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Globe Town Market Square with fruit and veg stall.
Environment Local News 

Setting the record straight about whether Globe Town Market Square will become a car park

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Locals call for better communication as a public notice on a lamppost left the community feeling confused and disappointed at

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Environment Local News 

Petition launched to make Bow Roundabout safer and prettier

January 14, 2023January 16, 2023 Alice Bourne 0 Comments News

A campaign has been launched to improve Bow roundabout by making it safer for pedestrians and more attractive for residents.

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Chisenhale Primary School from the corner of Chisenhale Road and Vivian Road, showing its outside play space with bollards and fences.
Environment Local News 

How the Chisenhale Play Space became the symbol for saving School Streets

November 12, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 2 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

After scenes of schoolchildren seeing off the council’s attempt at removing the Chisenhale Play Space went viral, local residents and

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D3 bus, Bethnal Green.
Environment Local News 

Petition to save Tower Hamlets D3 and D7 bus routes presented to TfL

November 3, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Transport for London’s proposed cuts threaten popular Tower Hamlets bus routes D3 and D7. A petition to protect Tower Hamlets

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School Streets restrictions sign on Chisenhale Road, Bow.
Environment Local News 

Mayor Rahman removes Chisenhale School Streets today ‘without consultation’

October 27, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

A scheme to close the roads around Chisenhale Primary School during drop off and pick up is to be removed

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two women stand in the canal club community garden
Environment Local News 

Canal Club Community Centre and Garden saved from demolition

October 16, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 1 Comment News

After a tiresome four years campaigning, gardeners, artists, boat dwellers and nature lovers welcome the return of their community centre

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Caroline Meadows, Shaheena Parvin, Jane Harris, Simon Ramsay and Nathalie Bienfait outside council meeting debating Save our Safer Streets petition outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall.
Environment Local News 

Petition to reinstate Liveable Streets Scheme rejected by Tower Hamlets Council 

October 7, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

Save our Streets petition of 3,094 people rejected by Aspire Councillors who cite ongoing consultations, vowing to be an administration

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Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Plan Area amended boundaries
Environment Local News 

Neighbourhood Referendum: The most important local elections you’ll vote in

September 22, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 1 Comment Neighbourhood Plan, News

Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Plan: nothing to do with Liveable Streets and everything to do with giving local people a

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Old Bethnal Green Road pocket park with cyclist
Environment Local News 

Liveable Streets campaign group launch crowd funder for legal challenge to Tower Hamlets Council

September 7, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 4 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

Save Our Safer Streets is preparing for a potential legal challenge to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s pledge to reverse Liveable Streets

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protestors walking with placards 'No to a12 traffic' walking along Tredegar Road, Bow, East London
Environment Local News 

Protest and petition: Bow residents protest against the council’s desire to reverse liveable streets

July 18, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

Hundreds of residents voice their concern at the council’s proposal to reverse the Liveable Streets schemes. Bow residents took to

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Computer generated image of proposed Business and Management building on Queen Mary University's Mile End campus.
Environment Local Local economy News 

Queen Mary University proposes a new six-storey building development

February 10, 2022December 14, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Local people are submitting feedback for Queen Mary University’s proposal for its new School of Business and Management building on

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Bow Colours mural in Malmesbury Road, Bow, East London
Environment Local News 

New colourful mural celebrating diversity unveiled in Bow

January 26, 2022December 14, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments News

A new mural has been unveiled in Bow, celebrating the diverse communities who call Bow home. Bow Bells, Bow Church,

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