Ripple Effect

Resident group based in Barking. We campaign to ensure displacement by design and densification does not ruin the lives and wellbeing of local residents.

[Thames Life @thameslifecdt]

Density without social infrastructure is unbalanced and unhealthy. More concrete = more carbon emissions #riseup

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

On a light hearted note, Members of the Ripple Effect Group and a guest, took part in a butterfly count on the Footpath 47 This weekend, near the 'Drum and Point'. How lovely! @footpath47

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

Thames Life are hosting a Residents' Charter Launch on 17th July. Presenting community and partnership solutions to local issues. The charter contains asks or demands for, and co-created by local residents for a fairer vision and reality for Barking Riverside.

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@MattLismore delivering some shocking facts about Housing rent prices in Barking and Dagenham at an event with @justspace7 @EstateWatch_LDN @thameslifecdt

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An expert example from @lbbdcouncil risking lives to save money and extort rental capital

[NLC - KATIE KENDRICK OBE - LEASEHOLD CAMPAIGNER @NLC_2019]

Balconies 'risk to life from start' on £41m estate ‼️‼️

"This is one of the poorest designs I've seen in my life. Critical drainage features were missing."

@guy_lynn @lbbdcouncil @mtpennycook @BBCLondonNews
https://t.co/rO6KN2XqrO

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

This is unacceptable @MayorofLondon. Address the crisis that you are selling London off to private investment and and encouraging leasehold costs which are wholly unreasonable. Its not a housing crisis. Its a mayoral crisis.

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

@barkingriver @lbbdcouncil @MayorofLondon @RippleEffect Thanks for your message. We’re aware of your contact with the Footpath 47 group, though our understanding is that responses have happened. We continue to welcome a formal meeting with an agenda to discuss these issues constructively and are awaiting a reply.

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

This is what resident power looks like. Save Footpath 47. We do not need BRL to change this unique wildlife space, and we need assurances this will not happen. @barkingriver @lbbdcouncil @MayorofLondon. What do you have to say?

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

@EstateWatch_LDN @MattLismore @thameslifecdt @justspace7 Voices for Housing Justice. @lbbdcouncil @BDReside @MayorofLondon Residents have questions and concerns regarding housing, rents, and leasehold service charges in LBBD. We need meaningful engagement- when and how long?

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

This is unacceptable @MayorofLondon. Address the crisis that you are selling London off to private investment and and encouraging leasehold costs which are wholly unreasonable. Its not a housing crisis. Its a mayoral crisis.

[Just Space @justspace7]

Sadiq Khan was willing to downgrade environmental and other standards to deliver 880,000 new homes (which won’t bring down rents or prices), if the govt funds new transport infrastructure and social housing

But Reeves said NO new money! What should he do?
https://t.co/ttY9KdfwT5

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

https://t.co/oRCcI6fD7r

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Could this be the end of Footpath 47!?

"Following completion of the works and subject to the necessary approvals, Footpath 47 will be diverted back along the foreshore"

Only if the necessary approvals go through.

[Matt Lismore @MattLismore]

If you can’t maintain your housing stock to a safe, liveable standard, it should be confiscated.

After the 2008 financial crisis, the banks were made to prioritise the wider society and economy by regulations - with huge fines if they failed to do so.

We need the same now in housing - no housing bosses should be eligible for bonuses and pay rises while their tenants live in squalor.

This isn’t a Charles Dickens novel, it’s Britain in 2025 and it is sickening.

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

Starting this Monday for Barking Riverside Residents! Please join

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Loss of more green spaces in favour of housing development? We cannot go on in this way.

https://t.co/Kg58PjJDjq

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A report by Dr. Pablo Sendra from UCL stating why community and social infrastructure in Thames View and Riverside.

It disseminates issues on green open spaces, community centres and potential monetary gains earned as part of the BRL development

https://t.co/dqBGLwLzNe

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

The new Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a threat to green open spaces, including the Green Belt. Please read this article and think about how this can change things across the UK and in your local area. More discussion is needed.

https://t.co/MYwI75JDpc

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The View from the Shoreline at night.

Looks like the incinerators across the river from Footpath 47 are contributing to some heavy pollution...

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The view from the otherside of the Footpath.

How long will the Footpath remain as a green open space? The Footpath is currently being diverted. Shout us out in case you want to keep it the same.

[Ripple Effect @bdrippleeffect]

https://t.co/hEsvN8ocRw

Moving pieces of film from Granville's Community Kitchen through the work of Tim Cowbury and Mark Maughan.

The memories of places we live, people we love and times well spent can leave us we are not carefully preserving and safeguarding them.