Save Lea Marshes
@saveleamarshes.bsky.social
Follow our campaign to protect the Lower Lea Valley (Leyton, Walthamstow & Hackney Marshes) from inappropriate use and development.
https://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
Natural Intelligence only
https://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
Natural Intelligence only
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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…
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
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
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...
This is URGENT ⚠️
Please email your MP today!
No cash-to-trash Nature
Please email your MP today!
No cash-to-trash Nature
URGENT - please email your MP today and help them to take an evidence based approach to policy creation. Ask them to vote for amendment 130 act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is URGENT ⚠️
Please email your MP today!
No cash-to-trash Nature
Please email your MP today!
No cash-to-trash Nature
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More than £11m spent tackling wildfires and floods in London since 2018
Fresh calls made for increased investment in the capital’s climate resilience
enfielddispatch.co.uk/more-than-11...
Fresh calls made for increased investment in the capital’s climate resilience
enfielddispatch.co.uk/more-than-11...
More than £11m spent tackling wildfires and floods in London since 2018
Fresh calls made for increased investment in the capital’s climate resilience
enfielddispatch.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
More than £11m spent tackling wildfires and floods in London since 2018
Fresh calls made for increased investment in the capital’s climate resilience
enfielddispatch.co.uk/more-than-11...
Fresh calls made for increased investment in the capital’s climate resilience
enfielddispatch.co.uk/more-than-11...
Big polluters caused the climate crisis - why should we pay for the impacts while they continue to profit?
Join us and add your name to this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition, demand big polluters pay their fair share for a greener future🌍👇 foe.uk/lipp6
Join us and add your name to this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition, demand big polluters pay their fair share for a greener future🌍👇 foe.uk/lipp6
Make polluters worldwide pay for a greener future
While the cost of living and climate crises rage on and oil and gas companies' profits soar, something is shifting… More and more of us want big polluters to pay for the damage they cause to our plane...
foe.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Big polluters caused the climate crisis - why should we pay for the impacts while they continue to profit?
Join us and add your name to this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition, demand big polluters pay their fair share for a greener future🌍👇 foe.uk/lipp6
Join us and add your name to this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition, demand big polluters pay their fair share for a greener future🌍👇 foe.uk/lipp6
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🦇 This is the last chance to protect species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Ask your MP to keep Amendment 130: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...
Ask your MP to keep Amendment 130: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...
Ask your MP to protect bat species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill - News - Bat Conservation Trust
This is the last chance to protect species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
www.bats.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🦇 This is the last chance to protect species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Ask your MP to keep Amendment 130: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...
Ask your MP to keep Amendment 130: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...
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Mycena haematopus. Happy Halloween 🎃 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Mycena haematopus. Happy Halloween 🎃 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
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Do you think this planning bill is worth it? This government is selling out our nature and wildlife to benefit wealthy property developers. We were promised change with Labour.
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
August 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Do you think this planning bill is worth it? This government is selling out our nature and wildlife to benefit wealthy property developers. We were promised change with Labour.
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
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Tell Amazon: Stop the trinket trade with the painted woolly bat! action.eko.org/a/painted-wo...
Save the painted woolly bats
UPDATE: eBay has banned the sale of painted woolly bats on its platform! Now let's keep up the pressure to make sure Amazon follows suit.------Painted woolly bats are selfless little forest guardians,
action.eko.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tell Amazon: Stop the trinket trade with the painted woolly bat! action.eko.org/a/painted-wo...
Absolutely shocking.
A Lord is proposing an Amendment to the already dire Planning & Infrastructure Bill that would do away with existing protections for parks in order to enable development of #WimbledonPark.
putney.news/2025/10/25/l...
#P&IBill
A Lord is proposing an Amendment to the already dire Planning & Infrastructure Bill that would do away with existing protections for parks in order to enable development of #WimbledonPark.
putney.news/2025/10/25/l...
#P&IBill
Lord tries to rewrite law to rescue Wimbledon from court battle. He sits on the AELTC board - Putney.news
Lord sponsoring law change benefiting All England Club while serving as director sparks conflict concerns from MPs ahead of crucial Lords debate.
putney.news
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Absolutely shocking.
A Lord is proposing an Amendment to the already dire Planning & Infrastructure Bill that would do away with existing protections for parks in order to enable development of #WimbledonPark.
putney.news/2025/10/25/l...
#P&IBill
A Lord is proposing an Amendment to the already dire Planning & Infrastructure Bill that would do away with existing protections for parks in order to enable development of #WimbledonPark.
putney.news/2025/10/25/l...
