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We are the Brent River & Canal Society who campaigned to create the Brent River Park in Ealing, London 50 years ago. It’s your park, join us to protect it💚💙
This was thrown out.

Some pithy comments here from members of the Lords.

putney.news/2025/11/04/w...
Wimbledon Park amendment abandoned after peers condemn ‘erosion’ of green space protection - Putney.news
Lord O'Donnell's controversial law change dropped following government rejection and cross-party opposition.
putney.news
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We have long had a policy of opposing any new hard-standing in the Brent River Park.

We are asking Ealing residents to oppose the building of a telecom mast right next to the River Brent floodplain at Brentham Meadows. Deadline for objections is today.

www.brentriverpark.org/environmenta...
Environmental groups unite against telecoms mast threatening protected Brentham Meadows - Brent River Park
Brentham Meadows. Photo by Ben Morris Ealing’s environmental organisations have condemned plans to erect a 17.5-metre telecoms mast on Brentham Meadows, a 9.5 acre meadow located in the Northern end o...
www.brentriverpark.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
We exposed a similar problem in West and North London a year ago.

Diligent research by our trustee Ben Morris of @brentpollution.bsky.social and our friends at @friendsrivcrane.bsky.social found 100 homes discharging sewage into rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Raw sewage from new homes being flushed into London rivers
Raw sewage is being dumped into London's rivers from at least 100 homes, a charity finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
If you want to know the story behind those foul brown discharges shown in the film, see @jim.londoncentric.media investigation here.

www.londoncentric.media/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: The London flats pushing raw sewage into the Thames
London Centric shows you the apartment blocks sending untreated human waste into the capital's waterways, causing "a quiet, steady, background poisoning".
www.londoncentric.media
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Congratulations on the new job @rachel-rees.bsky.social.
Thank you for all the work you did on the poo-in-the-rivers story.

www.londoncentric.media/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: The London flats pushing raw sewage into the Thames
London Centric shows you the apartment blocks sending untreated human waste into the capital's waterways, causing "a quiet, steady, background poisoning".
www.londoncentric.media
September 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The new organisation “would replace Ofwat, the Drinking Water Inspectorate and water-environment related functions from the Environment Agency and Natural England.”
July 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Reposted by Brent River Park
Steve Toft of Brent River Park charity @brentriverpark.bsky.social, said: “It’s great news that Ealing Council @ealingcouncil.bsky.social has secured £1m of funding for the regional park.It comes at an opportune time, in the 50th anniversary year of the Brent River Park
ealing.news/environment/...
Ealing gets nearly £1m for ambitious new regional park - EALING.NEWS - The Voice of Ealing's 7 towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall.
Ealing Council has been awarded nearly £1 million to support its ambitious plans for a new regional park in the borough, as part of a nationwide initiative to bring nature into urban areas.
ealing.news
July 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM