Author: Sheila Peacock

BTN and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council invite you to the Green Week Community Network Evening on Tuesday 25th September (2018) at 6.30 pm at the Civic Offices on London Road (RG21 4AH).  We have speakers about protecting the whole environment, focusing on the “elements”, land, air and water, and you or your group can… Continue reading Green Week Community Networking Evening

Can the circular economy work? – a Stuff or Happiness conversation CafeSci-Basingstoke: Science & Tech Public Talks Monday, September 24, 2018, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM The Tea Bar, 9-13 London Street, Basingstoke RG21 7NT The speaker for the September 2018 meeting of Basingstoke Cafe Scientifique at The Tea Bar will be Prof Ian Williams,… Continue reading The Circular Economy – Café Scientifique special for Green Week!

Basingstoke Green Week is this September, starting on Saturday 22nd with stalls in Castle Square, The Malls, and with many highlights including Brookvale Sustainability Day on Saturday 29th at Brookvale Village Hall (12 noon to 4 pm). Get all the details from the GREENWEEK-fullprogramme brochure! Or bookmark https://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/green-week Repair Cafe at Green Week We are… Continue reading Basingstoke Green Week is coming!

Basingstoke Green Week is 22nd-29th September 2018 and we have a good programme of events shaping up – watch this space for details! As usual there will be stalls in Castle Square, The Malls, central Basingstoke (opposite the railway station) on Saturday 22nd September from 10 am until 4 pm.  We are looking for volunteers… Continue reading Green Week stall volunteers wanted Sat 22/9

“Air Pollution, Particulates and Health” is the title of a talk to be given to Basingstoke Café Scientifique by Dr Matthew Loxham, a Fellow in Respiratory Biology and Air Pollution Toxicology at the University of Southampton. He is coming to talk to us on Monday 21st May at the Tea Bar, London Street, Basingstoke 7.30… Continue reading Mon 21st May – “Air Pollution, Particulates and Health”

Basingstoke Transition Network’s 2018 AGM will take place on TUESDAY 15TH MAY at 7 pm at Market Chambers, Wote Street, RG21 7QE (entrance opposite the Camouflage Shop, just behind the Willis Museum). The AGM2018agenda includes a small change BTNconstitution13Jan2016proposedmods2018 to the constitution  BTNconstitution13Jan2016  to accommodate our observation of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We… Continue reading AGM 2018 on Tues 15th May

Proposals for service stations at Junction 6 and Junction 7 of the M3, close to Basingstoke, have been made.  Both Maria Miller, Basingstoke’s MP, and the Borough Council Labour Party are opposed to these proposals; so is Cycle Basingstoke. TWO petitions are doing the rounds.  One is an e-petition from Kim Taylor, Labour party, aimed… Continue reading Two M3 Service Station proposals

“SPD” stands for “Supplementary Planning Document”, and this one contains some really good aspirations that BTN supporters should welcome.  The point is that we need to SAY that we welcome them, by 4 pm on Monday 19th March https://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/planning-policy-consultations submit written comments by post to: Planning Policy Team, Civic Offices, London Road, Basingstoke, RG21 4AH.… Continue reading Borough Council’s Design and Sustainability SPD

We expect our local MP to think nationally and act locally.  Hence we pose to candidates almost the same questions as to Hampshire County candidates on 4th May: 1. Pollution The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) set out the dangerous impact of air pollution on… Continue reading General Election 2017 – queries for candidates

Hampshire Climate Action network has declared this June to be ‘Clean Air Month’. Want to know more? Please click here