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Invitation to Participate in LSE Study on Density
It is hard to find land in London to build on. One suggestion is to increase density – to allow more to be built on a piece of land.
To this end, my colleagues and I at the London School of Economics have put together a survey to better understand what Outer London residents think about this.
The survey can be accessed by clicking on the link below and then, after having read the instructions, by clicking ‘Continue’. It consists of two parts. The first is a short questionnaire and the second contains a series of images for the participant to respond to.
More detailed information, including a consent form, can be found on the survey’s introduction page.
Participants are encouraged to complete the survey by May 31. Responses will be anonymous.
If there are any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email: j.g.karlsson@lse.ac.uk.
Link to the survey: https://urban-experiment.com/share/jzx8JB
75th Anniversary of VE Day
Seventy-five years ago on 8th May 1945 the country joyously came together and celebrated, long into the night, the end of WW2 in Europe, VE Day. In the days that followed, Union Jacks were hung from windows and street parties abounded. The Union Jack, pictured above, is a survival from that time being the very one which hung from our window on that momentous occasion, joining all the others in Barmouth Road.
No longer was life to be lived between air-raids, governed by listening for the warning siren when you made for the nearest air-raid shelter desperately hoping that you and yours would be safe and that your home would escape any falling bombs and then breathing a sigh of relief at hearing the siren heralding the ‘All Clear’.
This photograph of one such celebration featured in our Autumn magazine 2018, a fancy dress party and competition at Monks Orchard Primary School, where the children proudly showed off their costumes made with whatever their mothers had managed to find and put together in that time of ‘make do and mend’.
JOAN PRING
Trading Standards – Cold Caller Alert
Green Spaces in Monks Orchard – Parkfields
Many of us are taking our daily exercise in our local parks, woods and open spaces, but how much do you know about our local green spaces?
Read about the history of Parkfields in the final part our three-part series on Green Spaces in Monks Orchard.
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