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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.

Report from the Climate Show with Tom Heap.

Kay FitzHerbert cuts the 50-year commemorative cake, assisted by BRCS President, Nic Ferriday and Laura Bacon, wildlife photographer and BRCS member [Photo: Richard Carter] The Brent River & Canal Society (BRCS), which successfully campaigned for the creation of the Brent River Park in the 1970s, marked its 50th anniversary this week. Its AGM was held at […]

The Brent River and Canal Society welcomes Ealing Council’s proposed expansion of the Brent River Park, a Regional Park since its creation in 1975 and officially recognised as such by the Council in 2009. We are delighted to see that Ealing Council has taken on board our suggestions to extend the Brent River Park, as made […]

All Brent River & Canal Society members are warmly invited to our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 19th September. Come and find out more about our nature campaigns and current issues including Clean Up the River Brent, Warren Farm Nature Reserve and the Local Plan – all of which are busy safeguarding wildlife and keeping […]