Category Archives: Waterworks

Application for the Waterworks Festival REFUSED!

Posted on 18 May 2020 by SLMAdmin

A red kits soars over the Waterworks Meadow. Image by Giles Greenwood. Save Lea Marshes are delighted that the destructive Waterworks Festival will not go ahead on the wildflower meadow adjacent to the Waterworks Nature Reserve. The location was always … Continue reading →

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Waterworks Festival Licensing Application Hearing

Posted on 5 May 2020 by SLMAdmin

If you objected to the licence for the Waterworks Festival, you should have received an official notification from Waltham Forest Council telling you that the licensing hearing will take place online (using Microsoft Teams) at 14:00 on 12th May, together … Continue reading →

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New film: The Waterworks

Posted on 31 March 2020 by pjm

Thank you so much to Sheridan Flynn for creating and directing this short film about the proposed festival on the Waterworks meadow, next to the Waterworks Nature Reserve, for the next three years. No matter what happens this year, we … Continue reading →

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The LVRPA has revealed its true colours at last. Let’s tell them how we feel.

Posted on 18 March 2020 by SLMAdmin

I appreciate there is a great deal going on at the moment, and that this is a time of great uncertainty for us all. But if you want to direct your anger and frustration somewhere, can I suggest the LVRPA … Continue reading →

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Object to unparalleled noise next to the Waterworks Nature Reserve

Posted on 21 February 2020 by SLMAdmin

Object to a loud dance music festival at the Waterworks! If you think, like we do, that a festival that aims to ‘deliver the volume and sound pressure proper dance music deserves’ is inappropriate next door to a nature reserve … Continue reading →

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East London Waterworks Park

Posted on 23 November 2019 by SLMAdmin

Campaigners reveal vision for wild swimming in Waltham Forest Save Lea Marshes and CPRE London have joined forces to campaign to transform the historic filter beds on Lea Bridge Road, once used by Thames Water, into a place for wild … Continue reading →

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East London Waterworks Park

Posted on 23 November 2019 by SLMAdmin

Save the Lea Bridge Waterworks Hidden behind high fences, trashed by Thames Water, sold without consultation. There has been a conspiracy of silence to rob the people of East London of the Lea Bridge Waterworks, a site of huge historical … Continue reading →

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Thames Water site – last chance to object to the plans

Posted on 27 October 2018 by pjm

After 18 months of tinkering and shenanigans, it now seems likely that the extraordinary plans to build the “Athena  Primary Academy” and “Barclay Secondary Free School” on the Thames Water site, Lea Bridge Road, will soon go before Waltham Forest … Continue reading →

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Aural impact

Posted on 30 August 2018 by pjm

This Save Lea Marshes blog is about sounds. We are contrasting the sounds of birds with noise generated by a primary school at a similar distance from the area we seek to protect. The birdsong is currently experienced as you … Continue reading →

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