Ripple Effect

Density without social infrastructure is unbalanced and unhealthy. More concrete = more carbon emissions #riseup

On a light hearted note, Members of the Ripple Effect Group and a guest, took part in a butterfly count on the Footpath 47 This weekend, near the 'Drum and Point'. How lovely! @footpath47

Thames Life are hosting a Residents' Charter Launch on 17th July. Presenting community and partnership solutions to local issues. The charter contains asks or demands for, and co-created by local residents for a fairer vision and reality for Barking Riverside.

@MattLismore delivering some shocking facts about Housing rent prices in Barking and Dagenham at an event with @justspace7 @EstateWatch_LDN @thameslifecdt

An expert example from @lbbdcouncil risking lives to save money and extort rental capital

This is unacceptable @MayorofLondon. Address the crisis that you are selling London off to private investment and and encouraging leasehold costs which are wholly unreasonable. Its not a housing crisis. Its a mayoral crisis.

@barkingriver @lbbdcouncil @MayorofLondon @RippleEffect Thanks for your message. We’re aware of your contact with the Footpath 47 group, though our understanding is that responses have happened. We continue to welcome a formal meeting with an agenda to discuss these issues constructively and are awaiting a reply.

Hi @RippleEffect, thanks for your post. Designs for the foreshore have been shared with residents multiple times since Autumn 2024, and we have received a range of feedback. BRL has reached out to members of the FoFP47 group several times to arrange a meeting, but we have not heard back. If Ripple Effect would instead like to meet, please email us at info@barkingriverisde.london to arrange a time. You're also welcome to attend our next Community Conversation Time event, where we would be happy to discuss this again and provide reassurance.

This is what resident power looks like. Save Footpath 47. We do not need BRL to change this unique wildlife space, and we need assurances this will not happen. @barkingriver @lbbdcouncil @MayorofLondon. What do you have to say?

@EstateWatch_LDN @MattLismore @thameslifecdt @justspace7 Voices for Housing Justice. @lbbdcouncil @BDReside @MayorofLondon Residents have questions and concerns regarding housing, rents, and leasehold service charges in LBBD. We need meaningful engagement- when and how long?

Could this be the end of Footpath 47!? "Following completion of the works and subject to the necessary approvals, Footpath 47 will be diverted back along the foreshore" Only if the necessary approvals go through.

If you can’t maintain your housing stock to a safe, liveable standard, it should be confiscated. After the 2008 financial crisis, the banks were made to prioritise the wider society and economy by regulations - with huge fines if they failed to do so. We need the same now in housing - no housing bosses should be eligible for bonuses and pay rises while their tenants live in squalor. This isn’t a Charles Dickens novel, it’s Britain in 2025 and it is sickening.

Starting this Monday for Barking Riverside Residents! Please join

Loss of more green spaces in favour of housing development? We cannot go on in this way. theguardian.com/environment/20…

A report by Dr. Pablo Sendra from UCL stating why community and social infrastructure in Thames View and Riverside. It disseminates issues on green open spaces, community centres and potential monetary gains earned as part of the BRL development discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1019…

The new Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a threat to green open spaces, including the Green Belt. Please read this article and think about how this can change things across the UK and in your local area. More discussion is needed. wcl.org.uk/planning-refor…

The View from the Shoreline at night. Looks like the incinerators across the river from Footpath 47 are contributing to some heavy pollution...

The view from the otherside of the Footpath. How long will the Footpath remain as a green open space? The Footpath is currently being diverted. Shout us out in case you want to keep it the same.

yarrowfilms.co.uk/2023/10/27/a-t… Moving pieces of film from Granville's Community Kitchen through the work of Tim Cowbury and Mark Maughan. The memories of places we live, people we love and times well spent can leave us we are not carefully preserving and safeguarding them.