Gr8 to be out on the @wflabour.bsky.social #Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep 🌹this AM in the glorious spring sunshine☀️! Lots of really positive 💬! Thanx to @miriammirwitch.bsky.social Cllr Rhiannon Elgin & Georgina for helping. @lgalabour.bsky.social

It was lovely to be out on the #LabourDoorstep this morning in sunny Leytonstone for the fab Cllrs @labourstone.bsky.social, Jenny Gray and Marie Pye. Great to speak to residents about local issues and @wflabour.bsky.social! #VoteLabour

Rain🌧️ did not stop play out on the @wflabour.bsky.social #Leytonstone #LabourDoorstep🌹 this AM. Lots of gr8 chat💬 with local residents! @calvinbailey.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @miriammirwitch.bsky.social @shumonalirahman.bsky.social @kira.social

Loving our new accessible pavements replacing parking, daylighting with cycle parking and informal play/seating. Fantastic to see thanks to @labourstone.bsky.social @kira.social @shumonalirahman.bsky.social @wfcouncil

#BlisterPack #Recycling♻️ returns today in #Leytonstone #Walthamstow #Chingford Libraries, as Waltham Forest Council leads & pioneers in identifying #Recycling♻️ solutions for ‘difficult’ packaging. @lgalabour.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @miriammirwitch.bsky.social

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. Robert Burns

Further confirmation that traffic reduction measures don’t affect high street spending. #PedestrianPound www.centreforcities.org/blog/ulez-ex...

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It's partly because of programmes such as RIS2 that we have to spend money retrofitting local streets to try to mitigate the impacts of climate change; but it is something we have to do now anyway.

#BringIt the #NLWA #ReusableRevolution Campaign has been launched in #WalthamForest! Thanx to the support of local businesses! @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social @miriammirwitch.bsky.social @kira.social @lgalabour.bsky.social

Works on the 1st section of the #WalthamForest #Flood Resilience Scheme incl. #RainGardens in #WadleyRdE11 is nearing completion. Here's some pics. charting progress. Resurfacing early next wk on this section & works begin on 2nd half later next wk. @wflabour.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social

So despite all the fuss and noise, new data shows that the ULEZ expansion hasn’t hurt high street spending - it’s just helped clean up London’s air 💚 www.centreforcities.org/blog/ulez-ex...

It was 'Bright n Breezy' out on the @wflabour.bsky.social🌹 #Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep yesterday AM. Lots of gr8 chat 💬 with local residents & plenty of support for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social🌹! @lgalabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social

Crackin 1st @wflabour.bsky.social🌹 @lgalabour.bsky.social🌹 @teamlabouruk.bsky.social🌹 #Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep of ‘25 with @calvinbailey.bsky.social to kick off @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #NationalCampaignWeekend this AM. Lots of really gr8 chat 💬 & positive support!

Gr8 to see #LBWalthamForest joining the #NLWA #BringIt #ReusableRevolution to combat single use plastic! @wflabour.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @mikehakata.bsky.social @adamdkharrison.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social www.nlwa.gov.uk/news/waltham...

Esther Road in Waltham Forest was subject to bad flooding in 2021. Parking out, rain gardens in. Beautiful, urban cooling, mental health boosting, biodiverse, flood mitigating awesomeness. @labourstone.bsky.social @meristemdesign.bsky.social #healthystreets #healthystreets4hhlp

Busy #Leytonstone Cllrs Surgery. Site visit to see sheet ice 🥶 originating from a developers site impacting #pedestrians #cyclists. A difficult housing case, a #flytipper trying to avoid paying an FPN & a #recycling ♻️ refuse-nik, who turned up to return his caddy liners 🤷! @wflabour.bsky.social

Always good to catch up with #Leytonstones fav & best #Barber💈/ Hair Stylist Costa in ‘Mario’s’ for a #ChristmasTrim & #BarbersChair💈 Banter😉🫢🤫! Wot a #Leytonstone & Waltham Forest #Legend Costa is! @lgalabour.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social

‘Christmas🎄Cuppa with a Cllr’ Fri. 6th Dec.- 1030- 1130AM -Leytonstone Library. Clyde🎅, Jenny🧑‍🎄 & Marie🤶 would like to invite Leytonstone Ward residents to join them for a bit of Christmas Chat🎄, a ☕️ ,& a mince 🥧! Clyde, Marie & Jenny 🎄☃️🎅🎄☃️🧑‍🎄🎄☃️🤶 @lgalabour.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social

So it’s Heidi Alexander replacing Lou Haigh…seems a promising appointment for safety and active travel. What do people think? www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

Securing ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ payments was part of @wflabour.bsky.social ‘22 Manifesto. So after years of dither & delay by Tory Govs., this is a big initial step forward by DeFRA SoS Steve Reed & our new @UKLabour Government. My NLWA statement here👇! www.nlwa.gov.uk/news/nlwa-ca...

