Transition Heathrow is a grassroots action group working to build resilient Heathrow communities, capable of collectively coping with the injustices and threats of climate change and peak oil.
Heathrow campaigners win first step in fight to rejuvenate 3rd runway site
Heathrow residents and activists are celebrating today following the adjournment of the court case that was seeking to evict the squatted community garden project ‘Grow Heathrow’, set up on the site of the defeated third runway. The case has been adjourned to the Central London County Court after the Deputy District Judge ruled that higher authority was needed to rule on the case.
Transition Heathrow member Jo Rake, 21, said:
“We are celebrating todays ruling as a step towards rebuilding the Heathrow communities that were blighted for so long by the threat of airport expansion. The number of people who turned up at court today, from local residents to airport workers and activists, showed the importance of this project for the Heathrow communities, and also the wider campaign for food security. David Cameron talks about building a ‘big society’, we’re already doing it”.
Over the past six months, the former Berkeley Nurseries site has been transformed from a derelict space to a thriving community garden and social space, playing host to a range of events, from a banquet and film screenings, to acting as a base for solidarity actions for striking airport workers.
Local MP John McDonnell said:
“This inspirational project has not only dramatically improved this derelict site but it has lifted the morale of the whole local community in the campaign against the third runway and in planning a sustainable future for our area. We cannot lose this inititiave and I will do all I can to enable it to continue.”
Many of the activists involved in Transition Heathrow have a background of taking direct action with Plane Stupid, and have stated that “they don’t intend to go without a fight”.
We are now based at our Grow Heathrow site so for directions please check out below
From Central London: Travel to West Drayton in TfL zone 6 in 20 minutes by train from Paddington. From West Drayton either take the 222 bus towards Hounslow and get off in Sipson Village or follow the cycle path towards Sipson. Our site is a 1 minute walk from the King William Pub which is in the middle of town.
Full address:
Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, West Drayton, UB7 0JG
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