26 July 2016
The Mayor of London's public consultation on measures to resolve the capital's air quality crisis finishes on Friday 29th July. Recently published reports question the adequacy of Sadiq Khan's proposals and suggest much tougher controls, especially in relation to diesel cars.
See this earlier article for information about the consultation.
Call to completely remove diesel cars
A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, drawing on analysis by Kings College London, calls.......
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09 July 2016
The Mayor of London has set out his intention to address poor air quality in the capital. He has announced plans to introduce new measures, such as an extra charge on the most polluting vehicles, and expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone beyond inner London, in order to improve the local environment and health of residents and visitors.
Residents of all London boroughs are invited to participate in an online consultation about their views on the severity of the problem and proposed.......
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17 May 2016
A new campaigning group is calling for a fairer balance between cars, cycles, buses and pedestrians on Enfield's roads. Better Streets for Enfield supports the Cycle Enfield (Mini Holland) plans to boost cycling and walking rates by installing bike lanes, 'quieter neighbourhoods', and redesigned high streets.
Devonshire Road should by rights be a quiet residential street, but most of the time is a "rat run". For two hours a month it turns into a Play Street (Photo: Phil Rogers)While.......
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12 May 2016
A Day of Action is being coordinated by Thames21 and CleanupUK to clean up the footpath beside the New River. Residents are coming together at 5 locations to spruce up these well used and well loved paths beside this seventeenth century aqueduct.
Volunteers are invited to join Thames21 and CleanupUK at one of the sites in Hackney, Haringey or Enfield.
Meet at 10am at any of these locations:
Turkey Street: between Bulls Cross and St Ignatius College, Enfield, EN1 contact:.......
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02 May 2016
The following advice has been issued by the British Lung Foundation.
What can I do about air pollution?
On most days and away from busy city streets, air pollution in the UK does not rise to levels at which we need to make major changes to our habits to avoid exposure.
Nobody needs to worry about going outdoors. Children should not be kept from going to school or stopped from taking part in games.
If you have a lung condition, you might want to avoid spending long periods of time in places.......
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29 April 2016
The following is reproduced from www.parliament.uk
Urgent Government action is needed to stop up to 50,000 people a year dying early from air pollution-related illnesses, says the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, in its report on Air quality.
Report: Air quality
Report: Air quality (PDF 675KB)
Inquiry: Air quality
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
The Committee's Air quality report presses for new Clean Air Zones in dozens of English towns and cities.......
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27 April 2016
The upcoming bank holiday sees the opening of a large wildlife reserve that includes two reservoirs hoding water that has travelled along the New River, through Palmers Green. The Woodberry Wetlands project is run by the London Wildlife Trust and is making the area accessible to the public for the first time since the reservoirs were built in 1833.
You can watch a clip about the Wetlands from BBC1.
The wetlands will be open every day and there will be regular guided tours and various.......
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12 April 2016
Many of you will have heard about the plans of the Friends of Broomfield Park to create a wildlife pond and a community growing space in the park. Well, it is about to happen.
Do you fancy helping to create the new wildlife pond and community growing space in Broomfield Park?
The pond and growing space will be located between the tennis courts and the orchard.
The location of the growing space and wildlife pond - and what they might look like
1. Marking out, stripping the turf and.......
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27 March 2016
The Pinkham Way Alliance (PWA) has published the text of its detailed submission to Haringey Council in response to the public consultation on Haringey Local Plan documents. Its representations are aimed at preventing development of open land which was once the site of the Friern Barnet Sewage Works site at Pinkham Way, adjacent to the North Circular Road and Muswell Hill Golf Course.
In its draft planning documents Haringey is designating the land both as a Site of Importance for Nature.......
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15 March 2016
The project to transform an unexciting area of playing fields into a haven for wildlife and attractive open space while simultaneously helping to mitigate flooding reached another milestone on 9th March, when the Firs Farm Wetlands and Cycle Path were formally opened.
See here at the ribbon cutting ceremony are (from left to right) Cllr Bambos Charalambous (Associate Cabinet Member Enfield Southgate), Ian Russell (Senior Engineer from Enfield Council), Cllr Daniel Anderson (Enfield.......
