Come and celebrate Hackney council passing a Right to Grow motion! Wednesday March 4th! 6-7pm outside the town hall!
Bring banners, placards and veg to wave!
Hackney Council Town Hall – Wednesday March 4th – 6-7pm
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2 responses to “Hackney Council Town Hall – Wednesday March 4th – 6-7pm”
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Your website seems to be missing one key element … where is the motion that is going to be agreed upon? I can’t find it …
Is it too late to suggest ammendments?
There are two related issues that I have been lobbying my councillors about;
a) The right of LBH tenants to grow plants higher than 2m in their gardens. LBH is by far the biggest landowner in Hackney. Much of that land is tied up in social housing. Currently, the tenants agreements limits us to only growing below 2m, which means that we can’t grow fruit trees or climbers. Removing that*, and prioritising growing greenery of all sorts would greatly increase the borough’s living biomass and provide food.
Hackney Housing has, in general, an anti-nature attitude and does exercise its right to forcibly cut down trees and eradicate gardens.
* (Obviously within reasonable limits).
b) Rewards for tenants who choose to green their gardens instead of concrete, tile or astroturf over them, and invest their time and energy maintaining them.
This has been explored by experts and papers can be found about it online. Financial inducements should be made to those who are willing to do so; and, in reverse and to balance the council’s books, costs past on to those who don’t or choose to cover them over, respective to the benefits to society greening/growing has, and the costs to the society that covering over has.
A simple, say, 20% off council tax for greening a garden, and 20% surcharge for covering over with concrete slabs or, increasingly, full roofs in order to create addition living space.
Obviously this is just a short introduction but you should be able to understand the issues raised.
Thank you.
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