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Eco-village by Kew Bridge

Has anyone seen what is going on?

Leigh Stops ● 6358d18 Comments

They’ve arrived, accessed the site, pitched tents etc and have started to clean the site up. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooPICTURES POSTED ON THE FLICKR WEBSITE BY SOMEONE!

Jim Lawes ● 6358d

Jim Lawes ● 6358d

It seems the organised group assembled at Waterloo Station and travelled by train ...not to Kew Bridge Station, but to Brentford Station and then walked!Here's another video.

Jim Lawes ● 6358d

""KewEcoVillage: maybe arranging an offical open day in the next 2 weeks for local residents and people to come see what we are up to!""It's a good idea to see the story on the front page of TW8.com  and check out the website mentioned.

Jim Lawes ● 6358d

Something rather ironic about trespassers hosting an open day on someone else's land...

Adam Beamish ● 6358d

How do they support themselves financially? Do they leave each morning and return after work or are they scrounging off the benefits system ie supported by me and you

Ken Collins ● 6358d

Looking forward to it.I thoroughly enjoyed my afternnon at "PureGenius" in Wandsworth a few years back(pics at http://www.tlio.org.uk/campaigns/wandsworth/index.html ).Does anyone have any recollection of the guy who kept a herd of goats on the Kew Bridge land ? Or did I just dream it ?

Tim Henderson ● 6357d

Don't remember goats Tim...only some Midland Bank offices, the Plough Pub..and more recently the "dig" to expose historic basements..of a Brewery?

Jim Lawes ● 6357d

Do we really want to give these trespassers 'air-time' ?.I know in many ways it's a completely different thing Jim, but I do find it a little odd how on the one hand you're criticising the Keens (who as far as I'm aware having actually broken the rules, no matter how much I may disagree with the rules) and implying they have no respect for their constitutents etc, and then on the other you seem wholeheartedly behind this bunch who are committing a criminal offence, and when it comes to having to clear them from the land it'll be the resources of the police etc. that get 'wasted' dealing with these people.

Adam Beamish ● 6357d

Apologies, my previous post should say "haven't actually broken the rules".

Adam Beamish ● 6357d

I have often wondered about the wild life on sites such as this one - do the developers arrange an animal pick up to move as many of the insect life, birds and foxes, to another site or do they just bulldoze the lot?If they are having an open day maybe people should bring boxes with them and relocate some lady birds?Another reason for an environmental consultation as a part of the planning process?

Sarah Felstead ● 6357d

Correct, personally I think it should be a criminal offence, but yes you are correct at the current time it isn't.I'm not comfortable with the attitude shown by the editors on here though, I mean hiding behind the name 'green dragon' is against the protocol of this site and usually your posts would have removed very quickly.  Likewise the front page article practically embraces the arrival of the squattors.  So much for balanced debate and equal treatment for all !

Adam Beamish ● 6357d

One of those people used to have a stall outside Somerfield giving away vegetables seedlings to grow your own. Simon I think he's called.We had our school rebuild completely halted because of finding great crested newts - the newts had their own lawyers, thanks to the EU. Had to wait for the breeding season to end before we could re-home them.

Karen Adams ● 6356d

alas, yr bigger mistake is not the typo but the presumption that they have broken the law.... they haven't!!  But let's not allow details like that to get in the way!!The police have been regularly in touch and are happy with thing.  The head of police locally even popped round for a chat (out of his own personal interest as opposed to "warning them" about anything you presume them to have done wrong!)And before you ask, I am not "one of them", but I do believe in what they are doing - namely trying to use land that is sitting idle (and has done for years) to give something to the community, even if only for the shorter term, and demonstrating how it's possible to live in a more ecologically sound way.

Carl Irminger ● 6349d

Isn't it funny how some people rush to judgement??  Instead of leaping to conclusions, I went down there and spoke to some of the folk.  None of them are scrounging off the benfits system and they have other jobs of one form or another.You don't have to agree with what they are trying to do (which is tgrying to give something to the local community), but no need to show off your own prejudice.

Carl Irminger ● 6349d

It's a very small plot; I'm not sure what use it can be put to when it comes to building yet more tiny, overpriced flats.

Susan Kelly ● 6349d

Big enough for this Link to application

Ian Roberts ● 6349d

Carl, I got it wrong and I acknowledged that 'detail'.Nor am I being presumptive about the current occupants of the site, just not something I personally agree with.  Why don't these people, if they are so desperate to give something to the community and demonstrate how it's possible to live in a more ecologically sound way, do so in their own back gardens ?. 

Adam Beamish ● 6349d