The excellent panel for The Line We Crossed 19 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 21:30 (Doors open 18:30) St Paul's Church Hall, 182 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16 7UE

London's #Parks, #PlayingFields and #GreenBelt are coming under increasing threat. Today, we've launched a new free guide on how to set up and run a successful grassroots campaign to protect #GreenSpaces. www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/new-gui... @saveleamarshes.bsky.social @wimbledonpark.bsky.social

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join us and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent. @friends_earth 👇 foe.uk/ksojs

Films for Action: The Line We Crossed. From the frontlines of climate resistance it traces the quiet unravelling of our protest rights. At St Paul's Church West Hackney 182 Stoke Newington Road, Fri, 19 Sep 2025, Doors open 6:30, Film show and discussion 7 - 9.30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-for-...

🍃 Come and see the proposed #EastLondonWaterworksPark and hear the latest findings from our #ListeningProject at 'Community Voices' as part of the #MayorsCommunityWeekend, 13–14 Sept! 🎊 🎟️: elwp.info/CommunityVoices @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk @london.gov.uk @debbieweekesb.bsky.social

🧵Our countryside is being ruined. Nothing works. Our rivers are poisoned. Our green spaces are vanishing. Our wildlife is being wiped out - species by species, tree by tree. All sacrificed to greed, corruption, and neglect.

The proposal for a secure facility for children at the former Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road has resurfaced. We support the plan for the site to become @elwaterworks.bsky.social and will oppose the forthcoming planning application for this Metropolitan Open Land #Waterworks #LeeValley

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Campaigners in #Enfield have launched a fresh legal challenge to the Council’s decision to construct a private sports facility on top of protected #GreenBelt land in #WhitewebbsPark. See below for more details and links to the CrowdJustice fundraiser👇 www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/whitewe...

Save Whitewebbs Park! This beautiful park in Enfield is under threat from the bullldozers. Donate to help fund the Judicial Review of Enfield Council's decision to let Spurs take over this public park: www.crowdjustice.com/case/savewhi...

Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September. @greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

Tell Google to look elsewhere! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Latest pollution readings on the Old River Lea. Improvement in all indicators, except nitrogen at the Flood Relief Channel @ldnwaterkeeper.bsky.social @thames21.bsky.social

Worrying to see that people have been using barbeques at the Waterworks Meadow again.

Tell Brazil's President Lula: Stop the bill that would be the end of the Amazon! action.eko.org/a/lula-rejec...

In the absence of the council's sustainability event, @sustainhackney.bsky.social put on their own! So many great organisations in the borough from @saveleamarshes.bsky.social to @hackneylcc.bsky.social , mentoring young people in sustainable fashion to creating insect corridors & much more ⭐️

Sustainable Hackney have two great events coming up! 🎬 Film night on Friday 18th July, screening of The Last Tourist ☀️ Sustainable Sunday on the 20th July, join for workshops, games, and refreshments Looking forward to seeing you there 💚 @sustainhackney.bsky.social

All the groups with stalls/events at our Sustainable Sunday, this sunday 2-5pm at St Paul's Church, 184 Stoke Newington Road, N16. See you there!

Shocking decision. It's clear none of London's parks and green spaces are safe now.

Friday, July 18 Film for Action: The Last Tourist Travel is at a tipping point. Friday, July 18 · 7 - 9:30pm Doors open 6.30pm St Paul's Church, 182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE Panel discussion Free event, donations welcome Tickets on door or Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-for-a...

We promise you an informative but fun and friendly afternoon - chat to us and your fellow Hackney residents and visitors before you return home feeling inspired and optimistic about the future of Hackney we can create together. www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/event-detail...

SaveLeaMarshes will be at Sustainable Hackney's Sustainable Sunday! See you there!

Was not impressed by the calibre of review/debate at committee stage for that approval. Accepted as ‘listening to the community’ when all they’d done is sacrifice some floors from outline stage that they knew would never be built in the first place. ‘Compromise’ on a number they wanted.

In the haphazard permitting system for pumping water, some users don't have to report their water use, while those taking under 20m³ a day – enough for 140 people, or roughly two thirds of a large tanker – don't need a licence at all. Our new article: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have written to @london.gov.uk to ask him not to change course on protecting London's MOL and Green Belt during a #climate and #natureemergency: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/06/21/o...

