SOLAR UPDATE MAY 2025
Our May 2025 update with news on SOLAR events and activities is now available to read and review online by clicking here. We are looking for people to get involved in the campaign, visit our Join Us Page for more information.
THE THAMES IN TEDDINGTON
We are pleased to let people know that on Monday 16th June, between 7&9pm, the Teddington Society, in collaboration with the Lensbury Club are arranging an event to help local people appreciate the issues and understanding the threats and pressures on the Thames. There will be presentations from local river groups with Q&A on Thames …
RECIEVED A LAND INTEREST QUESTIONNAIRE?
Over the last few weeks another Thames Water letter has been landing on door mats, some on houses that are now well versed with the Teddington DRA proposals, others who are hearing about how the scheme affects them for the first time. As a result, here at SOLAR we have had lot of emails from …
LOCAL ART STUDENTS STAND UP AGAINST THAMES WATER
Art students from Richmond upon Thames College join Sir Steve Redgrave’s recent call for Thames Water to stop plans to pump treated sewage into the River Thames. Their winning design, a permanent piece of art, was unveiled on Thursday 27 March outside The Anglers Pub in Teddington by the local MP, Munira Wilson (Twickenham). ‘Withering Time’ …
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Save Our Lands and River March News
The next 12 months could define the future of the Thames—your voice matters! 2025 is going to be critically important year for those opposed to the Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) proposals. During the next few months, Thames Water will undertake its statutory consultation. This is when the public can make their opinion known. Thames …
MARCH FOR CLEAN WATER
SOLAR’s involvement in November’s March for Clean Water in Central London was highlighted in the recent Ham and Petersham Magazine. At the march, thousands of people gathered on the embankment and walked to Parliament Square to call for the (new) Government to step in to provide stronger regulation and guidelines on what a environmentally, sustainable …
A REDUCTION IN SHAFTS BUT SERIOUS QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED
The October 2024 round of community events from Thames Water is an attempt to show how the removal of a number of shafts now means that they had listened to the key concerns and have a scheme which should be supportable. As SOLAR this attempted slight of hand fails to address many of our longstanding …
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Solar writes to Steve Reed
In September the Mayor of London announced that Teddington is one of his four new selected open water swimming spots for London. As it set out on the GLA’s website the Mayor will bring together local communities, companies, government agencies, charities and campaigners to develop an ambitious 10-year plan that will see the river at Teddington become a place that is …
SOLAR Writes to Steve Reed
With the change in government in place, Save Our Land and River have written to the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to raise awareness of our concerns and opposition to the Teddington DRA scheme. In the letter, which you can read a copy of of here we bring to the …
A Greenwashed Disaster: Fewer Shafts BUT Thames Water’s Environmental Havoc CONTINUES
In response to pressure from locally elected officials and the community Save Our Lands and River (SOLAR) campaign, Thames Water announced this week that it has amended plans for the Teddington Direct River Abstraction scheme (TRDA) by removing four of its seven construction shafts between Mogden Sewage Works and Ham Lands from the proposed design. …
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