Comments on: Bishopsgate Goodsyard Debate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jackie Tweedale https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1328046 Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:49:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1328046 No to this monstrosity of a development. It’s time to ditch the high rises and build according to local need. We don’t need more outrageously expensive flats but local housing for local people. It’s a valuable opportunity to follow the lead of the surrounding architecture and history and listen to local people. London is a chaos of towers and it’s time to respect our history and the wishes of the local residents and not stampede over them.

]]> By: teapot https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1051660 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 14:37:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1051660 I was on Ancestry last night looking up my great-great-grandfather in the 1911 census. He was in Shoreditch Union Workhouse, along with over 900 other poor souls. There were pages and pages of people of all sorts of occupations, with no money and nowhere else to go. I couldn’t believe how many of them there were as I looked through the list, but it is a tiny fraction of the people needing housing in Tower Hamlets now:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/housing_figures_homes_benefits_w
Social housing improved the lives of the generation that came after great-great-grandpa almost out of recognition, but I really fear for the next one. London doesn’t need any more luxury flats and I’m very sure that the developers and Boris & cronies don’t need the money. This development makes no sense at all and I hope you keep fighting it.

]]> By: Mummy Geek https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1051472 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:19:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1051472 As petition articles/pleas go don’t concentrate on what change visually may come – concentrate on those who need housing. Show the waiting lists, show residents who will be ousted by this undemocratic process bullied through by Boris. Change happens and Londoners love vibrancy and change – just don’t reduce in any way the value of basic rights of people who are the unvalued people of London.

]]> By: Caroline Scott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1051251 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:32:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1051251 Awful, truly awful. Boris has simiilar plans for the ancient market town of Kingston upon Thames. See kingstonskyline.weebly.com. It’s all about money, money, money. Communities and places will be destroyed forever. @justwantclarity

]]> By: Rupert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1050973 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:52:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1050973 Sadly I doubt the debate will make any difference. As a few have hinted at, this is not about reason or democracy, this is about money. It would be very naive to imagine there isn’t a massive backhander involved here between the developers and Boris. So the only way to fight this would be with a bigger pile. Whip round anyone?!

]]> By: Vicki Fox https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1050938 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:50:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1050938 Who can afford the ‘luxury’ flats? Surely those that can will need some service e.g. cleaners, etc? My son has enough for a good deposit (£20,000) but because he is on a low income cannot afford a place of his own. He works as a porter at the Homerton Hospital.

]]> By: Annie G https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1050847 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:14:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1050847 Good luck with the meeting and the continued lobbying to stop this blatant disregard of democracy in favour of pocket lining. I don’t care that Boris doesn’t care – but I do care about London and Londoners. Let’s keep these pages going so that we can be a thorn in the fat arses of the people who love money because they think it will protect them from the world. It won’t. And it won’t shut us up either.

]]> By: Molasses https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1050807 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 08:32:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1050807 Money talks – sadly!

Democracy has been on a slow erode since the heady 60s…..

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1050761 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:02:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1050761 I agree with all the comments made here about democracy, but Boris and his like do not care, pockets are being lined somewhere and I think that we can all guess where!

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/11/07/bishopsgate-goodsyard-meeting/#comment-1050759 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:42:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=140295#comment-1050759 Hideous, kinky…..and profoundly depressing. How can Boris wield such power when he is coasting to the end of his Mayoralty and has already started his new job as MP for Uxbridge? What a miserable society we have to live in when concepts of social responsibility are consistently swept aside in favour of money and profits for a few. These proposed buildings reveal the ugliness of that society all too clearly. Keep fighting gentle author, and all your readers!

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