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Respect MP George Galloway has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament over proposals to build huge skyscrapers in Shoreditch.
Our community is under threat.
Tower Hamlets and Hackney Councils, encouraged by the City of London and Mayor Livingstone, want to change Shoreditch and Spitalfieds for ever.
If they get their way Brick Lane will be surrounded by massive glass tower blocks, providing homes, offices and shops for the rich - excluding and blocking out the light for local people.
Bishops Place, opposite Spitalfields market, will have a 30-storey block with a hotel, but only 4% of the 200+ homes will be 'affordable'.
32 - 42 Bethnal Green Road will have a 25-storey block where the developers have said that local families 'are not considered suitable'.
Popular local historic buildings, like the Light Bar, will be bulldozed - just like Spitalfields Market was.
If we don't Stop the Blocks, we will see the same type of thing - on an even bigger scale - at Bishopsgate Goodsyard.
WE DEMAND A SAY IN THE FUTURE OF OUR AREA!
These developments will bring huge changes to our community.
There will be years of pollution and environmental damage.
Land prices will rise, putting pressure on small businesses.
Our children will find it even harder to get a local home they can afford.
There will be extra pressure on local services like GPs and schools.
Homes will be cast into shadow and lose their views of the sky.
The amount of 'affordable' housing on these schemes makes it clear that local people are not welcome.
At 32 - 42 Bethnal Green Road there will be 360 new homes, of which 259 - 71% - will be for private sale.
Local elected councillors are being deliberately misled about this.
Only 72 (20%) will for social renting, 8% for 'intermediate'.
46% (167) of the new homes will be studio and one bedroom flats.
Only 21% will be 3 bedroom or above.
Only 3% will be 4 bedroom or bigger.
Given the above, this scheme fails to meet, or even get close to the minimum targets for 'affordable' housing set down by the Council (35%) of the Mayor of London (50%).
We believe such schemes also breach the Commission for Racial Equalities Code of Good Practice in housing.
Our politicians are supposed to represent us, not big business.
Some of these schemes are being paid for using public money!
Mayor Livingstone, Tower Hamlets and Hackney councils all have the power to say "it's not good enough - what about local people?", but they're too busy trying to please the corporates.
Tower Hamlets' Strategic Planning Committee will decide on 32 - 42 Bethnal Green Road on 13th March.
We can do something.
Send a letter of objection to the Council.
Write to Cllr Denise Jones.
Put a poster up in your window.
Come and protest outside Mulberry Place on Thursday 13th.
Get involved in the Stop the Blocks campaign.
For more information call Glyn on 07828 776174
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