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Delisle Road, LONDON, SE28 0JD

This is one of four blocks of sustainable social housing built for the Gallions Housing Association. The houses have, amongst other features, timber frames, advanced insulation and double glazing, condensing boilers, solar water heating through panels in the roofs, and waste separation units to encourage recycling, as well as sunspaces in their south-facing elevations. The houses in Block A here are two bedroom units. The Ecopark website is here http://www.gallionsecopark.co.uk/home.htm (This image was taken at sunset and the colour has not been enhanced).

Geese on a canal in Thamesmead, South East London.

Large parts of Thamesmead are on land originally contaminated by the activities of the former Woolwich Royal Arsenal. The land was first recovered by the GLC for residential use in the 1960s. As part of this redevelopment a system of canals and lakes were built in order to store and manage surface water run-off prior to its discharge into the River Thames. As part of the current development Tilfen Land Limited have retained and rebuilt sections of the old system, again to manage surface water run-off, including the provision of flood storage areas, but also to provide an ecology corridor and a public amenity through the residential areas. There is a .pdf file describing the scheme on Tilfen's website here http://www.tilfenland.co.uk/pdf/reshapingenvironments.pdf This image was taken from the east side of Delisle Road with New Acres Road on the right. It is difficult to categorize the photo on the Geograph site in the sense that it is not an old navigable canal, nor a river, but an artificial drainage cut. "Drain" in the sense of a fenland drain therefore seems most suitable.

Thamesmead West was built from the 1990s onwards, and is a significant distance from the original development of Thamesmead from the late 1960s onwards. The landscaped canals here come from the time that this was part of Plumstead Marshes.