Research by Aviva Insurance highlights that the government's planned house building targets are likely to create 100,000 more properties that are uninsurable due to flood risk. 5/10 www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

BBC File on 4 uncovered that 205,000 properties were built between 2013 - 2022 in Flood Zone 3 - the areas with the absolute highest risk of flooding. Building in these zones is dooming people to endure flooding. 4/10 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Tell Brazil's Energy ministry hands off Fernando de Noronha! action.eko.org/a/tell-brazi...

Who surveyed the land before it became the Olympic Park? Before Bully Fen Nature Reserve was bulldozed, the rabbits gassed, the Greater Crested Newts translocated, the Old River Lea impounded by Prescott Lock and the Channelsea River turned into a sewer. www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/06/04/e...

Amazingly this is already starting to regenerate, with green shoots emerging from the ground. Hopefully not too many ground-nesting birds were lost during the fires 🙏

Hackney is ridiculously pretty and frankly bucolic in places. Taken today #saveleamarshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social #eastcoastkin (Don’t zoom in too much on the heron..she’s a tad mobile and taken a mobile so blurry..)

Good! Labour MPs are planning to rebel over the planning and infrastructure bill after constituents raised concern that it threatens protected habitats and wildlife. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Please come and visit us for London Open Gardens 7/8 June - 11/4pm and explore this green gem in the Square Mile.

🚫🎪 When is a park not a park? London’s green spaces are being fenced off for pricey commercial events, shutting out communities & harming nature. 🌿 Parks are for people, not profit. 📖 Read more: www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/clear-l... #ProtectOurParks #CPRELondon #UrbanNature #ParksForPeople

Beating the Bounds along the Old River Lea @saveleamarshes.bsky.social event as part of the Love Lea Festival🌳 A medieval tradition still observed throughout England & Wales, willow sticks decorated with flowers & ribbons are used to hit important boundary markers. @nationalparkcity.bsky.social

Solidarity with those who resist the new enclosures! Austerity is the reason the people are being fenced out of their own parks across the capital, for private £££, whilst trees are damaged & land is trashed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Want to volunteer with us? Dates on renatureldn.uk or follow us on Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/renature-l...

Spent today 'beating the bounds' with @saveleamarshes.bsky.social, a centuries-old tradition marking the Middlesex-Essex boundary along the River Lea. It highlighted both conservation and development projects along its banks, reflecting our dynamic relationship with urban natural heritage.

WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …

Record number of river-blocking barriers removed in Europe, report says - Hundreds of dams, weirs, culverts and sluices dismantled in 2024 to help waterways resume natural course www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The #LoveLeaFestival kicked off on Saturday at Leaside, next to the River Lee Navigation! We joined @elwaterworks.bsky.social for a stall 😀 We hope to see you on Sunday for our SLM #BeatingTheBounds walk along the Old #RiverLea www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/03/24/b...

“One the reasons why I tabled that amendment is because some habitats are irreplaceable, and it’s important that we protect those from damage, because you can’t just give developers the right pay cash to trash nature like that.” www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Cash2Trash #PIBill #Nature

Join Ian Phillips of @renatureldn.bsky.social and urban ecologist Akash Barua. Alongside short films about the stunning wildlife that can be found across London we will hear about ecosystem restoration and how some species are returning to the city. www.tickettailor.com/events/earth...

I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

The farmhouse at Ive Farm, Leyton, c.1910. Ive Farm was located on the south-west side of Church Road. Believed built in the late 17th century, the farmhouse was greatly altered over time. It remained until housing development in late 1940s when Ive Farm Close was built on the site. #ImageoftheMonth

May there also be justice for the #WhitewebbsOak! A tree far exceeding the beautiful Sycamore Gap in ecological value and by hundreds of years in age. #SycamoreGap #AncientTrees

So there we have it: 'The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building.' www.theguardian.com/environment/... #PIBill #Nature #Planning

The #LoveLea Festival is coming soon! From riverside walks and clean-ups to workshops, paddles and picnics – local groups are hosting a series of events from May 17th to June 8th to celebrate and protect the #RiverLea. 👉 Full line-up here: www.leaside.org.uk/love-lea-festival

🦇The Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) is making its way through Parliament - and we urgently need your help to protect bats and other wildlife. Please ask your MP to help protect wildlife in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. More information here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...