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Sara🌻Mertonian, strong believer in community/civic pride,fighting&coaxing developers/Merton Council not to rip heart out of town&people. Clean air’s a right.
Merton, England
Joined February 2016
Local authorities are building new schools on pollution hotspots, ignoring evidence that pollution is an invisible killer. A 1,150 student Harris Wimbledon is being pushed through on a cramped toxic site. Help us to stop this.
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Don’t Build Schools in Pollution Hotspots
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300 mature trees. 500+ saplings. Gone. This isn’t landscaping — it’s deforestation for sport. A canopy lost for 50 years, even if new trees survive. Nature doesn’t grow back overnight. 🌳 #Deforestation #EnvironmentalImpact @CPRELondon
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We invite anyone who supports us to travel with us from Wimbledon Station via the District Line to Temple, meeting outside the Wimbledon main entrance at 0730am If you can’t travel with us, meet us outside the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand by 9am
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We will protest peacefully with humour, banners, singing and SWP badges for all. Please wear supportive tee-shirts, fancy dress and paraphernalia! Let’s make sure that AELTC #ThinkAgain
@paulpowlesland @ChrisGPackham @PaulKohlerSW19 @PutneyFleur @CPRE @CPRELondon @MertonFoE
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Next Steps – The High Court!  The SWP judicial review that challenges the GLA’s planning permission to build on Wimbledon Park will be heard in the High Court on 8th and 9th July, during Wimbledon Fortnight  It has taken 4 yrs and many £1000’s of your money to get us to this
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@C20Society incredibly disappointing decision by @AngelaRayner & @marksandspencer - the embodied carbon alone makes this far too costly, not to mention the loss of this beautiful building. and for what?
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@C20Society @EmilyGreenaway9 On the eve of the Centenary of Art Deco this is such a disappointing turn of events. All too redolent of previous short-sighted losses of interwar architecture. So much for sustainability & #adaptivereuse. Seems we're on the same road to nowhere as before. The bulldozers triumph.
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@C20Society Oh goodness. How crass to destroy such a beautiful building. @marksandspencer WHY???
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BREAKING NEWS // Angela Rayner has granted permission for M&S to demolish their Oxford Street flagship store, overturning a decision by the previous Secretary of State. The chance to set a vision for a more sustainable and creative Britain that reuses its built-heritage has been
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Green politicians would never have approved such an irresponsible plan. It's just not good enough that Labour is divided on the matter. Their incoherence flies in the face of climate breakdown, the biodiversity crisis, and huge opposition from residents. https://t.co/3nqYb7dn7z
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The All England Club's plans to expand the Wimbledon site is approved, despite fierce local opposition to the scheme.
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Keep Deen City Farm Open! Sadly, 2024 has been a catastrophic year. A major power failure and massively increased costs means we are now struggling to keep afloat - without your help, we will have to close. Find out more about our charitable work & donate:
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Sadly, 2024 has been a catastrophic year for Deen City Farm. A major power system failure combined with massively increased costs means we are now struggling to keep afloat and, without your help, we...
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A severe bus crash on the corner of Prince George’s Ave where Kingston Rd meets Bushey Rd means there is currently no access to or from the road. We hope all are okay. Please avoid the area and give room for emergency services to work at the scene. We will share info as received
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HURRAH! @Merton_Council has agreed to our application for @MitchamCC's cricket pavilion to be listed as an "asset of community value" for another 5 years. This will help protect it & support its transfer into community hands as part of any solution to future of Burn Bullock site
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@CPSThinkTank @thetimes @rcolvile @mtpennycook @mhclg .... do please read @rcolvile's excellent article for more detail & to start exploring our data. Watch this space for more on our detailed proposals to how to devine #greybelt with more objectivity and for the full report by @SCP_Hughes & his colleagues from @CPSThinkTank using
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@CPSThinkTank @thetimes @rcolvile @mtpennycook .. a lot of this is in isolated or hard to get to pockets, isolated from railways or roads. Doubtless, this is why @mhclg is also proposing to count as #greybelt land that 'makes a limited contribution' to the greenbelt purposes....
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@CPSThinkTank @thetimes @rcolvile The good news is that there is a lot of #greybelt. Depending precisely on how you define it, from 3% to 4% of the greenbelt is previously built upon. Enough in principle to build over a million homes at #gentledensity. The problem for the government and @mtpennycook the housing
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@CPSThinkTank ... the @thetimes the director of @CPSThinkTank @rcolvile sets out this research and explores the history and present of the greenbelt. If you don't have a copy or a subscription there's still (just!) time to get one today. It's worth it. Online you can also have a play with the
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... over the last year we are @createstreets working with and for @CPSThinkTank have been working on just this question and have been pouring over official data, scanning aerial photographs & sending up drones to create the most detailed ever map of what is in the greenbelt.
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@HouseofCommons @LabourParty @KiarStarmer @AngelaRayner @mtpennycook … now lawyers are going to have LOTS of fun and spend a LOT of their clients’ money arguing over when greenbelt land “makes a limited contribution” to the purposes of the greenbelt. A more objective definition would work better. But this also raises two key questions…
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