needs a 'wake-up call', this week’s digest should stir you into action.<br /><br /><strong>THREAT 1</strong> – the proposed Ice Centre redevelopment, which the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority would prefer to build on Leyton Marsh on the ice of very thin arguments. You can see our latest blogposts on this topic,<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNG1VXDROCCrMSTRoGZ-pfz8G4i_7g" href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"> here</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/leyton-marsh-is-their-no-1-choice-but-do-the-numbers-add-up/&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNFOHRyE7Qu2O3GSAR91EBz_5ZdfVw" href="https://saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/leyton-marsh-is-their-no-1-choice-but-do-the-numbers-add-up/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><strong>THREAT 2</strong> – we’ve news that <strong>97 Leabridge Road is going to be discussed at Waltham Forest Planning Committee at 7.00 p.m. on the 7<sup>th</sup> June</strong>. This involves demolition of buildings on the old industrial site and the proposed building of a mixed development space of 300 residencies comprising 81 x 1 beds; 178 x 2 beds, 28 x 3 beds; 1 x 4 beds and 12 studios stacked between 5-18 storey blocks plus retail, car and other amenity space. (If this goes through we might have to change the lyrics of the famous musical hall song about Hackney Marshes and substitute: “If it wasn’t for the tower blocks in between”).<br /><br /><strong>THREAT 3 </strong>– a notice was put up by Hackney Council, proposing changes to the car parking plans associated with the Sports Pavilion on North Marsh agreed by the Planning Inspectorate last year. Placement of the notice and the length of time given to respond are questionable but so too is the apparent increase in vehicle spaces since the electric vehicle charging points recommended by TFL have been rejected. Hackney Council are applying to themselves for permission to remove the condition to reduce the parking spaces as previously agreed with TFL. SLM are on the case.<br /><br /><strong>THREAT 4</strong> – notice spotted at the Ice Centre car park for a Car Wash to set up shop – PURLEEZE!<br /><br /><strong>WRONG FORMULA</strong> – you may recall in a recent digest an item about Formula E racing in Battersea Park? An opposition group formed, crowdfunded the necessary amount and went to Judicial Review. It seems that the matter has been settled for this year, with the Formula E folk agreeing to restore the park to 'pre-March 2015 condition' and to put funding into future restoration. So it seems money talks or at least goes VRRROOM! Let’s hope that this decision does not affect future legal decisions.<br /><br /><strong>MESS IN THE RIVERS</strong> – good news that the London Waterkeeper’s group has been granted Charitable Status by the Charity Commission and is launching a new campaign to research and work towards improving London’s sewage polluted rivers. “Riversides”, will focus on the fact that so many rivers that flow through parks are contaminated with human effuluent and present a public health risk. Send comments and questions or generally find out more <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://londonwaterkeeper.org.uk/rivers&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNG-dqXoh2fvPGaRuDg10qUzZYbmCw" href="http://londonwaterkeeper.org.uk/rivers" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://londonwaterkeeper.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/rivers</a><br /><br /><strong>FUNDING</strong> - our friends at Edgefund are launching their sixth round of funding with a deadline of Sunday 3 July. The idea is to provide funding for groups who may be don’t use social media or who would not get traditional sources of funding to get some help with making an application see<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://edgefund.org.uk/about/staff&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNEUA7f38d0GXU8CCE-hyzEVQsZ6bw" href="https://edgefund.org.uk/about/staff" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://edgefund.org.uk/about/<wbr></wbr>staff</a> and to apply <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://edgefund.org.uk/2016/05/20/we-are-open-for-applications&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNGJJBKH8CP_BJp2JKTWVbeFSyq3Iw" href="https://edgefund.org.uk/2016/05/20/we-are-open-for-applications" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://edgefund.org.uk/2016/<wbr></wbr>05/20/we-are-open-for-<wbr></wbr>applications</a><br /><br /><strong>RESEARCH REQUEST</strong> - we were delighted to hear from a Geography Graduate student, preparing a dissertation on the Upper Lea Valley (and Walthamstow Wetlands), seeking views on the various us purposes that local people use the green space for and how individuals and communities see its future. If you would like to be interviewed (June-July), please contact <a href="mailto:rose.baldwin.15@ucl.ac.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">rose.baldwin.15@ucl.ac.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong><br /><br />Locally, a story in the <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em>: “A fence will not be built along a stretch of the M11 where 800 40 year old trees were removed despite noise and other complaints at Fiddlers Hamlet in Epping Forest”. Instead timber fencing, willow screening and new trees will be planted.<br /><br />In the <em>Hackney Gazette</em>, I noticed an intriguing advertisement on page 5 from the Department for Communities and Local Government see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.neighbourhoodplanning.org&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNFinGd0yDY9fmd_2DeUjzaurXt55Q" href="http://www.neighbourhoodplanning.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.neighbourhoodplanning.org</a> <br /><br />There has been a lot of coverage this week, particularly in <em>The Guardian</em> about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/25/london-empty-towers-very-british-corruption-tainted-wealth?CMP%3Dfb_gu&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNFQ_KKhxSiAv6gJ8h1QR866l2-GXg" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/25/london-empty-towers-very-british-corruption-tainted-wealth?CMP=fb_gu" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">unlived in housing blocks</a>; The Tower in Vauxhall is a good demonstration of a building owned by overseas investors and kept practically empty. Today (26 May), <em>The Guardian</em>, follows up on the story on pp.1,12,13 and letters (see particularly letter from the Waterloo Community Development Group), p.32. Other stories are p.13, National section “Forecast: Population falls in north as capital looks to house 10m”. Buried on p.36 under the weather is “Plantwatch” on the late spring burst of wildflowers but the decline in meadow plants due to industrial farming practices. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian.co.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700831000&usg=AFQjCNFbSt-D7w0b5PxqXTAQPZ7lOmZyxQ" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>POLICE CELL BY DATE - </strong>if you remember a while back, the digest mentioned the Department of Education’s plan to put a school into the old premises of the Mare Street Police Station, well it’s surfaced again with a change in response to complaints about the effect it would have on local traffic. Latest plans suggest putting a bus layby in St. John’s Church Yard. If you think this is a bad idea and not a “fair cop”, you need to write to Hackney Planning by 1 June <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackney.gov.uk/planning&source=gmail&ust=1465894700832000&usg=AFQjCNGdUbCM1H2C-riHsUM9zU-8CQyZkg" href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/planning" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackney.gov.uk/planning</a><br /><br /><strong>EVENTS</strong><br /><br />This Saturday sees the launch of <strong>Mabley Green’s regular gardening club 11am on Saturdays</strong>, bring enthusiasm, family and friends to tackle weekly jobs. Approach, from the Lee Conservancy Road side. Excellent for keen gardeners with no garden and those with no garden experience keen to learn ..<br /><br />After you have finished your stint of gardening you can jog over to <strong>Abney Park for the Spring Fun Day (12.00 – 4.00 p.m.), where SLM will be having a stall focused on the “Keep Hackney Pesticide Free” and Ice Centre campaigns. </strong>So come and see us and get involved. There will be lovely activities on offer too, check out<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://abneypark.org/&source=gmail&ust=1465894700832000&usg=AFQjCNH5624WqlzWPyB9oG0MYL7x8t5yzg" href="http://abneypark.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"> http://abneypark.org/</a><br /><br /><strong>NEXT SLM MEETING</strong> <strong>– Monday 30th May at 7.30pm</strong> in <strong>the Princess of Wales pub</strong> – we’ve decided to forget that it is a Bank Holiday and meet anyway seeing as there's lots to do to protect our marshes. New people always welcome.</div>
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<img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhkDfAFHo-w4cHtoi0iJkrPhbS7Dc3qCSJ8U5w2dIdXnocQYlTsJwOzQUcJZOoOAdAcvJvFTnjhyphenhyphen0AyoKTYYzbzo_pc5UCFzTdLMUc2Au0VKe7P0Lh7jZAqJbhid-bGjvorJwFfanRe8JBeczP4mGb3ikilskpoCBFvwB398gIOTvcZ0XUBTf_Ws_euj8mVW9R9qgg46Myvulq1i5suaU3CPzyMQ3g2iQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 533px; outline: none; width: 400px;" tabindex="0" width="400" /><br /><br />Bee orchids at Coppermill Fields, spotted by ranger @etlawlor1<br /><br /><br />This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes. We are a group of people living in the Lea Valley area who originally came together to protest against the building of the Olympic Basketball Facility on Leyton Marsh and have since expanded the campaign towards the protection and preservation of the marshes and other local green spaces for the benefit of wildlife and local people, now and in the future. If you would like to know more about our work and on-going campaigns do visit our website<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNH3qZMiZ8--O2CMSWkoEMApQkdqpQ" href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a><br /><br />Firstly, last week we organised a special edition to alert people to what they could do to prevent the latest main threat to the Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) on Leyton Marsh. There is still time to make your position known to the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, which will be making the next stage of decision making concerning the Ice Centre at its committee meeting on Thursday 16 June at 1.30pm. Please refer to last week’s digest or see our website.<br /><br />Secondly, we would like to welcome the new signers to our weekly digest that we met at the Stoke Newington event earlier this month. The digest is SLM’s way of keeping people up to date with concerns as well as, positive news about the marshes and our local environ plus any other news and events which we think our readers will be interested in locally, nationally and internationally. We are always keen to hear from our readers if there is anything they would like to share e.g. if you have spotted a rare plant or animal on the marshes or if you have seen any oil spills on the River Lea.<br /><br /><strong>RECENT UPDATES:</strong></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">We have previously reported plans to build a mixed development including three 18 storey tower blocks at 97 Lea Bridge Road. Sadly, Waltham Forest Planning Committee agreed the plan this week see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNG4sKdsHR6LN6EW6gvwZr2dm_-8og" href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/news</a><wbr></wbr> for further details and for the looming architecture that will shadow the local area.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">The dreaded Cricket screens have arrived on Hackney Marshes and Oh, dear! The Council, the Architects of the Cricket Pavilion and the Cricketers did not include in their plans a place to store them. Owzat for a balls-up!</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Many of you lingering at bus-stops may have spotted the information posters about the referendum featuring Hackney Marshes demonstrating the view. A clear view of the future of Europe therefore becomes entwined with the lack of a clear view the Cricket Pavilion will provide ...</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Two items of interest from the Hackney Planning Sub-Committee on Thursday this week (1) the current plans for a school on the site of the Old Police Station next to St. John’s Church have been turned down and (2) a plan for one temporary and six permanent mooring spaces on a site between Daubney Road and Kingsland Estate on the Lea have been turned down as “they would impact adversely on waterborne sport and leisure and located off the main navigational routes where facilities should normally be put; in order to protect and enhance the existing site and LVRPA land and because of flood risk.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Artwork in the Underpass organised with the RARA art group is progressing, go and have a look – just off the Lea Bridge Road near the Water Works Centre.</li>
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<strong>ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU “BRIDLE”</strong> – one of our group has been doggedly pursuing the issue of horses on the marshes and what the LVRPA’s policies are. In a recent reply to correspondence we learn that the Riding School does not charge its livery clients for roaming the bridle ways of the marshes they are treated as normal users. That sounds fine on the one hand but also involved in this decision appears to be the 5 year relationship between the Authority and the new Trust “Vibrant Partnerships” and that a “cost” isn’t charged because it would generate a “management charge” which would be counter to trying to keep costs to the ratepayers low. Also it would apparently negate one (which?) of the trust aims. I hope I have got this right, in any case I think SLM will want to look at this issue more closely.<br /><br /><strong>PETITIONS OF THE WEEK</strong> - our friends at Council for the Protection for Rural England – London have a new map of the areas of green belt that could be under threat from mass house-building. They are inviting people to write to their MPs about the issue via <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.theyworkforyou.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNG5xlhkyeYZAS6awtXnqTIT7f-KaA" href="http://www.theyworkforyou.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.theyworkforyou.org.uk</a> - if you don’t know your own MP or are concerned about another area there is a system that will direct you to the right representative.<br /><br />There is a complete <em>Frack Out</em> going on – first Greenpeace are organising to help the campaign around the first site agreed in Yorkshire <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNEQPBBji3bjHXmbq0lP8zZsIEnT7g" href="https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://secure.greenpeace.org.<wbr></wbr>uk</a> On twitter there are lots of active groups e.g. No Fracking in North Berwick <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/NoFrackingNB&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNEzgMcVHMC6iQFuLSgT_Celn_3dpA" href="https://twitter.com/NoFrackingNB" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@noFrackingNB</a><br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – The Evening Standard on Friday 3 June p.30<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNGPPm-B8e4ncOYmcBsryDWasMQ40Q" href="http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news</a><wbr></wbr> “Activitists persuade council to kill weeds without chemicals” – this is as a result of campaigners in Hammersmith & Fulham to stop spraying with glyphosate-based herbicides and use chemical-free methods such as foam and steam and how a growing campaign is trying to urge more local councils not to spray toxic chemicals around parks and schools.<br /><br />Plans to build workers’ houses on a farm in the Nazeing green belt have been approved by Epping Forest District Councils, although they will have to be removed if the farm closes.<br /><br />Notice in The Guardian on 7 June – In Memoriam for Katy Andrews. Katy – always with us. We plan to have a contemplative walk.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNG4sKdsHR6LN6EW6gvwZr2dm_-8og" href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/news</a><br /><br /><strong>EVENTS<br /><br />Thursday 16th June</strong> is the first public meeting of the Pesticide Free Hackney Campaign at<strong> 6.30pm at Hackney City Farm. Nick Mole from PAN UK will be speaking about alternatives to chemicals that councils can use and the international campaign against glyphosate. </strong>All welcome!<br /><br />Eamonn the LVPRA ranger has sent us news of <strong>Scything on the marshes for beginners sessions on 15<sup>th</sup> and 28 June from 10.00-1.00 p.m (meet at 9.45 at the Waterworks E10 7QB. Also, the annual Community Haystacks event takes place on the weekend of the 30-31 June. For further details Tweet @etlawlor1 or the LVRPA website </strong>(We like to encourage more natural methods of grass management than machines).<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.visit-lee-valley.org.uk/events&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNFgWcmnN7_W_t8-aZKR4yqpz0Botw" href="http://www.visit-lee-valley.org.uk/events" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.visit-lee-valley.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>events</a><br /><br /><strong>Stephen Vince</strong> an artist who made some artistic contributions to the Save Leyton Marsh Campaign has a new exhibition in Norwich which will later transfer to London see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.stephenVince.net&source=gmail&ust=1465894437073000&usg=AFQjCNHJVrYCE8wUQgnkJXQfHWo3-VPxCg" href="http://www.stephenvince.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.stephenVince.net</a><br /><br />The <strong>Tree Musketeers</strong> will be out watering new trees on South Millfields 6-8 p.m. see the Sustainable Hackney website for details <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://sustainablehakney.org.uk/events&source=gmail&ust=1465894437074000&usg=AFQjCNFRpE1thX8_Rg4fSk8kz6O-9zzUoA" href="http://sustainablehakney.org.uk/events" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://sustainablehakney.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/events</a><br /><br /><strong>Friends of Mabley Green</strong> continue their free weekly gardening session – bring family, friends and picknics – entrance on Lee Conservancy Road on <strong>Saturdays from 11.00 a.m..</strong> All welcome.<br /><br />Rasheeq or <strong>Hedge Herbs</strong> has sent us the latest news on lots of interesting courses and events for June for further details email <a href="mailto:Rasheeq@hedgeherbs.org.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Rasheeq@hedgeherbs.org.uk</a> or telephone her on 07784 506 404<br /><br /><strong>Clapton Jumble Trail this Sunday 12 June </strong>– come and visit “<strong>Maison Hattie’s Bits & Bobs” at 138 Millfields Road E5 0AD – </strong>as well as selling books, toys etc, we’ll be raising funds for Save Lea Marshes.<br /><br /><strong>NEXT SLM MEETING ON MONDAY 13<sup>TH</sup> JUNE AT 7.30 AT THE PRINCESS OF WALES PUB, LEA BRIDGE ROAD. All welcome – we will be discussing the Ice Centre amongst other issues.</strong></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203703614158804017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759768150617552418.post-90291782813839564732016-06-13T02:00:00.002-07:002016-06-13T02:00:13.018-07:00SLM Digest 20-5-16<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">To: yahoo group <</span><a href="mailto:saveleytonmarsh@yahoogroups.co.uk" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">saveleytonmarsh@yahoogroups.<wbr></wbr>co.uk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><br />
