by Alicia Pivaro | Aug 1, 2018 | Event, Sustainability
An evening of sustainability talks and discussion were held at Omved Gardens on 7 July. Each speaker was given five minutes to present their work around issues including bees, pesticides, seed collection and food security. The event was organised by OmVed Gardens,...
by Simon Briscoe | Jan 30, 2018 | Sustainability, Traffic & Transport
We have two – only two! – bike hangars in the Forum area. Are they a good thing? One hangar (on Hillcrest) is reportedly well-used while the other (on Winchester Road) is not. The lack of hangars is odd as, as the map shows, there are hundreds east of...
by Simon Briscoe | Jan 3, 2018 | Sustainability
Two major transport themes in the Forum’s work in 2018 will be buses and parking. A core on these issues is pollution: Highgate High Street, Highgate Hill and Archway Road have above legal levels of air pollution. This blog sets out the background and summarises...
by Simon Briscoe | Jul 21, 2017 | Sustainability
The Highgate community crowd-funded a second air quality survey and this blog presents the results. The main conclusions: 1. Highgate’s main thoroughfares still have illegal levels of (NO2) air pollution. 2. Overall air quality has not changed in the last year – where...
by Simon Briscoe | Mar 7, 2017 | Sustainability
Thanks to the generosity of Highgate residents we were able to collect enough money to have a second round of air quality testing. We have spent the last few days putting up sensors. We will have the results in about six weeks. The results of last year’s...
by Simon Briscoe | Nov 9, 2016 | Sustainability
Highgate’s main roads have illegal and health-damaging levels of air pollution according to the first set of results from the community’s survey. The readings are summarised in the map which allocates each result to one of five categories: purple pins show the...
