bara history
BARA is the Bushwood Area Residents' Association. Based in Leytonstone, East London, E11, it was formed way back in 1979 and now has over 500 member households. BARA encourages community spirit, looks after the environment and supports local amenities for the benefit of all our members.
If you live in the Bushwood Area (see map), join now to take advantage of local discounts and keep up to date on the latest neighbourly news from our quarterly publication: The Bush Telegraph. You can also gain access to the Library of Things, our resident share scheme, our Facebook page and receive our regular emails with everything that is happening in E11 and beyond.
Check out our facebook page and Instagram @bara.e11
How BARA Began
Up until the late '70s, there were no barriers across Bushwood or Mornington Roads and traffic, including heavy lorries, used these two roads, together with Lister Road, as a 'rat run' to escape from the High Road to the Green Man roundabout. As an experiment the Council put in two temporary barriers. After a while, however, they deemed the barriers unnecessary and planned to remove them.
Residents in Bushwood and Lister decided to mount a protest and they came to all the houses in the area inviting people to a meeting one weekend at the Bushwood barrier. Such a large number turned up that the owners of 14 Bushwood invited the meeting to move into their loft room. Here it was decide that the local residents would leaflet the Council, attend Council meetings and pressurise them to keep the barriers.
The residents won! However it had not been easy to get a group of people together and so it was decide that, since a group now existed, it should be formed into a proper Residents Association so that, should another problem arise, there would be a band of people ready to deal with it - this Association became BARA.
BARA AGM Minutes
BARA will make available after each AGM the minutes which were formally adopted and approved (please click on the link below)
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