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@planabby.bsky.social
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Head of Green Infrastructure at Greater London Authority. Chair of CIWEM SuDS & Water Reuse Policy Group. FRSA. MUPP. Urbanist(a). Flâneur. Non-lycra cyclist. Fil-Am Londoner.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/08/2026
Not all city heroes wear capes. Some have roots. We're planting up to 5,000 more climate-resilient trees and strengthening London's canopy cover to help keep our city greener, cooler and healthier for the years ahead.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
No excuses for putting SuDS and trees in streets! We've helped develop a guide to help make it easier to do.
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
London is becoming wilder every day - with beavers in Ealing, bees buzzing in Bexley and bats back in Barnes💚 We've just launched London’s first ever Local Nature Recovery Strategy to help nature thrive even more across our city. Let’s make London greener, richer & wilder! 🌱
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Research showing (obviously...) that just building more housing is not enough to address the housing crisis for those that need it the most. Affordability matters www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...
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Why Building Alone Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis
An imbalance in the kind of housing getting built and rising insurance costs are impeding housing progress, according to two new reports.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great to see the progress on our grant funded projects!
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Great to see the Mayor’s Green Roots Fund is helping projects in Lambeth strengthen access to nature and build climate‑resilient neighbourhoods Supporting initiatives that connect more people with green and blue space is key to a greener, fairer London love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth_gree...
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Love Lambeth
Lambeth Council and four community groups secure funding for biodiversity projects.
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The Mayor’s Green Roots Fund will see the return of a white storks breeding colony for the first time in 600 years! This is just 1 of 26 projects being funded this round to help nature thrive across London’s communities www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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White storks to return to London for first time in 600 years
Rewilding plan will make Dagenham the UK’s second stork reintroduction site
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London Wildlife Trust @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We’re delighted to announce ‘Rewilding East London’ - a new species recovery project to reintroduce white storks and beavers to East London! Delivered in partnership with London Borough of Barking & Dagenham supported by the Mayor’s of London's Green Roots Fund. @london.gov.uk #GreenRoots
A white stork in flight
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
NEWS: First projects announced! Mayor's Green Roots Fund is investing £12m+ to transform neighbourhoods into thriving green spaces. The fund will reintroduce a breeding colony of white storks to east London - helping rewild and restore London's wetlands bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Round 1 of Mayor’s Green Roots funded projects include: ✅Reintroduction of beavers and a breeding colony of white storks to East London ✅River restoration projects ✅14 community orchards We’re building a healthier, greener, wilder London for everyone bit.ly/48D2rkq
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White storks and beavers to make historic return to East London, thanks to Mayor’s funding
A breeding colony of white storks will be re-introduced to London for the first time in 600 years, as part of a £3.48million from the Mayor’s new Green Roots Fund to help make neighbourhoods across th...
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It’s #NationalTreeWeek!  London is growing greener every day - 620,000+ new trees have been planted since 2016 thanks to the Mayor’s funding. We’re on a mission to boost canopy cover by 10% by 2050 - keeping London cool and green.
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London Wildlife Trust @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
On Sunday, our Head of Planning and External Affairs, Richard Barnes, appeared on BBC’s Politics London, filmed at our Walthamstow Wetlands nature reserve. Richard spoke about the importance of London’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS).
Richard and Jonny walking along the path at Walthamstow Wetlands
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🌼 Two days left to give your views on the London Local Nature Recovery Strategy! Consultation closes on 29 October 2025: londonlnrs.commonplace.is 🐝
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Centre for London @centreforlondon.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
📢 Delighted that @planabby.bsky.social will be speaking on our Ecosystem panel at The London Conference 2025. Working with both the GLA & @ciwem.bsky.social, she’ll share her expertise on the intersection between cities and environments. Register to hear her speak: forms.office.com/e/2JKe2sm3Tx
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🌼 One week left to give your views on the London Local Nature Recovery Strategy! Consultation closes on 29 October 2025: londonlnrs.commonplace.is
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“A lot of people think that they are protected because of the Thames Barrier and the [...] embankments that protect London from sea level rise and river flooding, [but] a great project needs to happen in terms of funding, raising the embankment along the River Thames and building a new barrier.”
