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Islington Council has launched an exciting new tool which calculates local people’s carbon footprints and advises them on the pledges they can make to help create a cleaner, greener, healthier future. 

Ironmonger Row Baths swimming pool will reopen on Monday 24 January for all users - including school swimming and Better Swim School.

The council has closely studied monitoring data and listened carefully to feedback on the Canonbury East people-friendly streets neighbourhood, and will now introduce an exemption scheme for Blue Badge holders living in the neighbourhood.   

Following the fire on 6 January, GLL and Islington Council have been working closely together to reopen facilities at Ironmonger Row Baths as soon as it is safe to do so.

We would like to thank our leisure centre staff and London Fire Brigade for their very prompt response to the fire at Ironmonger Row Baths on 6^th January. 

Islington Council has today (Wednesday, 22 December) published a report showing feedback on the St Peter’s people-friendly streets neighbourhood which, alongside recent monitoring data, reflects the scheme’s positive impact.  

Islington Council is determined to make the borough a cleaner, greener, healthier place, but can’t do this alone. It is vital that local people and businesses play their part, and that is why the council is partnering with experts ReLondon to provide grants to businesses to become greener.

Islington Council is inviting local people to have their say on plans to continue its pioneering School Streets programme, which help make the school run cleaner, greener and healthier.     

Islington Council can today announce that its efforts to create a cleaner, greener, healthier borough are continuing, with the introduction of a new people-friendly streets neighbourhood in the St Mary’s Church area.    

Islington Council can today announce that it is introducing new measures to make it easier for disabled people to travel in the Highbury West and Highbury Fields people-friendly streets neighbourhoods.    

Islington Council has planted some of the borough’s first trees from the ‘Forest for Change’ exhibition at Hugh Myddelton Primary School, as a symbol of its ongoing commitment to creating a cleaner, greener, healthier borough for all.    

More than £500,000 has already been invested in Islington Greener Futures, and local people are still able to play their part in creating a cleaner, greener, healthier Islington by investing.