SaveHackneyWick

Urgent: Plan to start demolition of Vittoria was announced by Balfour Beatty / Mayor of London / LLDC - while everyone is on holiday. We will not let this happen and London needs to know. PLEASE SHARE VIDEO AND SIGN PETITION. youtube.com/watch?v=HIsZbM…

MSG Sphere application has been referred to Mayor of London. It would look very like this one in Vegas, but on a cramped site in Stratford with residential properties on 3 sides, some just 50m away. Decision by 20 Nov so object NOW via the comments form. buff.ly/3Mz6y73

@ChaponaBike123 @bluesbreaker196 I wouldn’t overtake approaching a pedestrian crossing. You can’t see properly what’s there. I understand you can overtake ON an empty crossing. But if you see one ahead I would hold back. I didn’t spot the other cyclist(s)!

@SaveHackneyWick @bluesbreaker196 It’s ok to overtake cyclists through a protected crossing… there’s something else… look closely… what might be coming the other way, for example?

@ChaponaBike123 @bluesbreaker196 Don’t overtake approaching a pedestrian crossing

@bluesbreaker196 Keep going. What else can you spot that was wrong?

Environmental impact - zero carbon target not met, carbon emissions so high £2.6m offsetting required. Not compliant with London plan - cycling modal share just 0.44%. Other - only 175FTE resident jobs in construction & 543 once operational, split across all 5 boroughs. 5/5

Noise pollution for residents from 21,500 people leaving at night. Impact on heritage & local townscape - not in keeping with the local area and will damage the setting of nearby heritage buildings Building height - almost as tall as Big Ben it will dominate the area 4/5

...and Stadium inevitable and would see “significantly higher levels of crowding and delays”. Highway safety - LLDC acknowledges "uncertainty" remains regarding the illuminated facade's impact on road safety & distraction Traffic - an extra 863,590 car movements per year 3/5

Loss of residential amenity: Scale of development is overbearing. Residents, some 50-75m away, will suffer from light pollution. Stratford station already has dangerous overcrowding and LLDC acknowledges it'll see worse congestion in some areas. Concurrent events at Sphere... 2/5

If Kermit's back that must mean... The MSG Sphere application has finally been referred to the Mayor of London. His decision is expected on 20 Nov so please send in your objections NOW on their simple form. buff.ly/3Mz6y73 Read the 🧵 for some suggested points to make.

@JMPSimor Yes, but John 3;16, Luke 23:28

We are lost. Our species is lost.

Image shows graph of #phosphate concentration in our loval river. Going up and down but set to increase with the heavy rain forecast. Sampling done monthly on Old #RiverLea Always massively over safe/ good levels. #LeaGuardians #SewageScandal

We really don't understand how the Lee Valley Park is getting a Green Flag award for the #Waterworks considering its shocking neglect of the Nature Reserve and Waterworks Centre!

@facebook took this down from our Facebook site! "A group participant shared a post that goes against our Community Standards on cybersecurity" Idiots!

A petition calling to bring back Growing Concerns garden centre at Wick Lane has attracted 820 signatures (and counting!) 🌵🌻🪴 The community garden closed in autumn last year after Clarion Housing terminated its lease. romanroadlondon.com/growing-concer…

Important. Pls spread word 100,000s of people, mostly women age 66+ who took were off work for childcare between 1978 & 2010, are due to get HMRC letter that may be worth £10,000s due to underpaid state pensions. It isn't a scam DON'T bin the letter. See moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/10/h…

@elonmusk The idea that creating a society of warriors was a great idea…

Regarding Lycurgus, founder of Sparta. The pivotal moment in the creation of Sparta came when Lycurgus proposed radical laws that would transform the state into some of the greatest warriors in history. A member of the assembly was so offended that he struck Lycurgus in the eye. Lycurgus could easily have killed him and everyone knew it. Instead, he stood there with his eye destroyed and invited that man to his house for dinner, ultimately convincing the man to become one of his greatest supporters. Once the laws were in place, Lycurgus left for the temple, saying the laws could not change until he returned. Then Lycurgus starved himself to death. BAMF. The lesson here is that revenge is for the weak.

@TheMurkyDepths #Newham is London's joint 2nd poorest borough. It won't be locals who can afford to go to the Sphere, it'll be 1000s of people coming from elsewhere who have the privilege of leaving it & going home. East London's residents have had countless developments done to them. Not again.

@leytoncyclist @_judetheobscure @StopMSGSphere @TheMurkyDepths @Redbus51 It’s a legitimate point to ask who benefits from change. Rents, house prices are now much higher pushing out those who can no longer afford to live in the area.

@leytoncyclist @_judetheobscure @StopMSGSphere @TheMurkyDepths @Redbus51 Gentrification is an issue. The Olympics destroyed a valuable industrial district providing jobs for local people falsely written off as a wasteland. People also mistake Stratford City (Westfield, International Quarter, East Village) as part of the Olympics. Nothing to do with it

I'd love to look out at it Just get some curtains? It's inner London ffs

@KneidlachJenner @StopMSGSphere @ZackPolanski Shit posting!

@StopMSGSphere @ZackPolanski Build it

“Everyone should be able to enjoy the sky at night and...a home...free from advertising ... People in hotel rooms in Vegas...only have to put up with it for a day or two but the fact that would become your daily life feels inhumane.” Thanx to @ZackPolanski telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…