Regeneration is a word used to promote positive benefit from construction and urbanisation. However, construction on old gas works sites without biologically adequate provisions are putting various communities across the UK at high risk for poor health outcomes.

Nature can be a site of freedom, and an opportunity to extend our ideas of Transness outside of just humans: what if the ocean is non-binary? What could it mean to relate our genders to elements in nature rather than social norms?

This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised, working-class communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems (climate change). 

This open-letter is a list of our thoughts and concerns based from attending a public meeting held between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Public Health England, Staffordshire County Council, the Environment Agency, and the community where Walleys Quarry Landfill site is located.

This document will look at how industry gaslights communities, the mistakes science makes, and the significance of listening and acknowledging the lived experience. This report is for both practitioners and citizens who are experiencing environmental and health injustice.

In this essay, we will be detailing the pathways of oppression, including the role that science, policy, and city organisers play. 

This report is the result of a co-designed and produced community-led scientific study highlighting the susceptibility of the Southall community and the need for stricter air pollution guidelines.

In this report, we will look at equitable engagement with community expertise and why it is essential to move towards equitable health solutions. We will define ‘equitable engagement’; reframe the relationship between community and science; and provide a ‘How To’ manual that includes seven principles for equitable engagement with community expertise.