London eco-village occupation — wish-list, directions, & film

Around 70 pro­test­ers have occu­pied an emp­ty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brent­ford, Lon­don (TW8 0EW). They’ve set up an eco-vil­lage.

This will show­case com­mu­ni­ty based sus­tain­able meth­ods of liv­ing such as veg­etable grow­ing, com­post toi­lets. They in the process of set­ting up tents and are clean­ing the site of rub­bish.

Lon­don eco-camp: Day One — video/quicktime 13M

We could do with the more of the fol­low­ing if you are think­ing of vis­it­ing:

>Big water con­tain­ers (>10ltrs)
>Oil for bolts
>Screws, bolts, coach bolts.
>Sta­tion­ary: paper, pens, sticky tape, etc.,
>Ban­ner mak­ing material/paints.
>Tarps
>String and Rope
>Spades shov­els and forks
>Lots of hose for mov­ing water.

We have a real­ly awe­some and secure site, it looks like we are stay­ing we have one large issue. Most of the site is heav­i­ly over­looked so we need to keep things tidy, make things visu­al­ly inter­est­ing and have banners/posters so peo­ple know what we are up to. The local have been very sup­port­ive so far due to the pro­posed use of the site we are occu­py­ing. Lets keep it that way…any help much appre­ci­at­ed.

If you would like to join our autonomous space in west lon­don then how do you get there?

1. Cycle; from cen­tral lon­don there is one road with no change. The A315, it changes names to many things but starts south of Hyde Park (as Knights­bridge and Kens­ing­ton Road) and con­tin­ues through Chisick (Chiswick High Street) right untill the round about where the camp is set­up. From kew bridge the camp can be clear­ly seen.

2. Take a train: from south east lon­don this is the best option. Train are reg­u­lar out of water­loo and take about 25 min­utes to get to Kew Bridge sta­tion. You can take your bike on these trains.

3. Get dad­dy to give you a lift in his heli­copter: you may get thrown out.

We are at Kew Bridge
Map: http://tinyurl.com/n7ny33