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<img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgOrHmCSbfF6zVUp82K8xXUC0XYLKNlaAqsii_jep3ovof0v6PaEc_JudsgP_3wvRNuHoDq3ukbwsevVBvh4g_6ql49IIMsUyjVH8S8vxnt4PIWaJR37JgH1OQxJbNeXsRRPyEoFjln5t9Ivp-Yrh-PJzRAK_Y=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; min-height: 375px; outline: 0px; width: 500px;" tabindex="0" width="500" /><br /><br />Image of the week: The River Lea in Spring glory shared by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/NicholasNakon&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNG2lE_9X-jW2VXbmkkpF2w3T0Cdyg" href="https://twitter.com/NicholasNakon" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@NicholasNakon</a><br /><br />With bird numbers and species declining it is always a welcome sight and sound to realise that the swifts are back in Hackney. I am watching their aerial ballet as I write this week’s digest. This week’s hot topic continues to be a cold one – the Ice Centre.<br /><br /><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong>RED LINE DISTRICT</strong></span> - SLM and representatives from local residents met this week to discuss the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority’s “Lee Valley Ice Centre Feasibility Exercise Stage 2 Report”, prepared for the Ice Centre Users and Local Community Information Sessions April 2016. (If you would like a copy, please request one from the LVRPA from <a href="mailto:s.dawson@vibrantpartnerships.co.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">s.dawson@vibrantpartnerships.<wbr></wbr>co.uk</a>).<br /><br />Our discussion centred on the role SLM will play and the different positions that could be taken by others in favouring any of the other three sites proposed if Leyton Marsh is ruled out. SLM’s position is that we oppose all building on Metropolitan Open Land and if any such land is taken, then we would want to see another bit of land freed up. We continue to be dismayed by the lack of real consultation and by the quality of the arguments of the report. The statistics pointing to the favoured choice of Leyton Marsh are not convincing economically, in terms of strategic transport accessibility or parking provision. Furthermore, there are strong reasons not to put a larger Ice Centre on the marsh, which include ground pollution, noise pollution; loss of view and amenity to the open space and creating even more traffic clogging on Hackney’s borders. The “red lines” around the map diagrams of the report appear to suggest the Leyton Marsh site could be expanded across most of the marsh, only the SINC by the river constituting a 'red line' for development. Our red line is somewhat different!<br /><br />SLM and other local residents will be attending the LVRPA’s meeting on 16 June, to bring these points to the attention of the committee when the report is presented. The meeting is open to the public.<br /><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">CANAL TWEETS</span> – we know that a number of our readers our housed on boats through choice or economic necessity and we know it is getting increasingly harder to find a stretch of the river to call home – so having been sent some tweets about organisations that can help, we thought we would pass them on: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/NbtaLondon&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNHSZHR69jPYlpFiNBNaHaLcVXHD-A" href="https://twitter.com/NbtaLondon" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@NbtaLondon</a> (National Barge Travellers Association) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/CRMisTrust&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNENRfNg6kE_H8b2tMUuh0fFZeBL2g" href="https://twitter.com/CRMisTrust" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@Canal&<wbr></wbr>RiverMisTrust</a> and of course the Canal and River Trust’s own account <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/CRTContactUs&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNEnVjM6M3IDmdAadXOygCe0_Yoc-A" href="https://twitter.com/CRTContactUs" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@CRTContactUs</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: saddlebrown;"><strong>LEA BRIDGE STATION RE-OPENING</strong></span> – it has finally happened. The station closed in 1985 due to low passenger numbers is now running every 30 minutes between Stratford and Tottenham Hale – two key transport hubs. There was an official launch on Monday and there will also be an ongoing art project in the summer to mark the occasion. The good news is that this will help local people get about but perhaps the downside is that it will open up more Klondyke style development bids..<br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> - The<em> <strong>Hackney Gazette</strong></em> has a story on p. 3 on “A knitting tribute to fabric of Stokey” – a fully knitted replica of Stokey Common by a local group called Common Thread, which will be on show in Stoke Newington Library and at the Chelsea Fringe Festival; on p.9 “Fly-posters told to leaf it out”, pinning posters on trees in London Field Trees (this is also happening in Millfields Park – don’t do it, it damages the trees!) and Letter of the Week on p.8 “London Fields mess cause for concern” based on the story from last week on misuse and refuse issues. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNGHMD3HjMtWlgV3sjStdfnqD_XUIA" href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk</a> <br /><br />Over in Waltham Forest, <em>The <strong>Waltham Forest Guardian</strong></em> has 'Waltham Forest’s Deputy Leader has called for an inquiry to reject Compulsory Purchase Orders' (CPOS), that would pave the way for the City Airport to acquire 12k kilometres of land for airport expansion. “The borough is the third most overflown in London after Hounslow and Richmond”, he said. Meanwhile, 500 Supporters of “Mini Holland”, met last Sunday after forming a Facebook group to back the project<br /> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNGEYw-balukMR2dQ08kpTP09rzjBw" href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news</a> <br /><br />In their latest mailing Waltham Forest Friends of the Earth, also back the scheme and ask people to show their support (I’m sure most of us would support the increased cycling/pedestrianisation versus more car pollution but the Lea Bridge Road is now a sad testament to a big cull of wild space which somewhat defeats the object!).<br /><br /><span style="color: teal;">National Stories</span> – a feature by Stephen Moss in last Sunday’s <strong>Observer</strong> “The messy limbo that is neither town nor country”, pp.10-11, on a new book about the brownfield in-between spaces which often have a richer range of wildlife, part of a new book by Stephen Moss 'Wild Kingdom:Bring Back Britain’s Wildlife' <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.observer.co.uk/nature&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNGzcDdOoh4YAIFTQv43YPkJewdDQA" href="http://www.observer.co.uk/nature" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.observer.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>nature</a> and on p.12 News section “Fresh Doubts over Thames Garden bridge as Sadiq Khan probes into £175m project“ (since then it looks like the current administration want to go ahead with less public money and more public use). <em><strong>The Sunday Times</strong></em>, p.7 had a story on the plight of the beached Whales “Toxins in sea linked to the stranding of Whales” – it is the fault of pollutants an PCBs from such things as electric equipment. <br /><br />A letter concerning the amount of pollution that faces local Hackney (and other borough schools) and the fact that a road bridge by Eton School was closed years ago for pollution reasons featured in the press this week.<br /><br />My favourite wildlife story of the week has to be <strong><em>The Evening Standard</em>,</strong> Monday 16 May, p.23 “Fantastic Mr Fox is a London Commuter”. Following the epic climb of a fox up the Shard a few years ago, our resourceful foxes are now riding escalators and catching tube trains...<br /><br /><strong>EVENTS</strong><br /><br />At <strong>Dalston Curve Garden</strong> this weekend - Floriography: The Bureau of the Unsaid, Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 May 2016, 1 - 5pm. The Garden will be visited by ‘Floriography: The Bureau of the Unsaid’, with artist Emily Tracy this weekend, to launch four weeks of ‘Dalston Flower Show’ events and activities at the Garden for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://dalstongarden.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D2210320d61bc318f062c521d4%26id%3De5a5c798e0%26e%3D73f56578d5&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNFxi1eCNy7GCNSncBDAyjs76rw6YA" href="http://dalstongarden.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2210320d61bc318f062c521d4&id=e5a5c798e0&e=73f56578d5" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Chelsea Fringe 2016</a>.</div>
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And it's a way ahead but you can book your place on a<strong> Free Bee Talk with Russell Miller - Thursday 16th June at 6pm </strong>at The House, Clissold Park<strong>. </strong>Register<strong> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-bee-talk-with-russell-miller-tickets-25376843823&source=gmail&ust=1465894700872000&usg=AFQjCNFVgFA_D9y3wOtIhbSotoA-YFsvNA" href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-bee-talk-with-russell-miller-tickets-25376843823" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">here</a></strong><br /><br />Next <strong>SLM meeting </strong>– we’re ignoring the fact that it is another Bank Holiday and having a meeting at <strong>7.30 p.m. in the Princess of Wales pub, Lea Bridge Road on Monday 30 May</strong>. Newcomers welcome. </div>
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<span style="color: green;">Keep Our Marshes Open and Green!</span></h3>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/search?q%3Dwalthamstowmarshes%26src%3Dtypd&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNHQWvOJRxjkTklYvqCTKJt-Z9LH3g" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=walthamstowmarshes&src=typd" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank" title="Image of the week tweeted from Walthamstow Marshes">I</a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/search?q%3Dwalthamstowmarshes%26src%3Dtypd&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNHQWvOJRxjkTklYvqCTKJt-Z9LH3g" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=walthamstowmarshes&src=typd" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">mage of the week tweeted from Walthamstow Marshes on a beautiful day by @therecorddeckuk</a><br /><br /><em>Firstly an apology, your ever so trusty CC asked me to do the digest last week and what with one thing and another, the time in front of my computer to compose it never appeared, partly due to looking for an abode in a more affordable part of the Lee Valley - so now instead you have a bumper digest this week! </em><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: darkgreen;">Leyton Marsh: a blooming lovely future?</span></strong><br /><br />Ice Rink Sessions about the future of the ice centre on Lea Bridge Road took place the week before last. The Saturday session was attended by mainly residents and SLM members. Hackney residents were objecting to it being on Leyton Marsh and others were putting forward the views of those from Markhouse ward who wanted it on the Waterworks site. SLM members asked a series of questions. The lack of notification of the meetings was raised and confirmed by almost everyone there – none of the Hackney or Waltham Forest residents had had anything put through their letterboxes nor seen any signs. We have since heard that at least some of Riverside Close was leafleted. Chief Exec Shaun Dawson was asked what the process was and he pointed to a guy at the back who was in charge (not sure if his company was hired, or if he works for the LVRPA). The guy said they’d put flyers through letterboxes within some small area from Leyton Marsh (residents from the flats said they hadn’t got any and couldn’t live closer) but didn’t cover areas around the other locations. He also claimed he’s put them up all around the marshes. When an SLM member said there weren’t any but had put some up only to see they were taken down, he said maybe the same people who took ours down took his down. Shaun Dawson insisted that the sessions were not “consultation”. There seemed to be a large number of people in the room who weren't impressed with the information presented as the conclusions were not properly explained.<br /><br />There is some better news in that nature has helped out in beginning to recreate the habitat that the LVRPA and ODA failed to reinstate on the site of the 'temporary' basketball site - in a rare rain-free interlude today I spotted dandelions, daisies, plantain and other species not really seen since the 'sports turf' specialists rolled out their version of golf course on top of Leyton Marsh. The new(ish) ranger Eamonn also sent us an update about Leyton Marsh plans (note no reference was made of the former basketball site and a conspicuous absence of reference to glyphosate) but there appear to be some good plans - we have lobbied for a long time to see an increase in less frequently mown areas of the marsh so are pleased to see this happening:<br /><br />"During 2013, an extended <strong>Phase I and NVC habitat survey</strong> was carried out by London Wildlife Trust for the site on behalf. The report provided an assessment of the habitat quality and provided some recommendations for us to incorporate into our management plan for the site.<br /><br /><strong>Grassland Management: </strong><br />The short turf amenity grassland area was reduced in size and these areas are now included in our grassland meadow management programme. This area was scarified in 2013 & ’14 to remove thatch and improve the ground for seeding with native wildflower species.<br />Sections of existing meadow grassland have been cut on alternate years during in September.<br /><br /><strong>Woodland Management:</strong><br />Essex Wharf holds some of our last mature woodland. Most of this is located on the island which is owned by Canal & River Trust. Lee Valley Park own and manage the mainland section. There are plans being developed to addressing this section and we hope to involve Thames 21 who have been advising us of options. This, we hope, will begin next season.<br /><br /><strong>Scrub Management</strong><br />Most of the woodland surrounding Leyton Marsh is in the form of scrub. Rather than promote mature woodland which would be limited in size and extent we are instead opting for mixed scrub. This will provide for a more diverse range of birds and other species.<br />The scrub areas received some thinning this winter with the aim of encouraging greater ground flora diversity. This thinning will continue next winter along the eastern edge which has become very densely grown and shaded over.<br /><br /><strong>Tree planting: </strong><br />This winter, we planted 120 whips of native origin around different areas of Leyton marsh with the aim of increasing lower story/shrub cover; something we lack at present. This I hope to continue over the next few seasons.<br /><br /><strong>Poplar Management:</strong><br />Our row of Native Black Poplar along the northern edge of Leyton Marsh is ageing and more prone to damage and symptoms of old age. Last winter, we planted in more N.Black Poplar between some of the trees to provide for the next generation.<br /><br /><strong>Invasive Species:</strong><br />Several areas of invasive giant bramble were cleared at sections of the marsh to reduce its extent and to provide opportunities for other native plants to grow instead. These areas were replaced with the aforementioned native trees that were planted. These areas will receive management over the next few seasons to help the trees grow successfully.<br />Japanese Knotweed and G. Hogweed have both been identified at several locations and are monitored closely. They are subject to our annual invasive species management programme.<br /><br /><strong>Birds</strong>: We recently purchased several bird boxes this March and I hope to install them across the marshes for next season.<br /><br /><strong>Bats:</strong> We recently purchased a number of bat boxes which we also intend to use across the marshes. I will be inviting an advisor from London Bat Group to help us install for next season.<br /><br /><strong>Site Management Workshops</strong>: Over the past several years, we have run Site Management Workshops. This takes in Leyton and Walthamstow Marshes providing an insight into the various management practices, what’s current and project updates for the sites. This is open to everyone and anyone and are held a 2 or 3 times a year. The last was April 30<sup>th</sup> and is advertised through our website and through our information boards.