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Sally Kindberg and the importance of green spaces (part two)

Posted on June 7, 2020 by SallyK

Not far from where I live is a nature reserve.  Its meadow, currently full of wild sweet peas and wild geraniums, is a delight. There’s a beetle hotel there too, built by High Speed Rail in return for … access … Continue reading →

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HS2 evicts Euston humans, but builds hotel for Camden beetles

Posted on December 28, 2017 by SallyK

More unchecked HS2 lunacy.  This letter from Jeff Travers (Chair, Adelaide Community Garden Club) in the 28th December edition of the Camden New Journal comments on the recent eviction of uncompensated Euston homeowners, and the building of a hotel for … Continue reading →

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HS2 and a memorial service at St James’s Gardens, Euston, London

Posted on August 23, 2017 by SallyK

Great sadness this morning at St. James’s Gardens, a former burial ground belonging to St James’s Church, Piccadilly, as a memorial service was held for the 60,000 people buried there, whose bodies will soon be exhumed and ‘stored’ before reburial, … Continue reading →

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High Speed Rail hearing at the House of Lords Select Committee

Posted on September 28, 2016 by SallyK

The morning started with hedgehogs.  HS2 (High Speed Rail 2) want to use London Zoo‘s carpark as a lorry depot.  Hedgehogs live on the leafy edges of the carpark.  Could this endangered species survive the estimated two hundred (the number … Continue reading →

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