Colvestone Community

A community group in the heart of Dalston. Community building, community gardening and greener streets 4 all #21stCenturyStreet

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

Thank you so much for the donations to the Colvestone Parklet. In just over 24 hours we have enough to cover the insurance! 💚🌸❤️🌺💚

[Possible @_wearepossible]

Our friends at @playingout have written in support of our parklets campaign. Their guide shows us how we can reclaim street space from cars, for people to enjoy.

Check it out ⬇️📍
https://t.co/kxRXjceywI

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

@hackneycouncil @RidleyRd please can stalls not be left on the pavement blocking it for pedestrians. Did not used to be done so no reason to start now. Thanks ☺️

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

The usual shouting and tooting this morning as several vans and around ten cars are all jostling fir space down the middle of our street. Where is our 21st Century Street? 😥@HackneyLivingSt @mayorofhackney

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

Thanks @hackneycouncil enforcement offices for working to reduce traffic congestion and pollution on our street. Great to see action on this after our meeting with @metecoban92

[Loving Dalston @LovingDalston]

The sooner @Hackneycouncil introduces its pro-health scheme for Colvestone Crescent in #Dalston, the better for the health of pupils at the nearby primary school, not to mention passers-by of all ages

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

Can someone please INTERVIEW THE CHILDREN rather than the olds on their opinion of #LTN's, how they would like the roads and their concerns about the ability to walk and cycle to school safely?

It is their future

@BBCJustinR @carltonreid @BBCTomEdwards

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

Sun's out, ramp's out. Local kids doing what they should be doing: hanging out in the street after school without fear of being driven at. Next to a filter in De Beauvoir, it's a safe space. @HackneyLivingSt @metecoban92  @hackney_cycling @PollyBillington

[Mums For Lungs @MumsForLungs]

We recently redesigned our #Idling flyer. You can download a digital version 👇. Please share widely!
#AirPollution #NO2Idling
https://t.co/JyLOUh5Swp

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

Have any fines been made? @hackneycouncil This is people with engines on just in front of the signs which say idling damages you g lungs?

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

Out on the street doing a bit of pruning to bring this bike parking back into use. Does not feel great to have a car either side of me with idling engines on for over 20 min @HackneyLivingSt @mayorofhackney

[Leo Murray @[email protected] @crisortunity]

"So a re-grouping of us have set up the @LondonParklet campaign. We want a simple, bottom up approach that lets people repurpose their streets for things other than storage of cars. We would love you to join us!"

[Leo Murray @[email protected] @crisortunity]

"One of the things we have discovered in Hackney during covid is that in a lower mobility world where people are staying closer to the places where they live, you need to provide good amenities!"

[Leo Murray @[email protected] @crisortunity]

"Once we build them in, these things will be so popular with residents that nobody will want to go back to giving up the space for car parking"

[Leo Murray @[email protected] @crisortunity]

"We are building in 40% canopy cover for the street, and building in EV charge points, secure and semi-secure bike parking, and provision for car clubs so people can still have access to cars without needing to own one"

[Leo Murray @[email protected] @crisortunity]

"Looking at our climate targets, our air pollution targets, the first stage of our 21st C Streets programme removes 100m of hard standing and replaces it with a public park immediately in front of a primary school that is deficient in outside space"

[Leo Murray @[email protected] @crisortunity]

"Now they are leading to more - parklets became a catalyst for something much bigger in Hackney. @CParklet is to become the borough's first 21st Century Street!"

[Sarah 🍓 @SarahJ_Berry]

Would you support a campaign to take back 25% of London’s streets from cars by 2025?

[muf architecture/art @MUFarchitecture]

Calling for #asummerofplay suggest @educationgovuk reads @timrgill timrgill book.
When playgrounds were shut - photograph #johnsturrock summer 2020 originally for @TheDeveloperUK

[Colvestone Community @CParklet]

Set children free: are playgrounds a form of incarceration. Fantastic piece on why radicalism is needed in rethinking children’s lives. We already had an epidemic of childhood unhappiness #streetparksforstmarks https://t.co/ipf0T1MSfA

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we realize the kind of people places that are possible where cars used to be. Example — #Amsterdam’s Elandsgracht between 2014 & 2019, via @schlijper’s great pics.