Zone A Défendre
Tritons crété-e-s contre béton armé

Home > Comrades in struggle > Autres luttes contre l’aménagement capitaliste du territoire > Solidarity Demo for Grow Heathrow in Court

Solidarity Demo for Grow Heathrow in Court

Wednesday 11 May 2016

Dear friends,

Good news!

We are pleased to announce that both we and Lewdown Holdings’ solicitors have agreed to an adjournment to the trial until after the end of July 2016. We are awaiting the final words from the court, but the SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED for the convenience of our supporters.

We still plan to organise a demonstration in support of Grow Heathrow outside Uxbridge County Court on the date of the new trial, so please do keep in touch with the campaign for further announcements.

A big thanks to the witnesses in the local villages willing to support us in court, and to everyone who was planning to support us at the demonstration.

Love to all,

Grow Heathrow


Lewdown Holdings Limited (who own most of the land we live on) are attempting to get a possession order which would mean we could be forcibly removed from the community project that we have all worked together to establish for over 6 years.

Having turned this once abandoned market garden into an ecologically thriving community garden – a site where all previous planning applications have been rejected, each proposed development failing to respect the ecology of the land and the needs of the local community – Grow Heathrow could be facing an immediate threat of eviction.

There will be a solidarity demonstration, gathering from 9:00am outside Uxbridge County Court on Thursday 19th May.

The address is: 501 Uxbridge Road, Hayes, London UB4 8HL.

By public transport, ride buses 90, 195 or H98 from Hayes and Harlington station, or the 427 or 607 from Ealing Broadway.

Grow Heathrow is happily volunteering our beds and a cup of tea in the morning to anyone who may travel from further afield. In the morning we’ll cycle to court together. Bring your banners, and musical instruments. Let’s have a party, laughing all the way to court.


In the 20th century, Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota tribe said,

“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.”

In other words, if you don’t treasure this beautiful planet that we currently inhabit, then you are unlikely to value the lives and rights and the needs of its people.

Grow Heathrow asks us to take up the challenge of connecting our economies to the quality of our lives and the future of the environment, and - most concretely and urgently – we hope to raise the alarm on behalf of those living on the front lines of climate change in the global south, and our neighbours in the Heathrow villages.

Join us on the 19th May in solidarity for the villagers’ long, inspiring campaign for their rights, their futures, as Heathrow’s onslaught for a 3rd runway intensifies.