theguardian.com
Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Parks for London (@parksforlondon.org.uk)
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Parks for London (@parksforlondon.org.uk)
🦌 New resource alert: @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social has published the London Deer Strategy, outlining a 4-year plan for managing wild deer in the capital. 👉Find it now in our Resources Hub
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's here!!!! Get your eyes on our new draft London Local Nature Recovery Strategy, out now for consultation. This sets out key priorities for nature in London. 🌳🌱🍄🐝🪱🪲🦫🦔🦇🐦‍⬛
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LDN Mayor Environment (@ldn-environment.bsky.social)
📣Have your say! The Draft London Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now out for consultation. Find out more: londonlnrs.commonplace.is and sign up to our LNRS webinar bit.ly/46uMMnx%F0%9...…
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LDN Mayor Environment @ldn-environment.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thamesmead's transformation is bringing community, nature and art together- creating spaces for local people to connect and thrive. Read more about Deputy Mayor @metecoban92.bsky.social's visit to Thamesmead: www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/news/general...
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Deputy Mayor of London praises co-designed open spaces in South Thamesmead
Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, has hailed South Thamesmead’s outdoor spaces as “exemplary”.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
LDN Mayor Environment (@ldn-environment.bsky.social)
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LDN Mayor Environment (@ldn-environment.bsky.social)
Last week Deputy Mayor @metecoban92.bsky.social visited Thamesmead to see the incredible transformation achieved with our partners, Peabody, Groundwork and @theyoungfdn.bsky.social, alongside the…
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Lots of recruitment @ldn-environment.bsky.social! 2 roles open in the Climate Adaptation team to work on our Clean & Healthy Waterways plan & delivery, working closely with my Green (& Blue!) Infrastructure team. Especially looking for folks with a water background. www.london.gov.uk/senior-polic...
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Senior Policy and Programme officer x 2
Salary: £52,305
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Get in there for the preorder and get some stickers too! Cats, space, French food, cycling. It has everything.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Good to finally see attention being paid to water scarcity and drought in the UK. This country needs to do more and sooner, not waiting for the crisis. This is a good basic explainer of why. #waterscarcity #waterefficiency
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How can England possibly be running out of water?
While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My sister @aecwrites.bsky.social is publishing a short story e-book and you can now pre-order it! Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit has cats, space, France and confit...what more can one ask for? linktr.ee/aecrisostomo... #sweetdreamsaremadeofconfit #shortstories #atticebooks #nicolefrailbooks
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allison e. crisostomo @aecwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I'm so excited to share the cover of my new short story, SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF CONFIT. It's a special space age story about cats in France and I can't wait to share it with you! Available for preorder from wherever you get ebooks! books2read.com/sweetdreamsa...
Ebook cover for Sweet Dreams Are Made of Confit featuring a night time skyline with cats.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
In case you missed it, my colleagues @ldn-environment.bsky.social published new guidance for Reimagining Rainwater in Highways, a guide to designing SuDS in streets www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I had the chance to attend the launch of the @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social Trust Youth Board's new film London's Hidden Track a couple weeks ago. It was very exciting to see what the youth board were able to do. They've shared the film and a zine online here: www.wildlondon.org.uk/youth-board
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Youth Board | London Wildlife Trust
A a team of passionate young people advising our trustee board and senior management team on key issues at London Wildlife Trust
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
You would wish that it wouldn't be necessary, but alas it seems it is. Thanks to @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social for producing a report on the scale of impact of bats & newts on planning applications. Nature isn't the problem. www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/defaul... #nature
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Good to see water efficiency and water reuse in the news. So important to take action on these, especially given climate change impacts we're already seeing. It's not just about sewage spills.
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The UK is getting drier. Could reusing greywater help?
Experts say the average Briton uses too much water per day and societal change needs to start today to tackle looming water crisis
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm super proud to announce the launch of our £12m Green Roots Fund. This has been 2+ years in the making with lots of unsexy change management in the background. I'm super proud of my team & the others that got this set up. Now, apply for those grants!
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Just back from holiday and back at it. Up in front of the ‪@londonassembly.bsky.social‬ again on Thursday this week to talk about the green belt and planning. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Sad to see how little has progressed on inclusion in the gardening world, though not at all surprised. Good for Tayshan Hayden-Smith for saying something about it though. The sector can be a very exclusive place. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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RHS ambassador for communities quits, saying he was made to feel a ‘nuisance’
Tayshan Hayden-Smith says Chelsea flower show celebrates ‘exclusivity over equity’ and he was naive to think he could bring change
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Look at the nice wildflower meadow they installed outside the newly refurbished Walworth Town Hall. Even some poppies for the war memorial.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Been seeing a lot of #GreenInfrastructure out and about recently. Here are some SuDS with trees on the high street in Ilford.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Great to see the completed version of this Walworth Alberta Street LTN has been turned into a mini park and play space! Seconds before I took this, kids walking home from school had been playing on it.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Came across some very nice SuDS the other day in the recently redesigned Finsbury Circus Gardens.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social‬ interview from Mar 24 w/ Nick Bano about his book Against Landlords is really interesting. It's about the housing crisis as one of affordability, not of supply. Also an interesting ref (given recent echos) to the Enoch Powell speech.