<br /><br /><strong>Community Engagement</strong>: With everything we do on Leyton Marsh, we try to involve the local community. Nearly all of the work which was completed this past year was with the assistance of Lee Valley Volunteers, Lea Bridge Road Conservation Volunteers, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) and our staff rangers."<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: navy;">Spring Migration: A tale from the wetlands</span></strong><br /><br />Check out this video by the London Wildlife Trust shared by Wetlands Steve this week - it features ornithologist Peter Beckenham talking about species spotted on Walthamstow Wetlands, including a common buzzard! As he says, Walthamstow is a hotspot for birds, due of course to the wonderful green spaces in this area: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DYohGeV0NAGI%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNG5FVSYndsFMOfPjPbwmZD9wY38Ww" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohGeV0NAGI&feature=youtu.be" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=YohGeV0NAGI&feature=<wbr></wbr>youtu.be</a><br /><br /><span style="color: violet;">A Familiar Tale</span><br /><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/HistoryOfStokey/status/729920719673511936&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNHnJpkqX1n8genTcnF1flGNQgIrjA" href="https://twitter.com/HistoryOfStokey/status/729920719673511936" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">History of Stokey</a> this week shared a fascinating commentary piece highlighting the fact that in the North of Hackney, areas previously green have been swallowed up and the only green lung that remains is Clissold Park. The date? 1886. The trend for building on green has sadly lasted although the voices speaking out for nature and green space have not died out...<br /><br /><img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhNQpzT0uJePun7lWe-SLgdYhWHcEyN9nrLtqpfVSIIDHiBWfrVM63dquJYisKBGNfm4MJ3FY6WVHBXiAInmc4Iol6Q0nyJiAZHqDOWfaGM0ouGswkDQdFrgb8na_mSP0Yj-9QQt7Jb7QcvKXgP07hHLsdMiBl1ujrRVSnLutgxfkncw_rRN-ey7uHtLHGY-KvTMGGcpNseievm9JtFgKFBKJwghiNJdA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; min-height: 666px; outline: 0px; width: 500px;" tabindex="0" width="500" /><br /><br /><span style="color: brown;"><strong>Tip-toeing through the marshes!</strong></span><br /><br />The image above shows the maps collated by Tales from the Marsh project at The Mill. To find out more about the workshops on offer for girls and women exploring Walthamstow Marshes through drama, movement, storytelling and art, visit: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/TalesMarsh&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNE9C6zk1hj62MAKP_vbFjSiefUZdw" href="https://twitter.com/TalesMarsh" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>TalesMarsh</a><br /><br /><span style="color: indigo;">Trashing Green Space</span><br /><br />Over in gentrified London Fields, people enjoyed the sunny spell like the rest of us but left their rubbish everywhere. Images of the sight facing Council workers was shared by Greener Hackney and taken up nationally by Greenpeace as reminder to respect our green spaces and not trash them: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/greenerhackney&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNGiCPSaV3gRXq4re87W4lkiuDiDKA" href="https://twitter.com/greenerhackney" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>greenerhackney</a><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">More Skyscrapers to Scrape Walthamstow Skies</span><br /><br />The <em>Waltham Forest Echo t</em>his week reported on the approval to build hundreds of homes on an old industrial site in the St James area of Walthamstow. Across the two sites there will be 656 homes however only 122 homes, less than 19 percent of the total planned, will be designated ‘affordable’. The borough’s own affordable homes target is 50 percent. Read more on the scheme here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/hundreds-of-homes-approved-for-industrial-site/&source=gmail&ust=1465894437248000&usg=AFQjCNF4OzYtYtfGT85lcSqBvUI9o9Xong" href="http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/hundreds-of-homes-approved-for-industrial-site/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>walthamforestecho.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>hundreds-of-homes-approved-<wbr></wbr>for-industrial-site/</a><br /><br /><span style="color: brown;">Wetlands For All?</span><br /><br />The May Day bank holiday saw the opening of Woodberry Wetlands. The site has not been open to the public for 200 years and the excitement was elevated by the guest appearance of David Attenborough who turned 90 this week and stressed the importance of assisting wildlife and improving everyone's access to nature. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2016/05/david-attenborough-opens-woodberry-wetlands/?utm_source%3Dtwitterfeed%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter&source=gmail&ust=1465894437249000&usg=AFQjCNEImbvtMvgz8JGQdqxZ5Qmrdu3dzQ" href="http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2016/05/david-attenborough-opens-woodberry-wetlands/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><em>East London Lines</em></a> and many other outlets covered the story of how the former Stoke Newington East Reservoir has been transformed from a site of heavily contaminated water to the vibrant lake and reed beds on display to the public today. However others were keen to point out that access to nature has become a class issue, since the very same Woodberry area was the site of the heavily criticised 'social cleansing' project which saw hundreds of former residents decanted elsewhere against their will. This excellent analysis appeared in <em>The Guardian</em> newspaper: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/18/-sp-truth-about-gentrification-how-woodberry-down-became-woodberry-park&source=gmail&ust=1465894437249000&usg=AFQjCNEwwldYNEaH0mR8MZR900Qzl2iwhg" href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/18/-sp-truth-about-gentrification-how-woodberry-down-became-woodberry-park" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>theguardian.com/society/2014/<wbr></wbr>may/18/-sp-truth-about-<wbr></wbr>gentrification-how-woodberry-<wbr></wbr>down-became-woodberry-park</a><br /><br /><span style="color: goldenrod;">Will the new Mayor make space for us?</span><br /><br />Growers in Waltham Forest are demanding that the new mayor make space for community food growing projects in the capital. Waltham Forest is one of the 'leading lights' for community food growing in London Read more <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Echo-14.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1465894437249000&usg=AFQjCNHcLL8wrbGBHW5S89lyhqq8oQDOKQ" href="http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Echo-14.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><strong>Events</strong><br /><br /><strong>Lea Bridge Station Opening Party</strong> - On <strong>16th May at 6pm</strong> the Hare & Hounds pub will be hosting a party celebrating the opening of Lea Bridge Station after many many years! Our late friend and fellow campaigner Katy Andrews campaigned for many years for the reopening and we wish she were here to see it happen. However, you can be, join the Facebook event <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://www.facebook.com/events/1693177347599266/&source=gmail&ust=1465894437249000&usg=AFQjCNFAPynkCdNsqNmrv-XXetl84ucAVw" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1693177347599266/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><strong>Tree Musketeers Sessions</strong>:<br /><br />Thurs 5th May - watering new trees - Well Street Common - 6pm - 7.30pm <br /><br />Sun 15th May - watering new trees - Hackney Downs - 6pm - 8pm<br /><br />Sun 22nd May - watering new trees - South Millfields - 10.30am - 1pm<br /><br />Mon 23rd May - watering new trees - Clissold Park - 6pm - 8pm<br /><br />Sat 28th May - Tree Nursery Saturday - Hackney Community Tree Nursery - 10am - 2pm<br /><br />Mon 6th June - watering new trees - Downs or WSC (venue to be confirmed) - 6pm - 8pm<br /><br />Sun 12th June - watering new trees - South Millfields - 6pm - 8pm<br /><br />See the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/events&source=gmail&ust=1465894437249000&usg=AFQjCNHAeBTL87wfL_q1vt0E5aH0YOkjRw" href="http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/events" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Sustainable Hackney events page </a>for more details.<br /><br /><strong>Our next meeting</strong> - postponed from this week, will be next <strong>Monday 16th May at 7.30pm</strong> at the Princess of Wales pub. 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<img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjB24278rSsk63s98gFDDjZq2ef_Q_bwCWq_xsOipyB30sVZVGhKCBny15AR5NcZB0gOy5gd4kjrpYgmIFtQfPb161ooV4v2HtUayiPvg0rMw2pJz4OAMFrZrMxmz5X5gDIVDJBWJOd4XoTyPtMhn-fUMzphd0I3z8DL3i-WMGo-0VXG1j-X6vjUrUYy21dPlnNm8Lmdjx_iuYe_F676soUbEYTABD7rw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; min-height: 450px; outline: 0px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /><br /><strong>Found on Walthamstow Marshes this week by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/Exposure17/status/725282639398207489&source=gmail&ust=1465894437287000&usg=AFQjCNEuH65Hn2C-i9U-hxfF82xham08pQ" href="https://twitter.com/Exposure17/status/725282639398207489" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">@Exposure17 </a>(Nathaniel Legall) - here's a glimpse of a pygmy shrew! Nathaniel found a range of different mouse and vole species</strong><br /><br />This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes. We are an open group of people living in the Lea Valley area working towards preserving and improving the condition of the local marshes and green spaces for wildlife and people now and in the future. Find out more about our work via our website <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894437287000&usg=AFQjCNEarm_BU8a2LZBnViar9QxDk2229A" href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a><br /><br />Living conditions – the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we use to grow food – basic conditions for human and other life, without it, we and the planet would die. So why does the environment come second or lower in the scale of making planning decisions, and money issues get first slot human thinking. Why does it so often come down to confrontation, when a bit of common sense could make things work better? I’m raising this because of the issues confronting us locally this week:<br /><br /><strong>ICY-BLASTS</strong> – last night one of the consultation meetings organised by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA), over the placement of a new twin-pad ice rink, took place. Some SLM members attended and have reported back on the situation so far. It looks like, the preferred option is, as we feared, Leyton Marsh. This would involve construction work further out towards the roadside frontage but may also involve building a temporary rink (maybe in a tent), onto the main area of Leyton Marsh, which is deeply concerning from a wild life point of view on Metropolitan Open Land, and for local residents, who have already experienced noise issues from the current building plus ongoing building work and other usual noise disturbance. We are not kill-joys and recognise that the rink is a popular local resource, but the rink doesn’t have to be built on the marsh and from what we have seen of the figures and information provided, the arguments are less than convincing. Rink users too, will have to think about whether building on the current site will meet their needs. Is it best for transport? What happens during the estimated 18 month construction period. Surely, it would make sense to keep the old ice rink in operation while a new one is built rather than have inadequate provision which may affect competition training. We will report back in more depth about this, however we would strongly <strong>urge you </strong>to come to either of the meetings <strong>this Saturday 30 April, either at 11.00am at the Ice Rink or from 1.00pm to 3.30pm at the Waterworks Centre</strong>, both in the Lea Bridge Road. The Waterworks Centre, is also one of the sites for the rink that has been under consideration.<br /><br /><strong>ADVICE & VOLUNTEERS</strong> – we hear that the Tree Musketeers and Hackney Marshes Users Group have been invited to a meeting to discuss tree/shrub planting and on-going tree maintenance for the area that will supposedly screen the proposed Cricket Pavilion on Hackney Marshes. As independent organisations they will obviously make up their own minds on whether to do this. On the one hand, we would want to opt for the best planting and care possible, but on the other, both groups along with SLM fought hard to have the pavilion built on the site of the existing changing rooms and not plonked right in the middle of the marsh, causing more disruption to some of the 1,000 tons of war rubble that lies beneath...<br /><br /><strong>OXBOW ISLAND</strong> – SLM are continuing to monitor the situation re. Oxbow Island, which is controlled by the Canals and Rivers Trust (CaRT). Last week we reported Glyphosate spraying near the Island but we are also concerned about the nature area surviving occasional moorings by party goers and indeed the possibility of CaRT putting in permanent moorings to earn income.<br /><br /><strong>FRACK PACK</strong> – Emma and Sophie Thompson of acting fame are currently acting up noisily, with egg whisks and wooden spoons, making lots of noise in a field in Lancashire that is due to be fracked. You can view their humous antics with a serious purpose and spread the word via <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/frackfreebakeoff&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNFe7dRyrvt_Lx3KVKEmtSxYmO0ReA" href="https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/frackfreebakeoff" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://secure.greenpeace.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/frackfreebakeoff</a><br /><br /><strong>PEDAL POWER</strong> – although we don’t want to advocate more of the mistakes we have seen with the Mini Holland Scheme, improved cycling routes are of concern and the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) have a petition to see cycling kept on the GLA’s agenda, sign the petition by visiting <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.lcc.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNEu0HsLkYtzyk9ahDv4Pe8TRKSTaw" href="http://www.lcc.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.lcc.org.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – nationally and locally glyphosate use is in the news. First we have received a tweet from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://twitter.com/PAN_UK&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNEPqkdxZDPfXy5iBqGbuqj7IJIR2g" href="https://twitter.com/PAN_UK" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@PAN_UK</a> that pesticide industry is trying to make it look like they support bees rather than kill them with their poisons. Then we have the Hackney Gazette 28 April, p.2 “Council unswayed by call to ban weedkiller; Chief insists spraying London Fields meadow is safe”<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNGOkLwnPAOCtHvwWqNnZH0JwSNQsQ" href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.hackneygazette.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/news/environment/hackney_<wbr></wbr>council_unswayed_by_fresh_<wbr></wbr>calls_to_ban_glyphosate_<wbr></wbr>weedkiller_1_4511362</a><br /><br />Then comes news from Bristol that the Council there is experimenting with keeping certain areas of the city free of pesticides and are trying out the use of vinegar as a weedkiller.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://m.westerndailypress.co.uk/Bristol-smells-vinegar-council-tries-to-kill-weeds/story-29167088-detail/story.html&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNGX3WiPtXAxcwtb0QKlUOnX4zQKLg" href="http://m.westerndailypress.co.uk/Bristol-smells-vinegar-council-tries-to-kill-weeds/story-29167088-detail/story.html" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://m.westerndailypress.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/Bristol-smells-vinegar-<wbr></wbr>council-tries-to-kill-weeds/<wbr></wbr>story-29167088-detail/story.<wbr></wbr>html</a><br /><br />The same publication also has a story on dogs being burned by Giant Hogweed<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://m.westerndailypress.co.uk/warning-sent-dog-suffers-horror-burns-hogweed/story-29158482-detail/story.html&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNGOe4vw7F0ljTFfeImttY12uNMd3Q" href="http://m.westerndailypress.co.uk/warning-sent-dog-suffers-horror-burns-hogweed/story-29158482-detail/story.html" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://m.westerndailypress.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/warning-sent-dog-suffers-<wbr></wbr>horror-burns-hogweed/story-<wbr></wbr>29158482-detail/story.html</a><br /><br /><em>Hackney Today</em>, 25 April, p.p.1 4-5 features “Wonderful wetlands”, about the new Woodberry Wetlands. This has also been covered in the<em> Evening Standard</em> this week and elsewhere. (Great about the Wetlands, shame about the social cleansing and property speculation involved). Also, <em>Evening Standard </em>Wednesday 27 April, pp.8-9 <em>Homes & Property</em> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/homes%26property&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNELTEYH7wF91WHLfEjEQcsB0I_Wcg" href="http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/homes&property" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.eveningstandard.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>homes&property</a><br /><br />The <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em> has a story about an old cinema in Buxton Street, Walthamstow that seems destined to become a five story block of flats “Conservation Society ‘disappointed with art-deco cinema’ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNHsHNSzz4QyIuAcL-m48KM6Pn2SAA" href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/news</a><br /><br />“Toxic air kills 1,000 in 4 months; call for diesel ban”, is the headline of the <em>Evening Standard</em>, Thursday 28 April, p.p.1&4. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNHjqyxTAAXYJrHwVnxLzKzF8WJFgQ" href="http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.standard.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news/london/1000-londoners-<wbr></wbr>killed-in-four-months-by-the-<wbr></wbr>capitals-toxic-air-a3235841.<wbr></wbr>html</a><br /><br />“Kapoor: slide was foisted on my tower by Mayor”, story on the slide of funds, (the Mittal Orbit tower loses £10k per week) and they think the addition of a slide costing £17 per trip will solve the problem. The Guardian, 27 April, p.12 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.Guardian.co.uk/national&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNEUHi0icC7Xts7IzuAwvP4L_P0O7Q" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/national" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a><br /><br />“No fungi: the crackdown on foraging as Epping Forest forager gets a criminal record and a bill of £364”. The Guardian, G.2, p.2 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/shortcuts&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNF2ignUyJu3avxL4B2pZTZ2LVXzhw" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/shortcuts" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a> Also, more silliness on slides ...<br /><br /><strong>EVENTS</strong><br /><br />Baby Tree Care at Hackney Tree Nursery on Sat 30th April. See website for details:<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/events/event/listUpcoming&source=gmail&ust=1465894437288000&usg=AFQjCNFKE2sZqcM0KSyOiNOHEYeQHsloMw" href="http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/events/event/listUpcoming" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://sustainablehackney.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/events/event/listUpcoming</a><br /><br /><strong>Next SLM meeting, Monday 9 May at the Princess of Wales pub, Lea Bridge Road, E5.</strong></td></tr>
