Comments on: A Plea For The Bethnal Green Mulberry

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 08:41:52 +0000

If you can’t get there, tweet @circlehousing and @CrestNicholson – I just did. May have no effect at all, but you never know!

By: Esther Drabkin-Reiter

Esther Drabkin-Reiter — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:36:38 +0000

It’s great that so many people have signed the petition – but do encourage everyone who has signed the petition to also submit separate objections to this planning application to the council. They could be based on the same template text. My experience in Southwark has been that the council treat petitions as one response, regardless of how many people have signed it. The council will have certain legal duties and policies on protecting the environment which could also be relied on in the planning objection.

By: Joyce Hampton

Joyce Hampton — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:15:21 +0000

I just wanted to let you know that although I live in leafy Surrey I do care very much about London and its history. I have signed the petition, shared on FB and donated. Sometimes its is all the little people together who can shout so loud with one voice and overule the clarion call of business.

By: Kate Fearnley

Kate Fearnley — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:18:00 +0000

might we be able to sign the petition at Wanstead Tap next week? Mulberry trees are so very special; I loved the one growing in the garden of the Canonbury Tower when it was “our” Theatre.

By: Steve Hanscomb

Steve Hanscomb — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:10:43 +0000

I will attend and leave a letter. It is just so disheartening that our government and local authorities have such little regard for our heritage and places of historic interest. The Still and Star pub in Aldgate looks like it will be lost too, simply because of greed. The hands off approach by our authorities is absolutely shameful.

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:21:59 +0000

I agree with what has been said and done this mulberry tree must be saved. After all its a war veteran wounded & surviving WW2 having GBH it gave pleasure during the war also providing a valuable vitamin source. John a bus pass poet – PS all trees will help save the planet, more tree friends in, not more out OK!

By: Nicholas Davies

Nicholas Davies — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:13:51 +0000

What a shortsighted and insensitive decision. I hope, for the sake of London’s heritage, the Mulberry tree can be preserved in its original spot.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 05:26:16 +0000

I hope very much that the mulberry tree can be saved in the face of so much greed and ignorance. Valerie