#P&IBill
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“Head of OFWAT hear us say, Thames Water NO way!”
OFWAT is considering allowing Thames Water to break the rules and dump sewage in our rivers and seas for the next 15 years.
We are outside OFWAT HQ to demand they say NO!
OFWAT is considering allowing Thames Water to break the rules and dump sewage in our rivers and seas for the next 15 years.
We are outside OFWAT HQ to demand they say NO!
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“Head of OFWAT hear us say, Thames Water NO way!”
OFWAT is considering allowing Thames Water to break the rules and dump sewage in our rivers and seas for the next 15 years.
We are outside OFWAT HQ to demand they say NO!
OFWAT is considering allowing Thames Water to break the rules and dump sewage in our rivers and seas for the next 15 years.
We are outside OFWAT HQ to demand they say NO!
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In 2 days Ofwat, the water regulator, will decide if they will approve Thames Water's plan to:
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In 2 days Ofwat, the water regulator, will decide if they will approve Thames Water's plan to:
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick.
STOP the Planning & Infrastructure Bill ⚠️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
STOP the Planning & Infrastructure Bill ⚠️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick.
STOP the Planning & Infrastructure Bill ⚠️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
STOP the Planning & Infrastructure Bill ⚠️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition.
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
October 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition.
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
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Aim: One street. 20 solar roofs. 30% savings. Help us show 100 communities how to copy this across Britain. Every street a POWER STATION! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/themillion
Power Station: Every Street Can Do This
One street. 20 solar roofs. 30% savings. Help us show 100 communities how to copy this across Britain. Every street a POWER STATION!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Aim: One street. 20 solar roofs. 30% savings. Help us show 100 communities how to copy this across Britain. Every street a POWER STATION! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/themillion
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This film! This whole project! Artists that make things happen
#powerstation #solarstreet #danedelstyn #hilarypowell
https://streetbystreet.power.film/doughnutday2025/index
#powerstation #solarstreet #danedelstyn #hilarypowell
https://streetbystreet.power.film/doughnutday2025/index
POWER STATION DOUGHNUT DAY SCREENING
POWER STATION DIY GUIDE
streetbystreet.power.film
October 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This film! This whole project! Artists that make things happen
#powerstation #solarstreet #danedelstyn #hilarypowell
https://streetbystreet.power.film/doughnutday2025/index
#powerstation #solarstreet #danedelstyn #hilarypowell
https://streetbystreet.power.film/doughnutday2025/index
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Films for Action
POWER STATION
Community-led activism for a solar energy revolution
Friday, November 21st
7.0pm - 9:30pm. Doors open 6.30pm
Panel Discussion
St Paul's Church, West Hackney
182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE
Free - donations welcome
To book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-stat...
POWER STATION
Community-led activism for a solar energy revolution
Friday, November 21st
7.0pm - 9:30pm. Doors open 6.30pm
Panel Discussion
St Paul's Church, West Hackney
182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE
Free - donations welcome
To book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-stat...
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Films for Action
POWER STATION
Community-led activism for a solar energy revolution
Friday, November 21st
7.0pm - 9:30pm. Doors open 6.30pm
Panel Discussion
St Paul's Church, West Hackney
182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE
Free - donations welcome
To book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-stat...
POWER STATION
Community-led activism for a solar energy revolution
Friday, November 21st
7.0pm - 9:30pm. Doors open 6.30pm
Panel Discussion
St Paul's Church, West Hackney
182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE
Free - donations welcome
To book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-stat...
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.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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...
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...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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...
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...
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
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...
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…
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...
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💩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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😡And the one after that.
😡😡And the one after that.
✍️Sign our petition today and tell Ofwat this cannot happen!
vist.ly/4a9yj
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
💩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!
vist.ly/4a9yj
😡And the one after that.
😡😡And the one after that.
✍️Sign our petition today and tell Ofwat this cannot happen!
vist.ly/4a9yj
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...
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!
www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
Read our latest newsletter & sign up for future editions to your inbox here: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/SLM.html?Pag...
Our latest water #pollution readings for the #RiverLea
All data is updated monthly on our website Science page: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/science/
All data is updated monthly on our website Science page: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/science/
October 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our latest water #pollution readings for the #RiverLea
All data is updated monthly on our website Science page: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/science/
All data is updated monthly on our website Science page: www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/science/
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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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October 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
River Lea Walk - Source to Thames in 3 days - Part 1
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