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Last weekend on a short walk, spotted the first cricket game of the season and new markings on Hackney Marshes; sighed with dismay at the onslaught of the Mini Holland Scheme along the Lea Bridge Road and collected two bags of litter on the way – mostly cans and bottles of alcohol and energy drinks, so stuffed with sugar that people haven’t the energy to dispose properly of their own cans once they’ve drunk them...<br />
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<strong>RIDING, RIDING</strong> – there’s a new sign by the Riding Stables, indicating there are two areas that can be used by horse-riders at specific times of the year. However, the map has gone. Our chief SLM correspondent on this matter is continuing his quest to make some sense of the policy; if people know what that is and who’s responsible...<br />
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<strong>POISON FREE-SELFIES</strong> – be part of the protest. Photograph yourself with a placard stating that you want Hackney to be “Pesticide Free” and post it to the group ‘Pesticide Free Hackney’ on Facebook <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://www.facebook.com/PesticideFreeHackney&source=gmail&ust=1465894317005000&usg=AFQjCNFgakb9yxgUQhv8goA-xKIfiSpZlg" href="https://www.facebook.com/PesticideFreeHackney" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>PesticideFreeHackney</a><br />
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<strong>TWITTERNS & BYWAYS</strong> – the initial meeting of volunteers to map and record the Rights of Way in Waltham Forest that we mentioned in last week’s Digest, took place yesterday. A grid system has been drawn up and we are looking for more volunteers to take “a grid or more”. Volunteers will be given their bit of the map and be asked to walk and chart their appointed alleyway or path, as well as photograph it if possible. The aim is to register the paths before a new act to be introduced in 2026 to safeguard them against building and keep them open for public use. We also plan to document, maybe produce a data base and get on the Council’s case to do the job they should have done in 1965! To volunteer to be a “TAB-BY” (as in T & B – we also met in a cat-centred pub), contact<a href="mailto:abigail.woodman@btinternet.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">abigail.woodman@btinternet.com</a> who will allocate you a square to walk.<br />
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<strong>IN THE PRESS</strong><br />
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Locally: The <em><strong>Waltham Forest Guardian</strong></em> has news of two controversial developments approved by Tuesday 12 April Planning Committee: 183 homes and 3 rental units to be built on the former Essex Brewery site in St. James’ Street – some planning committee members voiced concern over only 14 per cent affordable housing and also a school extension to a school in Chingford.<br />
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Over in Hackney: <em><strong>The Hackney Gazette</strong></em> has a report on p.2 on “GLA advisers urge Boris to refuse skyscrapers at Bishopsgate” – threat to neighbourhood in terms of “light blight” and change to the nature of the area. There will be a demonstration outside City Hall at lunchtime on Monday to try to stop Boris taking one last brutal act.... “Report into ‘ quietway’ in London Fields is published” p.7 and on p.9 “Neighbours ’anger over site problems” – squatters, fly-tipping and noise blighting lives around the old Magnet premises in Leagrave Street, Clapton (near Millfields Park). Plans for a four storey block on the site were being discussed at Hackney Planning Department last night.<br />
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“Nationally: <em><strong>The Guardian</strong></em> has a number of interesting stories in <strong>Thursday 14 April</strong> – this is just a few: “Olympians join fight to halt levy by council on park run”. It is about a Bristol Parish Council trying to charge a regular group of “Parkrun” for wear and tear of its regular weekly mass runs. P.5 ; “Wide support for ban on microbeads to save marine life” – a Greenpeace poll reveals that women don’t want marine-threatening pollution in their personal care products, p7; shorts on “Lump of whale vomit could sell for £50k” (the finders want to use money to buy a static caravan!) and “Moth experts seek to put females off the scent” to trick them away from clothes, p.10 and “British fracking loophole could lead to repeat of U.S. mistakes” p.13. On the same page, my favourite laugh out loud piece, which is even funnier than the whale vomit “When Nessie met Sherlock: strange case of lost and sunken film prop” – divers thought they’d found Nessie but it was a 1969 film prop! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/national&source=gmail&ust=1465894317005000&usg=AFQjCNEegFNvyl8LeoV1D4tGqNhT1-Hz5w" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/national" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/national</a><br />
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<strong>EVENTS</strong> – next General Meeting for all London Friends Groups and Borough Friends Forums is on Monday 18 April from 6.00-8.00 p.m. at the downstairs committee room adjacent to Cafe in City Hall, 110 The Queen’s Walk, SE1 2AA.<br />
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<strong>BIG DIG DAY</strong> – includes planting on Mabley Green from <strong>11.00 on Saturday 16<sup>th</sup></strong>, loads of fruit trees to go in.. meet by the Lea Conservancy Road entrance; Dalston Eastern Curve Garden; Cordwainers Garden, Mare Street and the Castle Climbing Centre off Green Lanes, Stoke Newington, also have events supported by the organisation Capital Growth.<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.capitalgrowth.org.uk&source=gmail&ust=1465894317005000&usg=AFQjCNEnO6OdygNWs86QQCrMbLkUAlA0ag" href="http://www.capitalgrowth.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.capitalgrowth.org.uk</a><br />
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<strong>People’s Food Fair</strong> – also <strong>on Saturday 16 April,drop-in from 11.3.00 p.m.,</strong> for planting, eating, learning and laughing. Full programme on the webpage<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.hornbeam.org.uk/2016/04/peoples-food-fair-16-April2016&source=gmail&ust=1465894317005000&usg=AFQjCNEGeYBFWERYbxwLU7Iz7wPcchHSYA" href="http://www.hornbeam.org.uk/2016/04/peoples-food-fair-16-April2016" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hornbeam.org.uk/2016/04/<wbr></wbr>peoples-food-fair-16-April2016</a><br />
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<strong>Sustainable Hackney</strong> have their latest newsletter out detailing lots of local and London-wide events – these include: <strong>the People’s Assembly National Demonstration for Health, Homes, Jobs and Education on Saturday April 16 at 1.00-4.00 p.m. meet at Euston & Melton Street, NW1 and on May 8 from 12.00-4.00 p.m. “Going Backwards” a backwards walk to demonstrate against the Government’s backward steps on Climate Change. </strong> Much other interesting stuff too, so check<br />
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<strong>Next SLM MEETING – MONDAY 18 APRIL AT 7.30 P.M. at the Princess of Wales pub. Newcomers and returners always welcome.</strong><br />
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</span>This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes. We are an open group of people living in the Lea Valley Area keen to protect the marshes and green spaces of the Lea Valley for wildlife to survive and thrive and for local people to enjoy now and for generations to come. To find out more about our work go to <a href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a><br /> <div style="padding: 0px;">
<strong>DIRTY DIESEL</strong> – Neighbours have been left “extremely sad’ after an oil tank ruptured and spilt 5k litres of diesel into the River Lea near Markfield Park, which spread 2 kilometres to Tottenham Weir. The Environment Agency (EA) and Thames Water are dealing with the clean up which is likely to be toxic all kinds of wildlife on the river. More on the story <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/14410662.Neighbours_left____extremely_sad____after_oil_tank_rupture_spills_5_000_litres_of_diesel_into_river/?ref=twtrec" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><strong>THERE MAY BE RUBBLE AHEAD</strong> – an SLM member has just updated on the “mash-up” of vegetation that is happening on the Lea Bridge Road section of the Waltham Forest Mini Holland Scheme – already running behind schedule. More trees cut down, vegetation trashed and lots of rubble .. no thought for the wildlife that thrive in habitat that some might not regard as tidy but acts as an important breeding ground and link to wider landscape. Here’s just one photo courtesy of the photographer.<br /><br /><img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgqxKo4nWPpP0UNvIHTcQleDLxP4qZI6n5xQ0R_rrnkMr3FC_8HroeMMrBScoC-n-SdaLFE8_RyceWF9IL8EG5Czeh_ESDcU_30XLfA7ZJHtQpnp2ng_FRLkjLMPMTvt0nx2MGnNdM1VvXMDx0bUdJbZj89CFrzGUtc6cn1RTBvP1wuhFQNAC4VuRF51XVn6-JPi7et1kEmS01K4yzIMTMRaiAlQMapbQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; min-height: 150px; outline: 0px; width: 200px;" tabindex="0" width="200" /><br /><br /><br /><strong>KNOW THY TWITTERNS FROM THY BYWAYS</strong>? Rights of Way, have not been fully mapped in Waltham Forest and as a new law which requires them being mapped by 2026 or lost forever has been introduced, local people are taking action. A meeting has been organised for this coming Wednesday 13 April from 6.30-7.30 p.m. in the garden of the Nag’s Head, Orford Road, Waltham Forest to discuss the mapping process and make a start on some of the nearby byways and passage ways.<br /><br />A group of volunteers will be formed to take a grid, walk and map it and then add to a whole picture. Even if you can’t do a lot, every little will help. If you like the idea and want to come along to the meeting or offer help contact Abi: <a href="mailto:abigail.woodman@btinternet.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">abigail.woodman@<wbr></wbr>btinternet.com</a><br /><br /><strong>SURVEY </strong>- Friends of the London Green Spaces Friends Groups have alerted SLM to a report on the state of UK Public Parks compiled in 2014 from a survey of Friends and local community groups involved with their local parks. A new survey is now being carried out. If you are a member of a local friends group please go to: <a href="https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=145856072517" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://www.snapsurveys.<wbr></wbr>com/wh/s.asp?k=145856072517</a><br /><br /><strong>FUNDING</strong> – also of interest to friends of parks and other community groups - The City of London Growing Localities scheme is offering £5k awards to projects based in any London borough, where people are using growing or green space to help improve their communities. For details see:<br /><a href="http://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.lemosandcrane.co.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>SUTTON LANDS </strong>– CPRE London have informed us of their petition to try and stop Sutton Council from building on 10 protected Green Belt and MOL lands in the area – of local and London-wide importance. The closing date is 8 April but if this reaches you after this date it might be worth lobbing something in over the weekend just in case at<a href="mailto:planningpolicy@sutton.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">planningpolicy@sutton.gov.uk</a> Please find further details on the CPRE website<a href="http://www.cprelondon.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.cprelondon.org.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>ICE-SAY AGAIN</strong> - A reminder about the upcoming opportunities to have your say about the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority’s proposals for a two-pad ice rink. The meetings are:<br /><br /><strong>Wednesday 27 April 5 - 6pm (primarily for Ice Centre users) <br /><br />7 - 8pm for others at the Lee Valley Ice Centre on Lea Bridge Road<br /><br />Saturday 30 April 10.30-11.30am for Ice Centre Users at the Ice Centre<br />1.00-3.30pm at the Waterworks Centre, Lea Bridge Road for local people and community groups.</strong><br /><br />This has been added on to the Workshop Meeting which will discuss other issues concerning the Lea Valley and LVRPA management.<br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – <em>The Waltham Forest Guardian</em> features news that Jubilee Park in Ongar will be holding organised family fun day events every Friday in the summer.<br /><br /><em>The Waltham Forest Echo</em> – the area’s up and coming independent newspaper features an article on p.5 about the transformation of the Lea Bridge Road area and other interesting local stories. <a href="http://www.walthamforestecho.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.walthamforestecho.co.uk</a> <br /><br />In Hackney <a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank" title="The Hackney Gazette">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</a> : 69 flats planned for site of ‘free school’ where a former fire station set to become new primary, p.9; Hackney Council wins top award from the Local Government Chronicle panel said “the council had shown areas of high deprivation can also be areas of high achievement and praised it for its commitment to the community renewing public infrastructure, securing a legacy from 2012 and improving education”. Also, p.9. Letters Page has a letter calling on support to block the new Housing and Planning Bill email <a href="mailto:brandon.lewis@communities.gsi.gov.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">brandon.lewis@communities.gsi.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk</a> and on the Property Page an advertisement for “Clissold Quarter” with a photo of “Lego-like” blocks that will be overlooking Clissold Park Hackney Gazette 7 April,<a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/property" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>property</a><br /><br />Nationally: Pollution alert as heat-wave hits UK (last weekend) - an ‘agricultural smog of toxic farm chemicals from Europe.. Sunday Times 3 April, <a href="http://www.sundaytimes.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.sundaytimes.co.uk/news</a><br /><br />pp.1-2; Battle begins to stop Thames becoming ‘skyscraper canyon’ and another story about Bigger Gatwick ‘threatens re-wilding' p.16 and Hackney’s in a bit of a state; three flags put up spelling Hackney – Is - Fashion in the new fashion district of Hackney where locals viewed the one bearing IS with some suspicion.. Focus p.21.<br /><br />The Guardian 5 April p.17 Climate change will be worse than polio, says US health study, which includes the estimated numbers of heat-related deaths will increase by 11,000 by 2030. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>international</a><br /><br /><strong>EVENTS </strong>– our friends at The Mill have some great stuff coming up, which includes: “Tales from the Marsh” – drama/research workshops for Girls and Mothers starting Saturday mornings. To book call Siobhan O’Neill on 07989519522 or email<a href="mailto:siobhan.oneill2014@live.rhul.ac.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">siobhan.oneill2014@live.rhul.<wbr></wbr>ac.uk</a> and there is also a fundraising Concert on Sunday 10 April from 4.00-5.00 p.m. at St. Barnabas Church E17 8JZ. Donations will go to The Mill. For details of these and other events go to<br /><a href="http://themill-coppermill.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://themill-coppermill.org/</a><wbr></wbr> <br /> <wbr></wbr> <br />There is also no-stopping Hedge Herbs for an interesting and ever expansive range of events. Their April update includes: <strong>Sunday 23 April from 12.00-2.00 pm the monthly guided herb walk across Walthamstow Marshes, meet at The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7AH.</strong> Fee is £7.00 (£5.00 concessions) which must be booked in advance from Rasheeqa on 0778450649 or <a href="mailto:rasheeqa@hedgeherbs.org.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">rasheeqa@hedgeherbs.org.uk</a> <br /><br /><strong>Sunday 17 April</strong> in collaboration with Hackney Herbs and Gone Wild Herbs an event at<strong>Cordwainers Garden, 182 Mare Street, London,E8 3RG from 2.00-5.30.</strong><br /><br />The April update also includes news of the <strong>annual Radical Herbal Gathering on 3-5 June at Crabapple Community in Shropshire.</strong> <a href="http://www.hedgeherbs.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hedgeherbs.org.uk</a> for further details.<br /><br /><strong>Next SLM MEETING ON MONDAY 18 APRIL AT 7.30 P.M. , PRINCESS OF WALES PUB, LEA BRIDGE ROAD</strong>. New people always welcome. We know it can be a bit daunting trying to catch up with the ‘minutae’ of SLM affairs but we do our best to get people up to speed – so don’t be shy, give SLM a try.<br /> </div>
