30/09/2026
..Network Rail.. 
As we all know we have lost many large beach trees and other valuable native trees and understory plants all along the embankment of the railway by the Mystery and neighbouring streets .

This wonderful and rare strip of natural habitats was a balm for people in the area and a vital habitat for our wildlife.
At the height of spring network rail clear felled over 5 miles of this rare habitat despoiling our environment, causing heartbreak and distress and not properly informing anyone but the scale of this was gonna be .
This has meant people are now having to put up with diesel smells, loud trains bearing down on their homes and our beloved park.
Please see the email from a local who has got to understand that this is only the first phase of network rails plans for this vital habitat and local resource .
Please feel free to use this email as a template to email Paul Barker if you’re a Wavertree constituent or indeed your own MP if you live in another affected constituency …
We mustn’t let this stand !
Totally understand that the rails need to be safe but the absolute destruction on this scale has never been seen before.
We need Balance on this issue and network rail have to tell the truth, which they have failed to do so far.
.Email to use as template ….
Paula Barker MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
24th September
Object: Urgent intervention required regarding Network Rail's reversal on embankment chemical spraying
Dear Paula,
I am writing to you again as a constituent to urgently request your support and intervention regarding a deeply concerning matter in our community. Network Rail has completely gone back on its explicit, written promises to local residents concerning the management of our local railway embankment.
After receiving in my own case ten separate responses from Network Rail confirming they would allow the embankment’s seedbed to naturally re-populate and regenerate itself after they felled all the trees, they have suddenly U-turned. They are now proposing to spray the entire embankment area with glyphosate, completely abandoning their previous environmental commitments.
As you are well aware, glyphosate carries massive, well-documented dangers:
Severe Health Risks: The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as a "probable human carcinogen," posing a direct health threat to local residents, children, and workers.
Ecological Destruction: It is a non-selective herbicide that will completely wipe out the emerging biodiversity, devastating local pollinators, insects, and bird populations that rely on this green corridor.
Environmental Instability: Stripping the embankment of its natural root systems risks soil erosion and increases the long-term danger of landslips and flash flooding in our neighbourhood.
It is entirely unacceptable for a public body to repeatedly assure the community of an eco-friendly approach, only to secretly revert to mass chemical spraying. Despite their protestations to the contrary there has been no written communication to residents from or by Network Rail informing them of their plans.
Could you please contact the Chief Executive of Network Rail on our Community's behalf to demand an immediate halt to these spraying proposals, and ask them to honour the formal pledges they made to let this habitat naturally recover?
Thank you for your time, your continued dedication to our community, and your swift attention to this urgent environmental and public health issue.
Yours sincerely,
