I know we are EDF but..

[heartblock]

I?m sure this will be lounged, but as we are discussing clean air etc. our neighbours in Peckham are having Green Spaces taken away from them while very privileged residents in the most expensive and greenest part of Southwark now have less tarffic and their new ?square? please whatever your thoughts on LTNs, support our neighbours and write to Southwark to stop them from building on green spaces and trees....which are the lungs for all of us.

Trees remove pollutants and produce oxygen..we need them.

[legalalien]

Heartblock 100% agree with you on this. Do you know if there are any petitions/ campaigns people can easily sign up to or who we need to write to? Happy to try and look it up but I suspect you may already know the answer?

[heartblock]

Well @CourtCampaign on Twitter is a good place to start. There has already been a very ancient tree felling ?by mistake? and they have campaign and protest days....

it seems that Mums for Lungs and Clean Air for Dulwich don?t seem bothered so much about this aspect of de-greening Southwark, so I urge others on roads effected by extra pollution due to LTNs to show support for our neighbours. It?s all about intersectionality of the impact of decisions that make life better for the privileged few to the detriment of the many.

[ab29]

Found an article but cannot see a petition:

https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/battle-to-save-peckham-green-space-with-new-council-homes-planned/

[malumbu]

A general plea to title your threads properly. And also not to conflate Southwark's proposals to build social housing, with LTNs. There are enough threads on the latter on the ED part of this forum.

Did join the ride yesterday around some of the small green areas that Southwark may build on. There is an adult conversation about this.

The big picture is that 40 years or so ago the then government, who were anti the state owning and renting out housing, sold most of the local authority stock to tenants. There were probably more winners than losers at the time, but the lack of replenishment, and further clipping of councils' wings such as the move to housing associations, have led to where we are today. That is not a criticism of housing associations.

And the current government, with their stamp duty holiday, have further contributed to making houses even less affordable to many.

[JohnL]

We're supposed to be having two new squares in Peckham and a "coal line" which is planned to be green.

last update was march

http://www.peckhamcoalline.org/

[JohnL]

And as property is mentioned here one of the things this government could do is ensure 1/2 bedroom flats can be sold so families can move to bigger properties as their families grow and out of the starter flats - but we have a stalled (for flats) housing market due to cladding and leasehold issues meaning families are growing up in inner city flats when they would normally have moved on.