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<br /><img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjWfzExA8yWp8eCo1GHLfpDXgD8bBpQsUgCY_yUxhqsch61sVtZajeGjRulGeKuTXoF1Gsm8e5mjm9PHnOlxg8FuWA5dExUq_w_bOrVBejU62G5RScZFS3YQJJcqjqTZJ2B8z5nElsailwPE63EAtE=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; min-height: 369px; outline: 0px; width: 300px;" tabindex="0" width="300" /><br />Little egret spotted on Hackney Marshes and shared<br />on Twitter by @RoseStephensArt!<br /><br />This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes. We are an open group of people living in the Lea Valley area devoted to keeping the marshes and green spaces in good condition for wildlife and local people for now and in the future. To find out more about our work go to <a href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a><br />This week’s round-up includes:<br /><br /><strong>MYSTERY HOUSE</strong> – no not as featured on “Escape to the Country” but the one on the edge of Hackney Marshes, next to the Travellers’ site that we reported on last week. Further enquiries have revealed that this was sold by Hackney Council about ten years ago, so we are now following up on who owns it...<br /><br /><strong>CLIP CLOTS</strong> – one of our intrepid correspondents has had a response to an enquiry from Vibrant Partnerships otherwise known as the Lee Valley Trust Ltd., on the precise whereabouts of the signage board depicting the information about routes for horse riders on the marshes. The reply states that it is: ‘at the entrance to the parks as one leave’s the paddocks and joins the Lee Valley pathway on the right-hand side’. Furthermore, the letter states that the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (with whom previous correspondence has been conducted and the body which gets guidance on such matters from Walthamstow Marsh from Natural England), has had this role seemingly passed to the Trust. Also, the Lee Valley Riding Centre is: ‘not responsible for monitoring riders’ and there ‘ have been no official reports made to the Centre’ (which it is not monitoring anyway) but there is a promised of (no date given) a future review.<br /><br /><strong>ICE-SAY</strong> – the LVRPA are conducting their next round of consultations. On Saturday 30 April from 10.30-11.30 a.m. there will be a meeting for Ice Centre users (presumably at the Ice Rink – check he LVRPA website <a href="http://www.leavalley.org.uk/events" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.leavalley.org.uk/events</a> ) and another for other local people added on to the Workshop at the Waterworks Centre, Lea Bridge Road from 1.00-3.30 (this is an extra half an hour to the previously advertised meeting). Another date is also being fixed for SLM and other local groups possibly on the 26-27 March (we’ll keep you updated).<br /><br /><strong>PETITION OF THE WEEK</strong> – last week we mentioned the new Pesticide Free Hackney launch. There is now a petition against use of glyphosate and other chemicals being used on Hackney streets. Used for weed control, these substances have been found to be carcinogenic. To sign the petition go to <a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pesticide-free-hackney-1" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://you.38degrees.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>petitions/pesticide-free-<wbr></wbr>hackney-1</a><br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> - “Bomb disposal unit explode grenades..” dog walker finds unexploded devices in a wooded area in Epping. <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/news</a><br /><br />“Seeds are finally planted for Britain’s biggest edible park” – feature on Mabley Green, p.14 Hackney Gazette, 31 March <a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</a> <wbr></wbr><br /><br />In The Guardian 31 March, “Member of EDF board urges power plant delay” and “£2.8bn effort to keep lights on in UK ‘wasteful and not working’ p.24 and “Hinkley C needs Plan B”, p.25<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/financial" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a> and “Mild winter boosts tally of small birds visiting gardens” p.11 (good news) but terrible news of “Sea levels may rise more rapidly than forecast”, p.14 scientists find ice far less stable than was thought.. Also “UK and US to test nuclear plant resilience” p.14<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/national" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>FUNDING NEWS </strong>- the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces - representing 5,000 local friends of parks and open spaces groups – has informed us of up to £12k for local green spaces improvements that have community benefit but do not charge for access, being administered by the Groundwork Trust via the Tesco ‘Bags of Help’ scheme. This is money raised by charging customers 5p for plastic bags (which we hope will not end up in our parks and open spaces). The scheme opens on 18 April and details found on <a href="http://www.groundwork.org.uk/tescobagsofhelp" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.groundwork.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>tescobagsofhelp</a><br /><br />Our friends at Voluntary Action Waltham Forest have also sent us information on:<br /><br />(1) A Community Access Fund from the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (deadline 23 August 2016 for projects that must be scheduled before 1 September) to cover costs of group sports tester sessions and<br /><br />(2) Comic Relief Fund Local Communities Programme (rolling programme until 4 October 2016) for service-led groups empowering local people to make a change in their local communities. Further details see<br /><a href="http://www.voluntaryaction.net/services/fundraising" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.voluntaryAction.<wbr></wbr>net/services/fundraising</a><br /><br /><strong>EVENTS</strong><br /><br />Advance news of the annual <strong>Walthamstow Garden Party on Saturday 16 July from 11.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. </strong><br /><br /><strong>NEXT SLM MEETING ON MONDAY 4 APRIL 2016 AT THE PRINCESS OF WALES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD AT 7.30 P.M.</strong><br /> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12203703614158804017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759768150617552418.post-28468459644735300162016-04-08T12:15:00.000-07:002016-04-08T12:15:09.381-07:00Ice Centre Redevelopment<blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" type="cite">
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wed 27<sup>th</sup> April 5-6pm IC users; 7-8pm local community session<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sat 30<sup>th</sup> April 1030-1130 IC users; 1-3.30pm Filter Beds & Marshes Group (existing group of local community/residents) plus local community<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sessions to held at the IC except for the Sat afternoon session which will take place at the Waterworks.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We will be posting notices around the IC/LBR area, using the various networks and also a leaflet drop at the IC and local residences, plus of course website.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Myddelton House, Bulls Cross, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 9HG<br />Tel: 01992 717 711 Fax: 01992 719 937 </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Web: <a href="http://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">visitleevalley.org.uk</a></span></span></span></div>
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<br />What a week! Firstly, the terrible events in Brussels. I am sure we are all united in expressing sympathy and solidarity with the people of the city but we should also be wary of the corresponding losses of freedom that we could all face as a result. Secondly, things that have been rocking and rolling in Parliament following the Budget and Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation; a bit of a result but judging by Cameron’s all too real impression of Flashman from “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” during Prime Minister’s Question Time in the Common’s yesterday. We still have a long way to go in righting the wrongs of this government! It has also been a busy week locally...<br /><br /><strong>EDIBLE BEGINNING ON MABLEY GREEN</strong> - This week community planting of an edible orchard began on Mabley Green and, unlike the expensive Astro-turf pitch, this orchard will be open to all. It is hoped local young people will be encouraged to explore the orchard and eat more fresh fruit. Read more here: <a href="http://bit.ly/22AmQ3W" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">bit.ly/22AmQ3W</a><br /><br /><strong>MUCKING ABOUT ON THE MARSH</strong> – a geotechnical engineering company (the same firm that worked previously on the Olympic site), was seen on Monday, drilling on Hackney Marshes and putting in gas pipes to test the amount of gas and taking soil samples. This was on the site of the planned Pavilion and likely to be a sign of works progressing quicker than we’d hoped.<br /><br /><strong>HOUSE ON PARARIE</strong> - a spacious three bed house with front and back gardens (next to the travellers permanent site on the east side of the main Hackney Marsh), has been noticed as sold on Rightmove.com for the relatively low (by current Hackney standards) price of under £600,000. There would seem to be plans a foot to remove the house and put in a four storey block of nine flats. This is on Common Land but the house mysteriously does not appear on the 1970 Common Land Registry Map, which shows the whole of the eastern corner of the Main Marsh up to the road and the River Lea. We’ll need to follow up on this story.<br /><br /><strong>PESTICIDE FREE</strong> – SLM and other local organisations attended a first meeting to campaign for a pesticide/herbicide free Hackney – follow <a href="https://twitter.com/PAN_UK" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">@Pan_UK</a> and the hashtags #PesicideFree #Hackney. News just in is that Brighton and Hove have voted to make their borough completely glyphosate free! Read more here: <a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/news/brighton-hove-to-stop-using-glyphosate" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.pan-uk.org/news/<wbr></wbr>brighton-hove-to-stop-using-<wbr></wbr>glyphosate</a> Folk in Waltham Forest are also active in trying to keep the streets chemical free.<br /><br /><strong>CAMPAIGNS OF THE WEEK</strong> – London Fields Cycling Consultation. Hackney LCC are backing Option 1 for the new road traffic management scheme. The consultation closes on Sunday 27 March and details, background documents and the survey can be viewed on the Hackney Council website.<br />Further information from <a href="http://hackney.cc/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://hackney.cc/</a><br /><br />SLM are members of the 150 year old <strong>Open Spaces Society</strong>, which has a current crowdfunding campaign to try to stop Formula E car races happening in Battersea Park. They fear not only the effect on the park but also future commercial large scale events in local parks elsewhere. You can pledge your support here: <a href="http://www.oss.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.oss.org.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>NEVER HAS SO MUCH BE PLANNED TO SERVE SO FEW</strong> - CPRE (London) have launched their report concerning the threats to Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land see<br /><a href="http://www.cprelondon.org.uk/resources/item/2319-the-strongest-protection" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.cprelondon.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>resources/item/2319-the-<wbr></wbr>strongest-protection</a> for the full horrific details of the increase in protected sites being given planning permission - a double in the amount of green space lost in one year. Also the latest bulletin features how there is more planning in London than ever before...<br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – locally, the <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em> has a story about a man found burnt to death on Hackney Marshes; a picture feature entitled “Are these the ugliest buildings in the borough?” and for once a story of developers losing a battle to turn a pub into a block of flats<br /><a href="http://www.guardian-series.org.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>news</a> Stories in the <em>Hackney Gazette</em> this week include: p.2 “Thousands face loss of sunshine and light” Report slams £800m Bishopsgate skyscraper plan; News Focus pp.4-5 on “Plans for dangerous junction slammed in the wake of crashes” at Stamford Hill; “Public Loo in ‘village hall’ bid to raise £70k to revamp toilet block into a community centre on Clapton Common.<br /><a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</a><br /><br />Nationally: <em>The Guardian</em> <strong>Tuesday </strong>p.2 “Carbon releases are at highest since age of dinosaurs, say experts and on p.10 National Section “Brilliant British Butterlies have worst year ever”; on <strong>Wednesday</strong> p.8 National section “Double blight threatens to kill all Europe’s Ash Trees" and on p.23 Financial Section “Hinkley Point Secrecy battle to be resolved by tribunal” and on <strong>Thursday </strong>p.22, National “EDF refuses to set start date for Hinkley Point C". <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>EVENTS </strong><br /><br />Last of the winter workshops from the Tree Musketeers on <strong>Easter Saturday 26 March from 10am-1pm at Hackney Tree Nursery</strong>;<strong> Sunday 27 March </strong>– new tree planting work on Hackney Marshes at 10.30am and go first to the Tree Nursery at 10am to pick up equipment. Saturday 2 April there will be potting-up of baby trees from 10am –1pm again at the Tree Nursery. Further details from <a href="http://www.tree-musketeers.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.tree-musketeers.org.uk</a><br /><br />Also on Saturday <strong>at 11am. over on Mabley Green</strong> there will be a chance to mulch the trees that were put in last week (sadly information came in about this after the digest had gone out) but there will be another opportunity on <strong>April 16</strong> when there will be another Big Dig to put in more fruit trees and bushes.<br />Meet at the Conservancy Road side entrance in Hackney.<br /><br />Next <strong>SLM MEETING WILL BE AT THE PRINCESS OF WALES PUB ON LEA BRIDGE ROAD AT 7.30m ON MONDAY 4 APRIL. </strong>All welcome.<br /><br />Happy Holidays to all – stay well, safe and green!<br /> <div style="padding: 0px;">
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<br /><strong>SMOG-ASBORD SPECIAL</strong> - the BBC’s “Top Gear” was criticized this week for car stunts that were seen to be disrespectful to The Cenotaph. Duh! Cars speed past this every day. What was disrespectful (if you saw the TV footage), was the huge amount of toxic fumes the stunt car was emitting – didn’t come across any mention of that in the press - although Jeremy Corbyn did raise in Parliament the fact that half a million will die if UK fails to meet its air pollution targets. Today’s Guardian 17 March, p.25 has an article about Mexico City banning 1 million cars in smog alert – the country’s first in eleven years <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a> and guess what folks, according to Yahoo News, there is a huge cloud of smoke from France that is set to engulf the UK. Asthmatics have been warned to be aware of high pollution levels in urban areas because of “still weather”. <br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – Could it be coincidence or a sign of “contagious combustion” in reaction to the Budget, that both this week’s <em>Hackney Gazette</em>, p.14 “Car bursts into flames in Old Street” <a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</a> and the <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em> “Car bursts into flames on North Circular” <a href="http://www.guardian-series/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.guardian-series.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/</a> have a similar stories? Other stories I’ve spotted this week in the <em>Waltham Forest Gazette </em>new section are: more protests against “Mini Holland” by traders and residents of the Forest Road area and a story about a change in water level in Herony Pond in Wanstead, which wildlife experts say made it easier for a dog to kill a swan. <em>The Guardian’s</em> G2 section, 17 March, p.2. has a story about the consequences to wildlife of using creatures to mark occasions e.g. using white doves at weddings.<br /><br /><strong>CROSSRAIL II </strong>- well I think it is a toss-up as to what this line will be called. My shortlist includes: Duke of Edinburgh Line (favourite because it will be a “cross” line); Boris Line, Osborne Line or maybe Adonis Line. Shall we start a competition? However, if you want to find out the latest such as the feedback from recent consultation see<a href="http://www.crossrail2.co.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.crossrail2.co.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>OLYMPICOPOLIS </strong>- last week we directed you to this <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/olympicopolis-architects-on-their-billion-vision-for-E20-a3198041.html" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Evening Standard story</a> SLM members have been pouring over this in more detail in an a “Spot the Difference” sort of way and conclude that the details shown in this article are more or less identical to the original plan from 2009. I can give you the answers on the difference (please read upside down because I can’t do it on t’computer) 1. There are two new tower blocks 2. Sustainable green features seemed to have been airbrushed out...<br /><br /><strong>TREE FACT</strong> – SLM are still supporting our local tree<a href="https://twitter.com/tfortysix" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"> @tfortysix</a> and @GreenpeaceUK have tweeted to share some useful research on why planting more trees can reduce flooding.<br /><br /><strong>ISSUES TO RAISE AT NEXT LVRPA WORKSHOP</strong> – a reminder, that this takes place <strong>on Saturday 30th April from 1.00-3.00 p.m. at The Waterworks, Lea Bridge Road.</strong> SLM are gathering various questions to ask the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority such as: “Who is in charge of the habitats included in the boundaries of sites that have been acquired by the new Trust”? “What has happened to Park-watch” and “Can we stop the June mowing”?<br /><br /><strong>RECOMMENDED VIEWING - </strong> if you missed the excellent BBC1 programme on Tuesday night “The Estate We’re In”, I would thoroughly recommend watching it (with a hanky at the ready), on the BBC IPlayer It featured an estate in Barnet but was very similar to recent events on Woodberry Down (another council estate backing on to a reservoir). People sometimes accuse groups like SLM of putting green space ahead of providing homes. We are not against housing but we are against the cynical profiteering of developers, the problems with the planning system and the social cleansing that this programme illustrates so well and why we should all oppose the upcoming Housing Bill. The battles of affordable housing and the availability of green space are pitched with the same opponents.<br /><br /><strong>EVENTS</strong><br /><br />Future date for your diaries, there will be an Abney Park Spring Open Day on Saturday 28 May from 12.00-4.00 p.m.<br /><br />Next <strong>SLM meeting on MONDAY 4 APRIL at the Princess of Wales pub on Lea Bridge Road</strong>. Come along.</div>
