Page 11 - Dorothea Hackman News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Dorothea Hackman, Camden Civic Society Published: 8:45 AM March 6, 2021    HS2 protesters at Euston Station - Credit: Dorothea Hackman When the Euston Tree Protectors camp was established on August 28, 2020, High Speed 2 (HS2) wanted Euston Square Gardens East for their temporary taxi parking area in September. At the HS2 tree panel we had won a reprieve for the two largest trees, in the north and east, and the House of Lords had told them to leave the trees along the south, Euston Road side, but they planned to fell the trees in the west and the middle. Aside from hurting our community by ...

Euston Square Gardens under HS2 eviction - Credit: Dorothea Hackman Our nightmare neighbour High Speed 2 is “a judge in its own cause”: Assurances of mitigations for all the damage they do to our community and up the line were given to parliament before the bill was passed in February, but HS2 are the ones to receive complaints and they brush them off. And their owner, the Department of Transport are equally dismissive. Weeks or months later the matter could go to a Commissioner, but the damage is already done. So there is no way to hold HS2 to account over assurances. Camden Council has ...

Volunteers from Euston Foodbank have seen their number of users treble - Credit: Helena Aksentijevic Foodbanks are preparing for a rise in demand following the new national Covid-19 lockdown.   Centres have witnessed a growing number of users during the pandemic as some residents’ social and economic circumstances have reached breaking point.  The Trussell Trust foodbank network distributed more than 1.2 million emergency food parcels between April to September last year – a 47% increase that represented its busiest ever six-month period. The charity warned the figures were “just t...

Dorothea Hackman, Camden Civic Society Published: 8:59 AM December 16, 2020    Updated: 9:21 AM December 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protest against the HS2 project - Credit: PA Wire/PA Images This is urgent as High Speed 2 will continue felling Euston Trees within weeks.  Attend the Covid secure community meeting convened by Camden Civic Society, and sign the petition: Save Euston Trees from High Speed 2 (HS2) 6-8pm, on Thursday, December 17 at St Pancras Church Euston Road NW1 2BA - Facebook and please sign the petition.  At the HS2 quarterly “engagement” meeting Euston Communit...