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Brent River Park charity Special Adviser, Kabir Kaul, has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the King’s Birthday Honours, for services to Nature. Kabir’s BEM recognises his environmental advocacy since 2018, a significant part of which includes his work in the Brent River Park in the Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Kabir joined the […]

Brentham Meadows. Photo by Ben Morris Ealing’s environmental organisations have condemned plans to erect a 17.5-metre telecoms mast on Brentham Meadows, a 9.5 acre meadow located in the Northern end of the Brent River Park in Ealing, London, warning the proposal threatens one of the UK’s most diminished habitats. The Brent River Park charity, Ealing […]

The Mayor and Kabir Kaul shake hands after unveiling the history sign – Credit: Jane Fernley, Ealing Parks Foundation The 50th anniversary of our Brent River Park was celebrated in style on Churchfields Recreation Ground in Hanwell on Sunday, 29th June. The date was exactly 50 years after the park was inaugurated on the same spot in […]

Report of our 50th Anniversary celebrations in Ealing News.

Brent Meadow photo credit: Derek Pratt On Sunday 29th June, our Brent River Park charity, with the support of Ealing Council, will be holding an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the park. The date marks exactly 50 years since the Brent River Park was inaugurated by our founder, Luke FitzHerbert and the then Mayor […]

LBC’s James O’Brien interviews Jim Waterson about his investigation into the seven housing blocks discharging sewage straight into the Rivers Brent and Crane. Jim’s investigation was triggered by a series of FoI requests carried out by Clean Up the River Brent (CURB) and Friends of the River Crane Environment (Force) which first exposed the problem.

A group of 50 members from the Clean Up the River Brent campaign (CURB) joined tens of thousands of protesters on the March for Clean Water in central London on Sunday. The demonstration, organised by the charity River Action, was called to protest about the shocking level of pollution in Britain’s waterways and to demand that […]

A group of anti-pollution campaigners has walked the entire length of the River Brent to raise money for urgently needed scientific water quality testing. The 26-mile walk, dubbed ‘The Brentathon’, took the team from the river’s source in Barnet to where it joins the Thames at Brentford.  The route took the campaigners through the woodlands, […]

The Brent River & Canal Society (BRCS) has expressed serious concern about Ealing Council’s proposal to build 295 flats next to Gurnell Leisure Centre, for two main reasons: The proposed development would see four blocks built to the East of the proposed new leisure centre, West of Peal Gardens and North of Ruislip Road East.  […]

Millennium Maze, Brent Lodge Park in the Brent River Park – photograph by Johnny Clifford What is the Local Plan and why is it so important?   Take a look out of your window or go for a walk to the end of your road. Much of what you see around you is where it is […]

Ealing Council has launched a consultation on its proposal for a Regional Park. While the Brent River & Canal Society is broadly in favour of the idea and fully supports the extension of the Brent River Park, we are concerned that some of the suggestions contained in the consultation could increase the risk of flooding […]

Clean Up the River Brent (CURB) has produced a new factsheet giving details of the Brent Monitoring project. (See earlier article for the background.) The factsheet can be downloaded here.