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Against Landlords ft. Nick Bano
Cursed Objects · Episode
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Great to return to @londonssembly.bsky.social #AssemblyEnvironment yesterday for a discussion on trees and the impacts of climate change. I was able to share a lot about the updated London Urban Forest Plan.
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Environment Committee | London City Hall
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 10:00 AM
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I'm up in front of the @londonassembly.bsky.social‬ Environment Committee again this week, this time to talk about trees and climate change. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Good review by @urbanparksgirl.bsky.social for MHCLG of the successes & challenges of parks management in the UK. Nothing too new, but good reminders about long-term revenue funding, skills shortage, community engagement, inclusion, collaboration & outcomes-based thinking. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Sustaining success in parks
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In case you missed it, the consultation is now open on the direction of the new London Plan. Balancing the need for housing and tackling the climate and ecological emergencies will be a key challenge. Have your say until 22 June. www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s... #LondonPlan
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Belatedly came across this, but anyone in the environment sector should listen to this ENDS Report Eco Chamber podcast about the environment sector's problem with race. I feel this all so much. It's very very lonely here, especially in the nature and water sectors. www.endsreport.com/article/1896...
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LISTEN NOW>>> Access Denied: The environment sector’s problem with race
In this podcast special, the ENDS Report’s James Agyepong-Parsons investigates why the environment sector remains one of the least diverse in the country and finds out what’s being done to implement…
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Nice video showing some of the Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston nature recovery and river restoration work on Hackney Marshes (funded through some of our @ldn_environment@bsky.social funding) bit.ly/4iaZdbx #naturerecovery #hackneymarshes #watervoles #haggerston #hackney #riverrestoration #rewilding
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Small Mammal Recovery and River Restoration on Hackney Marshes
A film documenting our efforts over the last three years to bring small mammals back to Hackney Marshes and restore and improve biodiversity in and along the...
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Mete Coban MBE @metecoban92.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Not a single one of London’s 41 rivers are in good shape — they’re all polluted. Led by the Mayor, I chaired a roundtable bringing key partners together to kickstart action on tackling pollution, restoring nature and making our waterways accessible for all - backed by £7m investment from City Hall.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Really interesting insights in this paper about the wellbeing and community inclusion benefits of urban greening and landscaping in new developments / regeneration. No surprise, inclusion is more complex than just quantum of green space. buff.ly/xlMSq1K
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Great to see such good results for nature in this Hackney Marshes project funded through our @ldn-environment.bsky.social Grow Back Greener and Rewild London Fund grants. Also highlights the importance of how we balance the use of our waterways for nature and people
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Hackney Marshes: Rewilding efforts sees 'overnight' animals rebound
Animals are returning to the Hackney Marshes following years of decline, environmentalists say.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Very last minute, but in case you're free today, there's an interesting set of @britishecologicalsociety.org webinars about equality, diversity and inclusion in ecology buff.ly/iXurcZZ #PrideinSTEM
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Developing collaborative solutions to the intersectional barriers faced by minoritized ecologists - British Ecological Society
Join the BES Networks to discuss how we build a more equitable community for all ecologists.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The London Urban Forest Partnership launched an updated action plan to deliver the LUF Plan! With renewed focus on resilience & equity, it says how @ldn-environment.bsky.social & our partners will help to grow, expand, protect, manage, promote & support London's trees and woodlands.
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
‘Serious cause for concern’: Water experts react to lack of mandatory SuDS regulation adoption buff.ly/4hcgUad
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‘Serious cause for concern’: Water experts react to lack of mandatory SuDS regulation adoption
Despite the government saying that Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 would be in...
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PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I think about this every day. I've left jobs because of the lack of consideration of this: "Decisions about institutions and budgets that seem boring in ordinary times are life-and-death matters in a crisis." #climatecrisis buff.ly/4gM51Y5
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The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
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