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This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes – an open group of people living in the Lea Valley area who come together to try and keep the marshes and other green spaces as places for wildlife to thrive and people to enjoy. To find out more about our work, please see our website <a href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</a><br /><br /><strong>ENCOURAGING NOISES</strong> – not just the mating cries of the local urban foxes in the early hours but a positive response from Eamonn Lawlor, the South Ranger for the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA), to a recent enquiry from SLM about the plight of the hedgehogs and other small mammals in the Lea Valley. More research work is going to be done and volunteer help sought to help gather information and measure how populations are doing. This may take some time but Eamonn would like people to let him and colleagues know of any sightings or information. He says there is some data that can be found on <a href="http://bighedgehogmap.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://bighedgehogmap.org</a> on Millfields Park. There is also some progress on the Underpass Art Project being organised by the RARA group with up-coming workshops that will beautify the underpass near the Waterworks Centre. SLM and the other members of the working party are requesting that more contacts are made with relevant local groups in both Waltham Forest and Hackney before things are fully finalised. We’ll keep you updated.<br /><br /><strong>EAST MARSH</strong> – members of SLM have been putting in a lot of work towards creating a biodiverse habitat area on the site of the car park, getting the gates removed and small electric bollards installed instead. As reported last week, we still have some reservations about maintenance vehicles and soil compaction but in view of the composition of the made ground, we have agreed to see works go ahead, providing that there is regular monitoring to ensure that compaction does not mean the site is unsuccessful, thus paving the way for more car parking or a football stadium.<br /><br /><strong>PETITIONS OF THE WEEK</strong> - “Kick Glyphosate out of Europe!” Perhaps exclamation mark overuse but when you learn <em>that one in three</em> loaves of bread chomped down by U.K. citizens contains Monsanto’s branded name “Round-up”, with all its non-health producing properties, it does make you want to reach for one. To join others to try and stop Monsanto <strong>getting another 15 years of licence to use this product in Europe</strong>, you can join the Global Justice Now Campaign on Twitter or Facebook or contact them on 0207 820 4900. They are also asking people to write to the Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, Liz Truss with your objections. <a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=560813&ea.campaigner.email=yJMalH1RvN2jw39LNepL5qANvnaq0uG%2B&ea.campaigner.id=iCmN9TAARJSZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Take action now to kick glyphosate out of Europe.</a><br /><br />Tell George Osborne where he can put his nuclear plant at Hinkley Point and recommend he looks at greener, safer and surprise, surprise, cheaper options. Make your views known via <a href="https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/no-hinkley" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://secure.greenpeace.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/no-hinkley</a><br /><br /><strong>WALTHAMSTOW WETLANDS</strong> - work is beginning on the site with boardwalks and car parking being constructed first, with work on the engine room building following. The creation of reedbeds, it is hoped, will encourage the bittern and other bird life back to the wetlands. Rachel is the new Community Organiser in place and she can be contacted via<a href="mailto:Walthamstow@wildlondon.or.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Walthamstow@wildlondon.or.uk</a> Tours on local history, wetland wanderings and bat walks are being arranged. Local groups encouraged to request. See the new website<a href="http://www.walthamstow-wetlands.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.walthamstow-wetlands.org.<wbr></wbr>uk</a> for further details.<br /><br /><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – the <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em> has a story regarding a proposal for a new swimming pool, health centre and housing for over 55’s on the Roundhill site of Waltham’s Cross green space. This should leave some recreational and sports space left on the site<br /> <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news</a> I thought this was worth including because it is an example of compromising green space. Over on the Olympic site, latest proposals were featured in this Tuesday’s <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/olympicopolis-architects-on-their-13-billion-vision-for-e20-a3198041.html" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Evening Standard</a> Looks like lots of concrete and “lolly pop” trees by the waterside again folks! Sunday’s <em>Observer</em> 6.3.16 pp.14-15 “Now stree view putting wild Britain on the web” about a project teaming up Walk Unlimited with Google featuring some of the most scenic trails in England and Wales. Catch it while it’s still there ...<br /><br /><strong>EVENTS</strong><br />Our friends at Sustainable Hackney have a new newsletter out featuring news of the Hackney Fixer’s Restart Party on <strong>Saturday March 12</strong>, which includes clothing repair and also an invite to anyone interested in attending their regular monthly steering group meetings – the next one is <strong>on March 30 from 7.00-9.00 p.m. at the Rhodes Estate Community Hall in Hackney.</strong> To find out more go to<br /><a href="http://www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/events/event/list" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>events/event/list</a><br /><br /><strong>Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, </strong>Dalston Lane, just opposite the Overground station, continues to be an important part of the community in Dalston, this Sunday 13th March there is a chance to be part of The Quilt Garden, a project led by textile artist Katherine May in the Pineapple House from <strong>2.00-5.00</strong> p.m. – no need to book and no sewing experience necessary. There is also a walk at <strong>3.00</strong> p.m. around the garden.<a href="http://www.dalston-curvegarden.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://dalstongarden.org/<wbr></wbr>activities/</a><br /><br /><strong>The next SLM meeting at 7.30pm Monday 14 March at the Princess of Wales pub, Lea Bridge Road. New people welcomed</strong>.<br /><br />DON’T FORGET THE CLOSING DATE FOR GETTING AN OBJECTION TO THE PROPOSALS TO BUILD ON THE INDUSTRIAL SITE AT 97 LEA BRIDGE ROAD IS 15 MARCH. APPLICATION NUMBER 153834, OFFICER NICK EAGLE AT WALTHAM FOREST COUNCIL.</div>
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</span>We were sent a lovely email this week from a former marsh campaigner, reminding us that it is important to stress that the Hackney Marshes is not only Metropolitan Open Space but registered common land and that this can make a difference when stating our case to fight of developers. He wrote about plans from the 1980’s to save Millfields (also common land) from being enclosed as a City Farm. Nothing wrong with City Farms but reclaiming industrial space is a better option than fencing off our remaining open spaces. Most of the remaining open space at Mudchute City Farm has just been fenced off and padlocked...<br />
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It seems to be hard for the “powers that be”, to accept that city dwellers truly love their remaining open spaces, that these areas should be treasured and cared for as <em>part</em> of community life and not an <em>adjunct </em>to it. There is a theme about this running effortlessly, through the digest this week:<br />
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<strong>GOOD NEWS AND.. </strong>– SLM was delighted to hear this week from Hackney Parks & Leisure Officers that they have agreed to install electronically-operated stumps, rather than gates on East Marsh, where a wild area is to be planted to replace the car park. This is to allow Council vehicles and mowers on to the site. However, SLM are still concerned that vehicle use will cause damage. There are two schools of thought about whether it is good or bad to disrupt the land/habitat by churning it up – some wild plants do like disrupted soil (e.g., Japanese Knotweed!). Ian Holland, Head of Parks on seeing the photo we put in the digest last week says that the Council tries to vary its routes so that land doesn’t get damaged in certain areas in wet weather conditions. I’m sure he means well in theory, but in practise this does not seem to be the case. Vehicles are not sticking to the circular pathways but overshooting at the edges of the green and what used to be a lovely wooded area now looks like The Somme in 1914-18.<br />
To get an idea of why soil should not get compacted see: <a href="http://www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/tillage/soil-management/soil-management-series/compaction/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.extension.umn.<wbr></wbr>edu/agriculture/tillage/soil-<wbr></wbr>management/soil-management-<wbr></wbr>series/compaction/</a><br />
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<strong>CANTERING ON</strong> – our SLM thorough-bred activist is still on the case of the behaviour of horse riders and whether they are adhering to the routes on the marshes, how the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority distinguishes reports and how it takes action when riders do not obey the rules.<br />
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<strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – we are very pleased that we are ahead of the curve this time in being able to write about a<em> forthcoming</em> editorial meeting of the newly established Waltham Forest Echo <strong>on Tuesday 8 March in the Le Delice Cafe, 114 Hoe Street E17 4OR. </strong>So if you have something you would like to see in this community-minded newspaper, now available on the streets, head along, or if you can’t, the deadline for issue 13 in April is <strong>24 March</strong>. Amongst the stories in the current issue 12 is: “Air pollution fear halts school building for Walthamstow Primary Academy".<br />
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The <em><strong>Waltham Forest Guardian</strong></em> has a story about “Epping Forest councillors have approved controversial plans for a 50 foot 4G phone mast at Chigwell Village Green against local’s wishes (hope those councillors feel truly masterful!). <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian-series.co.uk/news</a><br />
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London/national stories “Build on Green Belt to Solve Crisis”, says a homeless charity Shelter, pp.1 & 4 <strong>Evening Standard</strong> Monday 29 February 2016<a href="http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news</a><wbr></wbr> (personally, think they are a bit misled about this one, as the kind of properties that would go up on green belt won’t be for people in greatest need judging by what else is going on at the moment). <strong>The Times</strong> on Monday 29, p.7 has two stories, one about another culling of 50,000 badgers and another on the “Lesser spotted” hedgehog is a rarer sight than ever <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.thetimes.co.uk/news</a> Badgers may prey on hedgehogs but this obviously doesn’t account for the loss of both species. There's only one species that can tragically impact so many other species and sadly we belong to it!<br />
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We recently covered the “walks and talks” being offered by a PhD. Student, about the memories and experiences of Walthamstow Marsh. Siobahn is now extending into a <strong>6 week</strong> series of workshops (barring Easter), at <strong>The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA</strong>for age 55 “plussers”, involving exploring memories of the area, story- telling, writing and culminating in a performance on the Marsh and exhibitions at The Mill. If you would like to get involved contact via email: <a href="mailto:siobahnOneill.2014@live.rhul.ac.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">siobahnOneill.2014@<wbr></wbr>live.rhul.ac.uk</a> or phone 07989519522<br />
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CPRE London <strong>have changed the location</strong> of the launch of their report on green belt and metropolitan land, this will now take place at <strong>The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, EC1M 6EJ at 9-10.30 on Wednesday 9 March. They have also announced that Zac Goldsmith (Con</strong>), will be joining ex-deputy Mayor Jenny Jones and other party representatives. Free tickets from: <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-belt-and-in-greater-london-the-real-story-tickets-1633033987" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.eventbrite.<wbr></wbr>co.uk/e/green-belt-and-in-<wbr></wbr>greater-london-the-real-story-<wbr></wbr>tickets-1633033987</a><br />
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If, you have been wondering when the next <strong>LVRPA Workshop</strong> would be taking place – fear not, we now have news of one being held on <strong>Saturday 30 April from 13.00-15.00 at the Waterworks Centre</strong>, Lea Bridge Road. Topics will include an update on the Underpass Art Project. Eammon the new southern ranger also brings news of other events such as <strong>David Lindo</strong> (who sometimes can be spotted on BBC “Springwatch” and ”Countryfile”, is giving a talk on birds “<strong>Tales from Concrete Jungles” on Sunday 13 March from 2.00-4.00 p.m. again at the Waterworks.</strong> For details of these and other events go to <a href="http://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/en/whatson/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.visitleevalley.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/en/whatson/</a> There are also more volunteering opportunities on offer including this <strong>Saturday 5 March from 10-15.30 p.m., planting of trees and shrubs by the Ice Rink and a spring clean on 16 March from 10.00-3.00 p.m. again by the Ice Rink on Lea Bridge Road</strong> for details of volunteering go to <a href="http://www.visitleevalley.org/uk/opportunities/open-spaces-and-activities" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.visitleevalley.org/<wbr></wbr>uk/opportunities/open-spaces-<wbr></wbr>and-activities</a><br />
Eammon the man is also on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/etlawlor1" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/etlawlor1</a><br />
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<strong>NEXT SLM MEETING: MONDAY 13 MARCH AT 7.30 P.M. AT THE PRINCESS OF WALES, LEA BRIDGE ROAD E5 You are welcome to join us.</strong><br />
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<strong>SOMETHING IN THE AIR</strong> – as we receive slightly improved news of the fate of the Heathrow 13 sentencing (see below) comes the shocking report of the Royal College of Physicians that there is an annual toll of 40,000 deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution. As Wednesday’s Guardian comment points out: “That’s 8 per cent of all of the half million or so deaths recorded in the Uk every year, a far higher proportion than is usually blamed on alcohol”. The report also highlights how toxic our homes can be with air-freshners and cleaning products having a negative effect on asthma sufferers. The Guardian, p.28. 24 February 2016.<br />