Pleased to see my friend & colleague @heidialexander.bsky.social as the new SoS for Transport. Heidi understands the opportunities for #activetravel🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚲🛴 in helping improve our own health & wellbeing, as well as that of our towns, cities & our planet 🌍! @wflabour.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social

Crackin' @wflabour.bsky.social #Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep this AM in the glorious winter su☀️! Lots of people talking about the need to reconsult on expanding the nearby #SchoolStreet! We'll see what we can do! @graciemaew.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @kira.social @ahsankhan9.bsky.social

1.3 million journeys a day! 1.3 MILLION JOURNEYS A DAY!!! New data release from Transport for London today shows cycling in London is going up, and up and up. tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/new-tfl... We campaign, we deliver, London wins.

Gr8 to get a progress update yesterday on Waltham Forest Councils 12 month #CoffeeCup #Recycling♻️ Scheme operating in our Town Centres across the borough. We’ve collected via our fab barrow crews 0.64 tonnes of used coffee cups- roughly 16,000- to be #recycled♻️ into paper. @wflabour.bsky.social

💥London’s cycling boom continues💥 📈New data shows bike journeys in the capital are up 26% since 2019 to 1.33m every day 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🥳💚💚 We’ll keep work with boroughs to make more streets safer and enable even more Londoners to get around on 2 (or 3) wheels 🚲🙂🚲

Gr8 to welcome @metecoban92.bsky.social, Sem Moema GLA, @graciemaew.bsky.social @ahsankhan9.bsky.social to Sutherland Rd, E17 today to unveil 'probably' the world's longest #RainGarden in a residential street- incl. 68 🌳's & plenty of plants! @wflabour.bsky.social @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social

With 1000 public #EVCPs⚡️in Waltham Forest🌳, we now have one of the highest number of any local council in the UK. So pleased to have that recognised with this award last nite! @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

Busy & chilly 🥶 48hrs out on the #LabourDoorStep in Grove Green & Leytonstone Wards in Waltham Forest- lots of great 💬- & Jubilee Ward in Enfield with @graciemaew.bsky.social supporting fab. Ian Barnes in the By- Election on Thurs. 28th Nov. #VoteLabour🌹@lgalabour.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social

LTN delivered last year in The Lloyd Park area has transformed the neighborhood and provided a safer, cleaner and greener school run. Great work by @labourstone.bsky.social Waltham Forest Council Cllr's, residents and campaigners.

Lovely to help at the Waltham Forest Council #Leytonstone #Christmas🎄 Lights Switch On yesterday at St Johns with Marie, Jenny & players from Leyton Orient FC ⚽️. Gr8 to see & hear so many families helping out with the countdown! I hear Stone Mini Market #MulledWine was a hit!

#Wowzer honour & privelege WF recognised at the London Cycling Awards in the year of #Enjoy #MiniHolland 10th Anniversay for 'Active & Inclusive Travel'. Lots done, but plenty more to do! Lovely to bump into local WF Active Travel Campaigners Mariam from JoyRiders & Toby from Healthy Higham Hill.

#RIP #JohnPrescott🌹stalwart & powerhouse of the Labour Party🌹. Thank you for your service.

Great to attend @londoncycling.bsky.social AGM and campaigner awards where Waltham Forest picked up an award for being the boldest borough on active travel thanks to @labourstone.bsky.social Become a member of LCC if you want to see better cycling in London. Third party insurance too!

Congratulations to the winners of the LGiU councillor awards which took place, yesterday evening. Selected by a cross-party judging panel, all 5 winners are Labour councillors.🌹

Kemi was of course local government minister when council tax limits were set at 5% The budget which followed planned the same for every year to 2028 They now want the investment but not the tax they planned for Same approach left taxpayers with a £22bn blackhole www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Crackin #WalthamForest #Labour #LabourDoorStep this AM in #LeytonstoneE11. Lots of really positive feedback re the difference the #ModalFilter in #ScarboroughRd has made to the residents of #CavendishDrive. 🚲🚶‍♀️‍➡️🛴🚲🚶‍♀️‍➡️🛴

So, my council lets you hire these trailers for free (£100 deposit) and they are amazing. I've moved furniture, compost, a whole dismantled kitchen including a fridge. Here I offered to pick up plants for someone I didn't know because it was on my way. Bravo wfcouncil @labourstone.bsky.social

Hello? Anybody out there……? Just planning my long overdue evac. ‘from that which shall not be named’, just wanted to see whether anybody has successfully made it to the ‘Otherside’?

Vote for Laura Laker's excellent book Potholes and Pavements here: peoplesbookprize.com/2024-books/p...? @lauralaker.bsky.social