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Category: Environment

A couple of books for you…

It’s not often we plug books we haven’t even read! These look like they will be interesting and useful – … More

Bristol Radical History Group, Green New Deal, greenwashing, land, landownership, neocolonialism, Nick Hayes, Peter Gelderloos, trespass

Thurrock flooding revisited…

Why are we revisiting this issue? It does seem to be the case that after each flooding event here in … More

building on floodplains, Bulphan floods, Chelmsford Weather Station, climate change, headwater flood management, intense rainfall events, lack of holistic thinking, lack of joined up thinking, solutions to flooding, Stanford-le-Hope flooding, Thurrock Council response to flooding, Thurrock flooding January 2021

Our sister project: Alternative Estuary

We’d like to (re)introduce you to one of our other projects: Alternative Estuary – blog: https://alternativeestuary.home.blog/ Alternative Estuary – Facebook: … More

Alternative Estuary, community activism, community control, community organising, Grassroots activism, grassroots organising, grassroots projects

Institutional rot

Dave – the editor With my Thurrock and Basildon Heckler hat on, I’ve become a frustrated and often angry observer … More

institutional rot, Stanford-le-Hope station redevelopment, Thurrock Council, Thurrock Council incompetent, Thurrock Council response to flooding, Thurrock Council unaccountable, Thurrock flooding January 2021, unaccountable council officers, unelected council officers

Not the holistic look at the January floods in Thurrock that we were hoping for

Many residents in Thurrock will not forget the flooding the borough suffered back in January. These are the posts we … More

building on floodplains, Bulphan flooding, Stanford floods, Stanford-le-Hope flooding, Thurrock Council response to flooding, Thurrock flooding 2021, Thurrock flooding January 2021

Imposed change and a lack of control

Living and operating out on the Thames estuary, we’re aware of a lot of changes in the pipeline. Changes led … More

alienation, Basildon town centre masterplan, Cllr. Gavin Callaghan, disaffection, imposed changes, KenEx tram link, Lower Thames River Crossing, Thames estuary regeneration, Thames Gateway, The London Resort, Thurrock Freeport

Clusterf**ks and system failures

Dave – the editor Preamble This piece is intended to look at how the systems and structures many people take … More

A13 widening, A13 widening problems, Anglian Water, building on floodplains, Bulphan flooding, Environment Agency, Mar Dyke flooding, Stanford floods, Stanford-le-Hope flooding, Thurrock Council

Why what we do IS political

This is an expanded version of a piece that was originally published on our sister blog, Alternative Estuary. Politics – … More

Alternative Estuary, definition of politics, food supply chain, grassroots organising, grow your own food, party politics, politics, radical change, what is politics

‘Regeneration’ – the only way is up

These are just a few of the high rise apartment blocks mooted for Basildon town centre. If these are built, … More

Basildon town centre masterplan, developers vs residents, future of Basildon town centre, future of town centres, high rise apartments, holistic planning, holistic urban planning

Contested spaces…

Dave – the editor Back in May on our sister project, Alternative Estuary, we published this piece eulogising the value … More

Alternative Estuary, conflicting uses of open space, contested spaces, problem quad bikers, problem scrambler bikers, quad bikers, scrambler bikers

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