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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 2d

The problem isn’t the planning system. It’s a broken, profit-driven housing model that banks land and starves supply. Scrapping nature protections won’t build 1.5m homes, it will just bulldoze public trust and the countryside.

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The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial

Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

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Ian Phillips @wildlifeian.bsky.social · 2d

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Planting the Millfields pond - London

YouTube video by Ian Phillips

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 2d

We can't stop deforestation without the experts: Indigenous people. 💚

At #COP30, the UK govt has a chance to champion their rights, funding and legal protection. Tell the UK climate minister: back the forest defenders. Sign the open letter. action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/def...

Demand UK support for Indigenous forest defenders at climate talks

Our world’s forests are under threat, worsening climate change, biodiversity loss and threatening vulnerable communities. This year’s UN climate talks – hosted in the Amazon – are our chance to act. W...

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 2d

In our latest blog, we explore the flood risk associated with building on the Thames Water Depot and how the transformation of the site into @elwaterworks.bsky.social would mitigate flood risk - a fitting local response to a Climate & Nature Emergency

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Flood risk building on the Thames Water Depot

Google map illustrating the site’s proximity to the Old River Lea and Lee Navigation The following text is adapted from a speech that Save Lea Marshes was intending to give last year. Waltham…

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 3d

💩Thames Water wants Ofwat to let them carry on pouring sewage into our rivers beyond the next general election.

😡And the one after that.

😡😡And the one after that.

✍️Sign our petition today and tell Ofwat this cannot happen!

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 3d

The latest on the proposals for the secure facility for children planned for the Thames Water Depot, the Mayor's Open Water Swimming Guide and more.

Read our latest newsletter & sign up for future editions to your inbox here: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/SLM.html?Pag...

Save Lea Marshes | Keep our marshes open and green!

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 3d

Our latest water #pollution readings for the #RiverLea

All data is updated monthly on our website Science page: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/science/

Graph showing phosphate concentration across 4 locations on the River Lea since 2021

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Ian Phillips @wildlifeian.bsky.social · 12d

River Lea Walk - Source to Thames in 3 days - Part 1
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Walking the River Lea - Source To Thames - Day 1 Houghton to Hatfield

YouTube video by Ian Phillips

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 14d

📢 Lugg Meadow, the UK’s largest remaining Lammas meadow, is under threat from housing plans. A rare habitat, rich in wildlife and tradition, could be irreversibly damaged.

🚫 We’ve objected to the proposal. Now it’s your turn.
👉 Have your say: https://loom.ly/-yNvG6g

A wide meadow filled with bright yellow wildflowers under a blue sky with scattered white clouds, bordered by green trees in the distance. Photo credit: Chris Harris.

A Eurasian curlew standing in a grassy field, showing its long, downward-curved bill and mottled brown plumage. Photo credit: Bahadir Yeniceri

Close-up of a cluster of small white flowers from a narrow-leaved water-dropwort plant, with green blurred foliage in the background. Photo credit: Nahhan.

Close-up of bright yellow buttercup flowers in a meadow, with a soft-focus background of more yellow blooms. Photo credit: Chris Harris.

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 14d

🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.

Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations?

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Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations

Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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CPRE London @cprelondon.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.
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New guide to protecting green spaces launched

CPRE London is working to enhance, promote and protect London's green spaces. Love London's beautiful green spaces? Find out more and get involved.

www.cprelondon.org.uk

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent

Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Aug 24

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
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East London Waterworks Park @elwaterworks.bsky.social · Aug 8

🍃 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

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Aug 20

🧵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.

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 16

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...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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CPRE London @cprelondon.bsky.social · Aug 14

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...

Whitewebbs campaigners announce new Judicial Review

CPRE London is working to enhance, promote and protect London's green spaces. Love London's beautiful green spaces? Find out more and get involved.

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 9

25% funded already! Keep donating and sharing 💚

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 8

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 Whitewebbs Park - Fund Our Judicial Review!

Whitewebbs Park, Enfield, is under threat from development by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Join us in protecting this beautifully, naturally rewilded park from destruction. 💚🌱

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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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