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01 March 2016
Prizes of up to £1000 are being offered to artists living in Enfield or Haringey for an artwork which illustrates what life in the two boroughs might be like if environmental improvements had been made.
The competition is being run by Enfield and Haringey Green Parties in conjunction with Collage Arts. The challenge they are setting is to create art that depicts, embodies, or expresses what it could be like in Enfield and Haringey if one or more of the questions below were to be.......
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01 March 2016
Nine of the UK's leading environmental campaigns have come together to publish a manifesto outlining ways in which the next Mayor of London could tackle the capital's growing environmental problems.
Greener London: What the next Mayor can do to improve our capital has been produced by the Campaign for Better Transport, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, Friends of the Earth, the Green Alliance, Greenpeace, the London Wildlife Trust, the National Trust, the Royal.......
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23 February 2016
A message from Sue Davies of North London Organic Gardeners
We are a local branch of Garden Organic and are planning on a visit to their gardens at Ryton near Coventry on Saturday June 18th. (It would be leaving from Winchmore Hill at 9am returning from Ryton at 3.30pm; a guided tour is arranged if wanted)
We would like to hire a coach to make this trip, but would need to attract more people than just our local members. If anyone is interested in joining us please contact me for more details.......
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05 January 2016
The environmental group Thames 21 has issued a progress report on one of its north London projects - the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge. During 2015 work was continued in Grovelands Park and along the Houndsden Gutter.
What is the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge?
The Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge is part of Thames 21's Love the Lea programme of work to improve the quality of the water in the River Lea, some of which is used to provide drinking water and some.......
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13 November 2015
In this film of a presentation at a conference held in Australlia, Simon Birkett, Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, talks about the most important lessons learned by him from 10 years of campaigning on air pollution. The film urges immediate action to reduce local air pollution and greenhouse gases to protect public health and mitigate climate change.
"One Atmosphere" can be viewed as ten separate "chapters" or as a single 35 minute film at https://vimeo.com/145615256........
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11 November 2015
The Chair of the Pinkham Way Alliance (PWA) has written to Haringey Council's cabinet member for planning policy to complain about suppression and misrepresentation of evidence which contradicts the Council's policy of classifying woodland at Pinkham Way as suitable for employment use.
In his letter dated 5th November 2015 Stephen Brice writes that the PWA has come to the view that its evidence "is so inconvenient for the Council that there has been a systematic attempt to bury it".
The.......
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06 November 2015
Enfield RoadWatch Action Group - formed to campaign against a proposal to build on Green Belt land between Enfield Town and Oakwood - have launched a photograph and slogan competition designed to publicise their campaign.
So far the nearly 4000 people have signed the online petition against building on the land.
For the background to the campaign, see this earlier report.
Enfield RoadWatch Action Group is delighted to announce the first
'Our Green Belt Enfield'
Photograph.......
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01 November 2015
The charity London Wildlife Trust is appealing to householders to reverse the trend towards paving over gardens, especially front gardens from which rainwater spills onto roads and into drains. The following article is reproduced from the Trust's website.
We are losing our gardens at an alarming rate. The allure of free off-street parking, a bigger bike shed or simply the idea of a low maintenance space in our busy modern lives has left our city’s gardens in crisis.
In London,.......
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16 October 2015
One of the points made repeatedly by opponents of plans to create cycle lanes along main roads is that they would benefit only cyclists and no-one else and that cyclists were therefore being unduly prioritised. Enfield Council, and at an all-London level, the Mayor of London, have put the case for benefits to the people of Enfield and of London across the board.
A newly published academic study sets out why the Council and the Mayor are right and the protesters are wrong. Benefits.......
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11 October 2015
The Pinkham Way Alliance has now published the response it submitted to the consultation about the North London Waste Plan. Following a fundraising campaign, the Alliance was able to employ a planning consultancy, Turley, to present arguments against the allocation of Pinkham Wood as a potential site for waste processing, and, more generally, to question the draft Waste Plan's assumptions about future waste volumes and required processing throughput.
The Response and associated.......
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