Neighbourhood

Call to action!

Liveable Neighbourhood for Barnsbury Laycock – tell the Council what you want on Tuesday 15

After 2 years of waiting, finally, the Council are giving us our chance of a Liveable Neighbourhood. Liveable Neighbourhoods will have quiet, pleasant streets with

By Richenda Walford 10 Nov 2022

Engagement & design

Perspective from Offord Road

LTNs have been nothing if not divisive. Most can agree that lower traffic and less pollution is better for all. But to say that the

By Low Traffic Offord Road 26 May 2022

Liveable Islington

Report: Beat the Street

Rather lost in all the flurry of excitement over the local election results last week, you may not be aware that the Beat the Street project came to an end.

By John Hartley 21 May 2022

Events

Spring family walk (Barnsbury and Cross Street)

Rachael of Islington Clean Air Parents has teamed up with David of Footways London to share the benefits of walking in Islington, with an i-spy game for children to enjoy.

By Rachael Swynnerton 20 May 2022

Neighbourhood

💚 It's hard to go back 💚

Dr R points out that once we experience real change for better quality of life, it's hard to go back to living with traffic thundering at our front door.

By Guest Speaker 20 Apr 2022

Neighbourhood

Nurture: Spring Family Friendly Walk in Islington

Check out and participate in this Nurture: Spring walk, brought to you by ICAP and #inspiringsustainableislington

By Rachael Swynnerton 13 Mar 2022

Get informed

Islington: achieving climate change goals

Eilidh of #inspiringsustainableislington explains what Islington is doing to achieve its goals for positive climate change.

By Guest Speaker 5 Mar 2022

Issues

Response from the heart

Dear Islington Tribune: In the last 18 months of campaigning for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, I've been careful not to respond directly to any of the letters previously published in these pages which are against these schemes.

By Simon Izod 25 Feb 2022

Issues

Super Size Me

There's something wrong in the feature photo, but what is it?

By Mariana Patti 25 Feb 2022

Get informed

🙌🏼 Active transport! 🙌🏼

As a doctor working at a busy North London Hospital I have started to notice a brilliant change as a result of Islington council'

By Guest Speaker 1 Aug 2021

Get involved

Islington Forest for Change

Dear Neighbours We heard about the amazing Islington Forest for Change project from Islington Clean Air Parents [https://islingtoncleanairparents.wordpress.com] (ICAP) and just had

By Francisca Sepúlveda 19 Jul 2021

Neighbourhood

Hemingford Arms

Two perspectives on a neighbourhood firm fave.

By Mariana Patti, John Hartley 12 Jul 2021

Neighbourhood

Cycling routes

Last summer, one of my work colleagues organised a team cycling day (with cocktails/mocktails) when the first lockdown lifted. As you can imagine, there

By Francisca Sepúlveda 19 Jun 2021

Issues

Mandate for LTNs

In this post, Nick encourages our Councillors to push ahead with the LTN roll-out following the clear democratic mandate provided by the elections on 6 May.

By Guest Speaker 21 May 2021

Neighbourhood

My Squares Walk

Like everyone else, when lockdown started I began going for daily walks.  Even with the reduced traffic I still found some Barnsbury roads unpleasant to

By Richenda Walford 14 Apr 2021