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ZIKA OR..? - After watching the anti-mosquito spraying going on in “Olympic” Brazil and other parts of Central and South America, I started to think about Monsanto and earlier reports and documentaries that were linking ill health and development diseases to pesticides in these areas, so I Googled and found <a href="http://www.sciencealert.com/argentinian-report-says-monsanto-linked-pesticide-is-to-blame-for-microcephaly-outbreak-not-zika" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.sciencealert.com/<wbr></wbr>argentinian-report-says-<wbr></wbr>monsanto-linked-pesticide-is-<wbr></wbr>to-blame-for-microcephaly-<wbr></wbr>outbreak-not-zika</a> It concerns a particular product Pyriproxyfen which is used to combat the very mosquito that is said to be causing the problem and it has got into the water supply. Of course the World Health Organisation and other scientists haven’t proved this, but neither have they categorically proved that there is a Zika connection to this birth defect.<br />
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Ice Rink</strong> – we’ve had puffs of smoke from the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority that they are about to organise their consultation process over Easter. “Over the Easter holidays when a lot of people are on holiday or busy with their families, we hear you say?” “Eggsactly!” So SLM are corresponding on how to improve the situation.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>97 Lea Bridge Road</strong> – we’re not taking the lead on this but we are supporting local residents of the Markhouse Corner and Lea Bridge Residents Association (see their Facebook page <em>Lea Bridge Development Information</em>) and putting in an objection.</li>
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<strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – Nationally, the Healthrow (sorry just spotted a typo there but I’ll leave it in) protesters given suspended sentences The Guardian, p.5 25 February and there is also coverage in the <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em> and the <a href="http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/i-dont-regret-risking-prison-to-defend-the-climate/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><em>Waltham Forest Echo</em></a> on local people involved in the campaign. The WF Guardian also has a story on a conservation group who have gained political support in a bid for a £5m grant to protect the historic parks of Wanstead. Over in Hackney, the Council’s <em>Hackney Today</em>, 22 February, has a feature on new schools plans including the Tiger Way proposals p.2; tackling climate change through ethical pension fund investments, p.13 and on page 24 two London Legacy Development Corporation notices for planning permission, one concerning the Olympic stadium and the other concerning development on Fish Island, which includes the possibility of 4-6 storey buildings. <a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackney.gov.uk</a><br />
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<em>The Hackney Gazette</em>, 25 February, has news of Mabley Green’s transformation p.7 (you can already see earth mounds); “Cyclists targeted by Balaclava gang on Hackney Marshes river path between Hackney Wick and the Princess of Wales pub, p.9, more coverage of Heathrow protesters from Hackney p.18 <a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</a> <br />
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Also the Letter of the Week on p.14 comes from Kathryn Johnson of the <strong>Hackney People’s Assembly</strong> on a town hall protest against the cuts and a “say no to Trident” march (see events below) <a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/letters" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>letters</a><br />
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<strong>NEW FORAGING FILM</strong> - SLM has received the regular monthly update from Forage London with news of a new film <a href="http://foragelondon.co.uk/a-film-about-foraging-in-february" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://foragelondon.co.uk/a-<wbr></wbr>film-about-foraging-in-<wbr></wbr>february</a> There are also some upcoming events on the site.<br />
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Join Hackney People’s Assembly at 6.00 p.m. on 2 March outside Hackney Town Hall to protest about the Government’s cuts and the impact on local services (this could total some £188m million by 2020).<br />
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<strong>Divest Waltham Forest Film Screening- THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING</strong><br />
On Thursday 10th March, join FoE for a FREE screening of 'THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING' as part of the Divest Waltham Forest campaign. Based on the critically acclaimed non-fiction best-seller by the award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein, 'THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING' is a documentary film shot in 9 countries over the course of 4 years, presenting seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of both fossil fuel extraction and the climate crisis it is driving 8-10pm, Thur 10th March, upstairs at The Rose and Crown pub on Hoe Street, Walthamstow. More details <a href="http://walthamforestfoe.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4648e90c646d851f2355268a2&id=5848120925&e=1542a1382f" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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On p.3 of <strong>Hackney Today</strong> Also on the subject of Housing, don’t forget <strong>the March from Lincoln’s Inn Fields on Sunday 13 March about the Housing Bill. </strong>Whatever your housing situation, no-one is safe from our Government’s grabbing mitts.<br />
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<strong>Hedge Herbs</strong> are collaborating with <strong>Grow Heathrow’s 6 Birthday Party on Saturday 5 March and Sunday 6th March at Vinenes Close, Sipson, West Dray UB7 OJM with the Wild Brew Crew</strong> (herbal collective) and there are six weeks of walks ahead starting on Walthamstow Marsh. Fees are £40/25 concessions for all six walks from March to September or £7.50/£5 payable on the day. For full and further details contact Rasheeqa.<br />
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Next <strong>SLM meeting is on Monday 29 February at 7.30pm, Princess of Wales pub on Lea Bridge Road</strong> – new people always welcome.<br />
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<strong>BREAKING NEWS</strong> – Mini-Holland, Lea Bridge Road - an intrepid SLM member reports more work putting down paths (apparently not in the consultation document), evidence of LBWF’s knowledge of contamination, posters and graffiti on the new bridge ....<br />
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<strong>AND FINALLY THE P.M.’S ADVICE/BILE OF THE WEEK... </strong>Keep your shirts tucked in, wear a proper suit and adjust your tie..</div>
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What a week – internationally, nationally and locally. What thread draws together the Parliamentary proceedings that have taken the U.K. further into an un-winnable war, to news from Greenpeace that the Government have decided that the anti-fracking decision agreed earlier by Lancashire County Council is not valid to some of the things happening on our own doorstep is clearly ill-advised short term thinking which has long term consequences.</div>
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<strong>IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS</strong> - a busy time for most people – what better time to organise a couple of meetings about the future of the Lea Valley Ice Rink? SLM received the news this week that drop-in sessions are being organised to discuss whether a new ice rink should be: (1) refurbished on the current site (2) Built as a new venue on the current site (that means bigger!) or (3) build a new centre elsewhere in the Lea Valley. SLM have emailed Shaun Dawson, LVRPA’s CEO to complain about the timing of the following drop in sessions but do go if you can to:</div>
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Wednesday 9 December from 17.00-18.00 on Wednesday 9 December at the Ice Rink or Saturday 12 December at the Waterworks Centre (across and up the Lea Bridge Road from the Ice Rink) from 10.30 to 11.30. You are asked to confirm your attendance by emailing <a href="mailto:pandrews@leevalleypark.org.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pandrews@leevalleypark.org.uk</span></a> and perhaps make a comment about the timing!</div>
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<strong>EAST MARSH GATE </strong>– correspondence continues about the bridges and the gates at East Marsh. London Borough of Hackney say that the bridge between East Marsh and the Main Marsh has a 2 tonne weight limit, so vehicles needed for grass cutting cannot use this route and therefore the gates at Ruckholt Road (which they may consider modifying) are necessary. SLM are arguing that the current gates should have had Planning Inspectorate consent and should be removed. We also question why such large motorised vehicles have to be used. Witness the amount of grass being carved up by wheel tyres across the marshes...</div>
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<strong>MINI-HOLLAND IMPACTS</strong> – (1) SLM has been informed that the steps, which appear to go nowhere on the new bridge by the underpass on Lea Bridge Road (near the Riding Stables) are inspection steps for access for future repair work and are part of the bridge’s support structure. (2) Waltham Forest Council have put out a call for architects for a £500,000 scheme for a cycle hub (cafe, repairs, storage centre) to make-over the Lammas Cottage in Leyton “Jubilee” Park. This is currently occupied by Eton Manor Athletics Club and the plan is for future sharing of the building and to give back up to the M-H.S. see <a href="http://road.cc/content/news/172113-architects-compete-build-new-%c2%A3500000-cycle-hub-Leyton" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://road.cc/content/news/<wbr></wbr>172113-architects-compete-<wbr></wbr>build-new-%c2%A3500000-cycle-<wbr></wbr>hub-Leyton</a></div>
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<strong>PETITION OF THE WEEK</strong> – Friends of Millfields Lane (in Hampstead) have put out a call for people to sign their petition to Camden Council concerning a large property development, which they believe will seriously hamper access to the Lane and have a damaging effect on the drainage leading to the Bird Sanctuary Pond. The third attempt to consider the application will be on 17 December. See</div>
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<a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/protect-millfield-lane-from-damage-and-closure" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://you.38degrees.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>petitions/protect-millfield-<wbr></wbr>lane-from-damage-and-closure</a></div>
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<strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – news from the Waltham Forest Guardian is that Waltham Forest will be seeing the fastest rising property prices in the next five years.</div>
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“Hackney Today” 30 November 2015, p3 has two stories of interest: (1) another meeting has been arranged to discuss the London Fields filtering scheme,( as the previous venue wasn’t big enough), on 14 December at 7.00 p.m. at Hackney Town Hall Assembly Rooms. Those unable to attend can read frequently asked questions at:<a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/traffic-management.htm#:London-Fields" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackney.gov.uk/traffic-<wbr></wbr>management.htm#:London-Fields</a> and further questions can be e-mailed to: <a href="mailto:andy.cunningham@hackney.gov.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">andy.cunningham@hackney.gov.uk</a> Also, there is an update on plans to update and restore the famous Haggerson Baths to view the survey results go to:</div>
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<a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/Report-on-Haggerson-Baths-November-Questionnaire.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/<wbr></wbr>Documents/Report-on-Haggerson-<wbr></wbr>Baths-November-Questionnaire.<wbr></wbr>pdf</a></div>
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Thursday’s Evening Standard <a href="http://www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.eveningstandard.co.uk/news</a> has on page 4, a story about another planned tower block set to loom over Finisbury Square in the City; p.2. Boris waffles on about Climate Change in Paris.. and page 14 Nick Clegg (ex-Deputy P.M.), opines that “All logic points to Gatwick in the great expansion debate..”</div>
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Thursday’s Guardian page 14, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/national" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/national</a> has a story about the decline by more than a quarter of the UK’s birds, including much loved species.</div>
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<strong>EVENTS </strong>- A Plant Survey will be taking place in Wick Wood on Saturday 5 December – meet 10.30am at the Marshes Centre a.k.a. the Rusty Box. This is part of an ongoing project to produce a Flora for Hackney. For further information or to take part in future surveys contact <a href="mailto:Annie.chipchase@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">annie.chipchase@gmail.com</a></div>
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Not the time and space to mention a lot of the seasonal events going on this week but SLM’s new calendar will be on sale on my stall Trashalamode this weekend at the Sutton House Christmas Fair and is also being stocked soon in other local shops, including Pages of Hackney.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This week, spring has been in the air and anyone that has fancied a walk around Hackney Marshes would soon be aware of the green open spaces being marred by tyre tracks extending from the path edges and in places across the green.<br /><br />SLM has been in touch with Hackney Parks Dept. concerning increasing private car access and the deep tracks left by Council vehicles. One of our correspondents received a reply to his complaint about lack of bollards on the path at the Hackney Marshes Centre leading to the marsh. Tyre tracks are clearly swerving around on the grass to avoid the bollard in the middle of the path. His complaint also included seeing an assumed private car driving around the perimeter path. This, he was told was an employee going about his job in a private car.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;"><img align="none" class="CToWUd a6T" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEizl3P3pLXlu4tUl9t4K40gC1aaKHtcP3sFJwOPf-VYX7Bo2NvBsK3McCMpNI3yXTOq5jI2vJk8tDP5jVsgnJtRpezuG7BpoxJ0BYoFNHCwilWTODFnByFs4tCU_00PiPx4PkdhuPRytfsJ5jB_oOmKNqB0cTvAxT8DuDiMWiSB1NC36HqvGZuTkJxCv2f0_Tc9GWXJM_W3D4Qpf1Gz-7XRCM4pgA4z_w=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; min-height: 375px; outline: 0px; width: 500px;" tabindex="0" width="500" /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">A second email with photos on similar issues address to the Parks Department was r</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">eturned by Hackney’s email system, because it was too big. As copies were sent to others who received it, it begs the question of how does the Council’s system cope with developers sending in planned document? We are however, pleased to report that metal folding bollards have been placed on the path near Cow Bridge.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: teal;">ICE RINK</span> – SLM will continue to fight against significant development and no development on MoL and will be pursuing with the Lea Valley Regional Parks Authority whether it is possible to consider land which isn’t MoL. We are also pushing for the LVRPA to hold a proper consultation and ensure that local people are aware of what’s involved by following up with our contacts and kindred organisations.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: brown;">NORTHERN AREA OLYMPIC FRINGE AREA ACTION PLAN</span> – SLM are following up on the validity of this plan versus current proposed developments.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: navy;">LEA BRIDGE ROAD DEVELOPMENTS</span> – 97 Lea Bridge Road is part of the current industrial area near Arygll Way. 300 are planned including 3 x 18 storey tower blocks that will be visable from Leyton Marsh. Height and lift pollution are key issues and there is a Facebook Group that is actively discussing it. Plans can be viewed on<a href="http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.walthamforest.gov.uk</span></a> and the Planning Application number is 158384. The viewpoint of an active local resident is available on our blog: <a href="http://www.saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.<wbr></wbr>com</a></span></li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: saddlebrown;">Thames Water Site</span> – SLM is writing Freedom of Information requests to the Department of Education and the London Borough of Waltham Forest to find out how the proposed Free School was given a green light...</span></li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: purple;">CRICKET SCREENS</span> – SLM representatives have been in discussion with a representative from Stoke Newington Cricket Club regarding the storage of large cricket screens. We will support the Cricket Club in getting the screens stored by Hackney Council in their depot when not in use, because the marsh should be open and accessible to all. This is because the design of the Cricket Pavilion has not included appropriate space in the building to house them and the ECB, who contributed funding to the project are saying that having the screens is a requirement for league matches. It is a great pity we didn’t know this at the time of the PINS Inquiry last year. We predict that there will be further problems....</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: darkslategrey;">WALKING INTO HISTORY</span> – SLM has received a request from a Waltham Forest local resident and PhD student from the Royal Holloway University and funded by a scholarship and an Arts Grant from LBWF, who is looking for volunteers to take a walk with her across Walthamstow Marshes to share their thoughts, memories and knowledge of the Marsh. With respondent’s permission this will form part of her research and also be placed in the Archives of Vestry House in Walthamstow. Anyone interested should contact <a href="mailto:Siobhan.ONeill.2014@live.rhul.ac.