Category: Newsletters

You Must Be Choking! Residents dealing with “mountains of dust” from former Greggs site. Your Green Party councillor, Richard Bennett, has strongly criticised the developers of the former Greggs bakery site for causing serious dust pollution. Residents living nearby have complained that large quantities of demolition dust particles are severely affecting their health and wellbeing.…

Stop the thames sewage pump:  Huge thanks to all of you who came to the Show of Hands event on 28 June at Burnell Avenue Green Space to demonstrate the depth of community resistance to the ‘Thames Sewage Pump’. Now, it’s your chance to tell Thames Water not to dump ‘treated’ sewage into our stretch…

New planters cheer up Ham Parade:  You may have noticed some leafy additions to the west side of Ham Parade recently. Andrée is part of Friends of Ham Parade (FHP), an informal group of traders, councillors, Ham Parade Market and local residents’ associations, who have come together to help the Parade thrive. FHP successfully made…

Climate crisis:  Caroline took part in a small working group that looked at how the Council could support residents to make their homes more energy efficient, or decarbonise their home heating by switching to renewable energy sources such as solar power or heat pumps. The group produced a range of recommendations that the Council will…

Green Councillors working hard for you:  Your five Green Councillors continue to push the Lib Dems to take stronger action on clean air, the climate crisis and affordable housing. Former Green MP Caroline Lucas successfully campaigned to introduce a Natural History GCSE, which was meant to be brought in this September. The Labour Government has…