Gr8 to be out on the @wflabour.bsky.social #Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep 🌹this AM in the glorious spring sunshine☀️! Lots of really positive 💬! Thanx to @miriammirwitch.bsky.social Cllr Rhiannon Elgin & Georgina for helping. @lgalabour.bsky.social
It was lovely to be out on the #LabourDoorstep this morning in sunny Leytonstone for the fab Cllrs @labourstone.bsky.social, Jenny Gray and Marie Pye.
Great to speak to residents about local issues and @wflabour.bsky.social! #VoteLabour
Rain🌧️ did not stop play out on the @wflabour.bsky.social #Leytonstone #LabourDoorstep🌹 this AM. Lots of gr8 chat💬 with local residents! @calvinbailey.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @miriammirwitch.bsky.social @shumonalirahman.bsky.social @kira.social
New accessible pavement around trees with cycle parking and seating
New accessible paving
Loving our new accessible pavements replacing parking, daylighting with cycle parking and informal play/seating.
Fantastic to see thanks to @labourstone.bsky.social @kira.social @shumonalirahman.bsky.social @wfcouncil
#BlisterPack #Recycling♻️ returns today in #Leytonstone #Walthamstow #Chingford Libraries, as Waltham Forest Council leads & pioneers in identifying #Recycling♻️ solutions for ‘difficult’ packaging. @lgalabour.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @miriammirwitch.bsky.social
A Parklet with a picture of Robert Burns and Slainte Mhath written in chalk
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns
Further confirmation that traffic reduction measures don’t affect high street spending. #PedestrianPound
www.centreforcities.org/blog/ulez-ex...
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It's partly because of programmes such as RIS2 that we have to spend money retrofitting local streets to try to mitigate the impacts of climate change; but it is something we have to do now anyway.
#BringIt the #NLWA #ReusableRevolution Campaign has been launched in #WalthamForest! Thanx to the support of local businesses!
@wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social @miriammirwitch.bsky.social @kira.social @lgalabour.bsky.social
Works on the 1st section of the #WalthamForest #Flood Resilience Scheme incl. #RainGardens in #WadleyRdE11 is nearing completion. Here's some pics. charting progress. Resurfacing early next wk on this section & works begin on 2nd half later next wk. @wflabour.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social
So despite all the fuss and noise, new data shows that the ULEZ expansion hasn’t hurt high street spending - it’s just helped clean up London’s air 💚
www.centreforcities.org/blog/ulez-ex...
It was 'Bright n Breezy' out on the @wflabour.bsky.social🌹
#Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep yesterday AM. Lots of gr8 chat 💬 with local residents & plenty of support for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social🌹!
@lgalabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @calvinbailey.bsky.social
Crackin 1st @wflabour.bsky.social🌹 @lgalabour.bsky.social🌹 @teamlabouruk.bsky.social🌹
#Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep of ‘25 with @calvinbailey.bsky.social to kick off @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
#NationalCampaignWeekend
this AM. Lots of really gr8 chat 💬 & positive support!
Gr8 to see #LBWalthamForest joining the #NLWA #BringIt #ReusableRevolution to combat single use plastic!
@wflabour.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @mikehakata.bsky.social @adamdkharrison.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social
www.nlwa.gov.uk/news/waltham...
A terraced street with parking removed and rain gardens installed both sides
Esther Road in Waltham Forest was subject to bad flooding in 2021.
Parking out, rain gardens in. Beautiful, urban cooling, mental health boosting, biodiverse, flood mitigating awesomeness.
@labourstone.bsky.social @meristemdesign.bsky.social
#healthystreets #healthystreets4hhlp
Busy #Leytonstone Cllrs Surgery. Site visit to see sheet ice 🥶 originating from a developers site impacting #pedestrians #cyclists. A difficult housing case, a #flytipper trying to avoid paying an FPN & a #recycling ♻️ refuse-nik, who turned up to return his caddy liners 🤷! @wflabour.bsky.social
Always good to catch up with #Leytonstones fav & best #Barber💈/ Hair Stylist Costa in ‘Mario’s’ for a #ChristmasTrim & #BarbersChair💈 Banter😉🫢🤫! Wot a #Leytonstone & Waltham Forest #Legend Costa is! @lgalabour.bsky.social
@calvinbailey.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social
‘Christmas🎄Cuppa with a Cllr’ Fri. 6th Dec.- 1030- 1130AM
-Leytonstone Library. Clyde🎅, Jenny🧑🎄 & Marie🤶 would like to invite Leytonstone Ward residents to join them for a bit of Christmas Chat🎄, a ☕️ ,& a mince 🥧!
Clyde, Marie & Jenny
🎄☃️🎅🎄☃️🧑🎄🎄☃️🤶
@lgalabour.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social
So it’s Heidi Alexander replacing Lou Haigh…seems a promising appointment for safety and active travel. What do people think? www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Securing ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ payments was part of @wflabour.bsky.social ‘22 Manifesto. So after years of dither & delay by Tory Govs., this is a big initial step forward by DeFRA SoS Steve Reed & our new @UKLabour Government. My NLWA statement here👇!
www.nlwa.gov.uk/news/nlwa-ca...
Pleased to see my friend & colleague @heidialexander.bsky.social
as the new SoS for Transport. Heidi understands the opportunities for #activetravel🚶♀️➡️🚲🛴 in helping improve our own health & wellbeing, as well as that of our towns, cities & our planet 🌍! @wflabour.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social
Crackin' @wflabour.bsky.social #Leytonstone #LabourDoorStep this AM in the glorious winter su☀️! Lots of people talking about the need to reconsult on expanding the nearby #SchoolStreet! We'll see what we can do! @graciemaew.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @kira.social @ahsankhan9.bsky.social
1.3 million journeys a day!
1.3 MILLION JOURNEYS A DAY!!!
New data release from Transport for London today shows cycling in London is going up, and up and up. tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/new-tfl...
We campaign, we deliver, London wins.
Gr8 to get a progress update yesterday on Waltham Forest Councils 12 month #CoffeeCup #Recycling♻️ Scheme operating in our Town Centres across the borough. We’ve collected via our fab barrow crews 0.64 tonnes of used coffee cups- roughly 16,000- to be #recycled♻️ into paper. @wflabour.bsky.social
💥London’s cycling boom continues💥
📈New data shows bike journeys in the capital are up 26% since 2019 to 1.33m every day 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🥳💚💚
We’ll keep work with boroughs to make more streets safer and enable even more Londoners to get around on 2 (or 3) wheels 🚲🙂🚲
Gr8 to welcome @metecoban92.bsky.social, Sem Moema GLA, @graciemaew.bsky.social @ahsankhan9.bsky.social to Sutherland Rd, E17 today to unveil 'probably' the world's longest #RainGarden in a residential street- incl. 68 🌳's & plenty of plants!
@wflabour.bsky.social @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social
With 1000 public #EVCPs⚡️in Waltham Forest🌳, we now have one of the highest number of any local council in the UK. So pleased to have that recognised with this award last nite! @wflabour.bsky.social @graciemaew.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social
Busy & chilly 🥶 48hrs out on the #LabourDoorStep in Grove Green & Leytonstone Wards in Waltham Forest- lots of great 💬- & Jubilee Ward in Enfield with @graciemaew.bsky.social
supporting fab. Ian Barnes in the By- Election on Thurs. 28th Nov. #VoteLabour🌹@lgalabour.bsky.social @wflabour.bsky.social
LTN delivered last year in The Lloyd Park area has transformed the neighborhood and provided a safer, cleaner and greener school run. Great work by @labourstone.bsky.social Waltham Forest Council Cllr's, residents and campaigners.