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">Siobhan.ONeill.2014@live.rhul.<wbr></wbr>ac.uk</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">IN THE PRESS – In <strong>Waltham Forest</strong> the recently established Waltham Forest Echo has its 11</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> issue out on line and is also being distributed around the borough for the first time. Articles include a update on Walthamstow Wetlands plans. We have missed the timing for the monthly editorial meeting when members of the public can pitch ideas to the editorial staff but the next deadline for copy is 18 February. <a href="http://www.walthamforestecho.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Echo-11.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.walthamforestecho.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>wp-content/uploads/2014/07/<wbr></wbr>Echo-11.pdf</span></a><br /><br />The W.F. Guardian has a report about the proposed Labour candidate for the London Assembly requesting the Civil Aviation Authority carry out a noise impact assessment for the changed flight path from London City Airport. The new path is over Leyton, Leytonstone and Walthamstow. <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.guardian-series.co.uk/news</span></a><br /><br />Over in <strong>Hackney,</strong> <em>Private Eye</em> has a story on p.21 about the condition of St. Mary’s Lodge in Lordship Road Hackney. It was a handsome villa built around 1843 but was withdrawn from Auction and sold at lower than the market value and has since been resold. In 2014, a petition to Save St Mary’s Lodge attracted the second highest number of signatures, alas to no avail.. <a href="http://www.private-eye.co.uk/nooksandcorners" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.private-eye.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>nooksandcorners</span></a><br /><br />The <em>Hackney Gazette</em> has a front page story: “Fury over scheme for killer junction” about the proposed Transport for London revamp for a deadly junction replacing traffic lights with a roundabout. This follows the death of an elderly woman in 2011 and other accidents at the junction in Lower Clapton Road and Urswick Road. (This is also the area near close to a planned Free School). <a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">There is a Lea Bridge Ward Councillors meeting with the public at <strong>6.30pm in Leyton Library on Wednesday 10 February </strong>which will include discussions on latest planning issues and the following day, <strong>11 February at 7pm in the St. John’s Ambulance Hall in Mildenhall Road, Hackney E5</strong>, in Hackney’s Lea Bridge Ward, there will be a forum discussing housing and rental issues and an update on policing by local officers. Under A.O.B. a local SLM member will also talk about the effects of Waltham Forest’s plans could affect Hackney residents sharing the borough boundary.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: firebrick;">A PLANE STUPID JUDGEMENT</span> - a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/25/heathrow-climate-protesters-found-guilty-of-aggravated-trespass" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">national</a> news story this week with <a href="http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/richmondnews/14228736.Plane_Stupid_activists_who_invaded_Heathrow_runway_face__immediate__prison_sentence/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">local</a> implications - the 'Heathrow 13' who took direct action against climate change at Heathrow airport last July in opposition to the recommended expansion of Heathrow have been found guilty of aggravated </span>trespass. The<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> judge, whilst recognising their 'passion' and 'good character' proceeded to recommend immediate custodial sentences, which means each of the defendants face the prospect of three months in jail. The Plane Stupid campaign are organising support, including donations to help cover costs. </span>The<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> group would like as many people as possible to attend </span>Willesden Magistrates Court on 24th February when <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the sentences will be announced, for more information see: </span><a href="http://www.planestupid.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>planestupid.com</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: purple;">HYPER LOCAL</span> – where to begin? SLM organised a meeting with the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority on Monday to discuss the four local sites that will be assessed for the possible new Ice Rink. We pressed heavily for early and extensive public consultation and for maximum preservation of the green space. Interestingly, the LVRPA were vague about the London Borough of Waltham Forest’s future planning proposals and had only just found out about the Free School. More information can be found our old blog, where we will shortly be adding the maps of the 4 proposed sites, all on protected Metropolitan Open Land: <a href="http://www.saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.saveleytonmarsh.wordpress.<wbr></wbr>com</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: green;">IT'S JUST MORE CRICKET</span>– on-going discussion and a meeting planned with Stoke Newington Cricket Club to talk about the escalating problems of a cricket pavilion so well designed it can’t house essential club equipment such as sight screens and pitch covers, deemed essential to club cricket yet not mentioned at the 4 day public inquiry or included in any of the planning documents.</div>
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We have also heard that a petition was taken to Hackney Council last week concerning creating a “proper” football ground (e.g. with a stadium, seating and car parking), somewhere in Hackney – the marshes and Millfields were mentioned. SLM, who are still in discussion with the Council about keeping East Marsh and other green areas as vehicle free as possible, will keep abreast of developments.<br /><br /><strong>IN THE MEDIA</strong></div>
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Winterwatch is back on BBC2 – this is great news for our cat (Assistant Editor), who watched the whole of it on Wednesday night, even the boring human bits...</div>
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The latest <em>Hackney Today</em> 25 January , p.3 “Have Your say on Bishopsgate Goods Yard proposals”, extended for the next 21 days email your concerns to<a href="mailto:birshopsgate@london.gov.uk/bgy" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">bishopsgate@london.gov.uk/bgy</a> <br /><br />“Calls for a re-think on Crossrail 2”, p.13 on the Dalston area to view the proposals go to<a href="http://www.bit.ly/crossrail_vents" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.bit.ly/crossrail_vents</a> <br /><br />“Grow local and shop local”, details of the latest Growing Communities project, which is looking for trainees to learn how to grow organically. Applications close on 8 February, for more information visit <a href="http://www.growingcommunities.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.growingcommunities.org</a> <br /><br />“Follow the porter’s path” on p.25, pictures and archive information on a path that use to run diagonally across from Walthamstow to Shoreditch via Clapton’s Millfields.</div>
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In Waltham Forest, the <em>Waltham Forest Guardian</em> has another update on the re-opening of the Lea Bridge Station set for <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/10199669.WELCOME_BACK_LEA_BRIDGE_ROAD_STATION/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">early Spring</a>.</div>
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Last Saturday’s <em>Times</em> of 23 January features Melissa Harrison’s Nature Notebook: “Starlings go hungry as bugs are wiped out” and more positively “Return of the native” (better news about Ash dieback disease and “Daffy weather”, about this winter’s challenging temperatures).<br /><br /><strong>PETITION OF THE WEEK</strong><br /><br />Please sign Friends of the Earth's petition to make Waltham Forest 'fossil free' <a href="https://campaigns.gofossilfree.org/petitions/divest-waltham-forest" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://campaigns.<wbr></wbr>gofossilfree.org/petitions/<wbr></wbr>divest-waltham-forest</a><br /><br /><strong>EVENTS </strong></div>
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<br /><strong>Saturday 13 February</strong> – an event at Potters Field Park (next to the City Hall), with activities and guests including the writer Will Self, the aim is to draw attention to the loss of public open space to private control (e.g. this land is not your land). It's called 'Space Probe Alpha' and you can join the event on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1191694480841480/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">Facebook</a></div>
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<br /><strong>Monday 1 February</strong>, 7.30pm at the Princess of Wales pub, Lea Bridge Road, Hackney, the next SLM meeting. Lots to discuss concerning threats to the marshes and local green space – so leave the sofa and come and get involved!</div>
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<span style="color: mediumblue;">SLM Weekly Digest</span></h1>
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<span style="color: green;">Keep Our Marshes Open and Green!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">This is the Weekly Digest of Save Lea Marshes up and running again in 2016. We can only wish you a personal “Happy New Year” as the news is generally pretty shit! Christmas has not been a quiet time without incident - internationally, nationally and locally much has been troubling. Locally – a lot going on stealthily as you’ll see below. Some good news though – the SLM calendar for 2016 is sold out and has boosted our funds for future action. We are working on other new products. Do keep an eye on our website <a href="http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.saveleamarshes.org.uk</span></a> and also get in touch and alert us to anything about the Lea Valley that concerns you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong>MINI-HOLLAND </strong> - beginning to think of this as almost a swearing oath. Take a walk along the Lea Bridge Road from the bridge at Hackney towards the Ice Rink, the Riding stables and beyond and witness the devastation so far. The Monty Python-style Lumberjack squad have been out felling trees (not all of them look old and diseased), and putting down hard surface in preparation for? Well, if you want to see the full extent of what is planned go to 'enjoy Waltham Forest'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/LBR-A-consultation.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">http://www.enjoywalthamforest.<wbr></wbr>co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/<wbr></wbr>03/LBR-A-consultation.pdf</a></u><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong>EAST MARSH – </strong>correspondence has been flying back and forth about the design and height of the gates at East Marsh between Hackney Parks, SLM and other local groups. We’re currently not finished 'debating the gate', so will update everyone next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong>CONSULTATIONS -</strong> a word that has becoming more<em> chilling</em> than originally intended, for lo what happens when it is uttered? Usually, the opposite of the outcome you envisage. Firstly, Hackney is consulting on the future of Hackney Road Recreation Ground – should it have a new name? See</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://consultations.hackney.gov.uk/parks-greenspaces/hackney-road-recreation-ground-1/consult" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://consultations.hackney.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk/parks-greenspaces/<wbr></wbr>hackney-road-recreation-<wbr></wbr>ground-1/consult</a></u><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"> covered in both the Hackney Gazette and the Hackney Today (p13) in more detail and have your say on changing the fees on local markets (including Ridley Road – of which, more later..) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://consultations.hackney.gov.uk/parking-services/fees-and-charges" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">https://consultations.hackney.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk/parking-services/fees-<wbr></wbr>and-charges</a></u><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">More drop in sessions on the London Fields traffic calming measures see <a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/traffic-management.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.hackney.gov.uk/traffic-<wbr></wbr>management.htm</span></a> plus coverage on page 2 of the Hackney Today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong>IN THE PRESS</strong> – first up and seemingly out of the blue – the Waltham Forest Guardian carries the story that a new secondary academy has been granted permission to have first temporary and then permanent space on currently Metropolitan Open Land opposite the Lee Valley Ice Rink, from September 2017 which most people thought locally would go to housing. It is anticipated that some 1,400 pupils from Waltham Forest and surrounding boroughs will go to this school provided by the Lion Academy Trust. (Another example of L.B.W.F. making decisions which affect edge of Hackney?) see</span></div>
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<u style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/14205538.Site_secured_for_news_secondary-school_which_will_offer_" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.guardian-series.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/news/wfnews/14205538.Site_<wbr></wbr>secured_for_news_secondary-<wbr></wbr>school_which_will_offer_</span></a></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Also in the W.F. Guardian a story about the chair of the Epping Society being concerned about green belt land being at risk of future development <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk./news/wfnews" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">http://www.guardian-series.co.<wbr></wbr>uk./news/wfnews</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Back in Hackney (or should we now refer to it as the edges of Waltham Forest?) we have the struggle to prevent the Grade II listed Old School House being turned into two flats by developers p.2 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank">www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news</a></u><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> and in the Hackney Citizen p.7 “Dalston’s ‘cultural quarter’ not up for sale, insists Town Hall, p.p7-8 <a href="http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/news" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/news</span></a> - two features about the impact that Crossrail 2 plans could have on Ridley Road Market, The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, the Peace Mural and well, most things which make Dalston attractive.. The Citizen also has ‘Continuous cruiser’ wins battle against eviction from canal home, p.4 also on the same page ‘Decision on Fish Island luxury flats delayed. Plus in the Hackney Today, p.p.8-9 a bit of light relief from Hackney after dark there is a double page spread of pictures (including of the marshes), and information about a new book by photographer David George, published by Hoxton Mini Press, price £12.95 for more info or to order the book go to <a href="http://www.hoxtonminipress.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.hoxtonminipress.com/</span></a> Am surprised he found it so dark given the amount of light from surrounding buildings and streets these days ..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong>EVENTS – Apple Yowling is back at the Ferry Boat Inn, N17 NG this Sunday 17 January from 5.00 – 7.00 p.m</strong>. plus. Come Wassailing with torch, something to make a noise with, and your voice to help carry on the tradition and also to remember Katy Andrews who died last year but will always be with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">South Ranger for Walthamstow Marshes, Eammon, has emailed us with details of the first Community Haystacks A.G.M., which will be held on 23 January from 2.00-3.00 p.m. at the Waterworks Centre, Lammas Road E10 7NL – this will also be to prepare for the annual Community Haystacks event with provisional dates for the 30th and 31</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> of July. Using the old methods is much better for the environment so to be encouraged. Contact Kathrin on 0794169655 or<a href="mailto:kathrin@myvillages.org.uk" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">kathrin@myvillages.org.uk</span></a> to say you will be coming and get more information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Council for the Protection of Rural England, London, with Planning Aid, the London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies are organising a Hustings event – “Planning for London Control or Chaos?”, with the London Mayoral hopefuls on 22 March from 6.00-8.00 p.m. at 70 Cowcross Street, near Farringdon Station. To book a free place see<a href="http://www.cpre.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.cpre.org.uk</span></a> and also view the latest January newsletter, well worth reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Tree Musketeers have details of their January programme on <a href="http://sustainablehackney.org./events" style="color: #6dc6dd;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">http://sustainablehackney.org.<wbr></wbr>/events</span></a> - one this Saturday 16 January at Hackney Downs – meet on the old Bowling Green with a fruit tree pruning workshop and pruning. Also see Hackney Citizen p. 29 with an article on Hedgehogs and some comments from Russell Miller about their scarcity in Hackney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Next SLM meeting (last week’s was cancelled due to ill-health and other commitments), Monday 18 January, at The Princess of Wales pub on Lea Bridge Road, at 7.30. All welcome.</span></div>
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