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Aileen Hammond: Belsize and Camden councillor obituary | Hampstead Highgate Express

This meant defying the party whip, but she survived to continue fighting for her constituents. “Aileen and the rebels were right and I was wrong,” said Phil Turner, a member of the council’s leadership at the time. Both libraries survived.  In recent years, her belief in the vital importance of education led Aileen to initiate and run for ten years a very successful children’s competition to improve the environment on behalf of the Camden Civic Society.  At the Safer Neighbourhoods Board, she spoke against some of the more arbitrary aspects of policing in the borough and was an advocate of fairness in the application of stop and search policies.  

Obituary: Aileen Hammond, rebel without a faction who did what felt right to save our libraries

She was fun to be with, and never boring, with all sorts of insights into life Aileen Hammond was a councillor in Belsize AILEEN Hammond, who has died aged 82, was a force of nature, a passionate believer in social justice who was never afraid to speak out or take practical action. A feisty former Belsize ward councillor, Aileen worked tirelessly for the Labour Party, of which she was a lifelong member, and for the Co-operative Party, as well as energetically involving herself with other local organisations, including the Camden Civic Society, the Safer Neighbourhoods Panel and the Belsize Society. “Aileen was not an ambitious person,” said John Saynor, a friend and comrade.

Aileen Hammond, rebel without a faction who did what felt right to save our libraries

Aileen Hammond, rebel without a faction who did what felt right to save our libraries
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Dorothea Hackman on HS2 and Euston Square | Hampstead Highgate Express

Euston Square Gardens under HS2 eviction - Credit: Dorothea Hackman Our nightmare neighbour High Speed 2 is “a judge in its own cause”: Assurances of mitigations for all the damage they do to our community and up the line were given to parliament before the bill was passed in February, but HS2 are the ones to receive complaints and they brush them off. And their owner, the Department of Transport are equally dismissive. Weeks or months later the matter could go to a Commissioner, but the damage is already done. So there is no way to hold HS2 to account over assurances. Camden Council has only just reported two possible breaches after residents have endured a year and a half of appalling demolitions, and HS2 has decided to cut down all 500 trees in the Adelaide Road Woodland – a Grade 1 site of importance for nature conservation (SINC) instead of the three hundred they told the House of Lords. And they haven’t completed the legally required tree and ecological surveys and t

Camden meeting on Euston tree felling by HS2 | Hampstead Highgate Express

Dorothea Hackman, Camden Civic Society Published: 8:59 AM December 16, 2020    Updated: 9:21 AM December 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protest against the HS2 project - Credit: PA Wire/PA Images This is urgent as High Speed 2 will continue felling Euston Trees within weeks.  Attend the Covid secure community meeting convened by Camden Civic Society, and sign the petition: Save Euston Trees from High Speed 2 (HS2) 6-8pm, on Thursday, December 17 at St Pancras Church Euston Road NW1 2BA - Facebook and please sign the petition.  At the HS2 quarterly “engagement” meeting Euston Community Representatives Group (ECRG) on December 1, community concerns were brushed aside. Big national infrastructure is built at a cost, and we are paying it for no benefit. HS2 has stopped even pretending to engage and mollify us.

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