Comments on: The Return Of The Goodsyard Monster https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Colin Brooking https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1333208 Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:07:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1333208 Hello, young people at the nearby Bethnal Green School (old Bethnal Green Road) with their Teacher Elaine Aird entered a presentation (2004) on future development of the Birshopsgate Goods Yard. As a group they undertook workshops supported by Planning Aid for London
a TCPA initiative led by Pat Castledine, I participated as we toured the Boundry Estate, the site
area and its neighbourhood. A verbal presetation was made by the young people with a slide
set showing their consideration of past activity there, the street layout changing and their
proposed new uses, a copy is available in reply to this email missive. (There is also an international dimension to the Boundary Estate, for the LCC Architects had wider horizons).

Their advocacy is for a variety of dwellings, open sports pitches, paved and planted piazza sitting by restaurants, shops and places to work. Landscape, conservation of historic fabric and new building in such a context – a contemporary development that could match the Boundary Estate in a new way. In lieu of a Mayoral race, exercise public land community planning consultations, with software and pictures please…

]]> By: Kate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330841 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:32:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330841 This is absolutely vile. Your clever photo graphs say it perfectly.

]]> By: Maurice https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330668 Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:13:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330668 This HAS to be stopped. Please everyone, send emails. Our voice needs to be heard.

]]> By: Andrew Rixon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330660 Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:42:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330660 This is public land. Developers will make an absolute financial killing if this goes ahead. That’s what it’s all about I think. It is so obviously the wrong thing to build on this site. There is a housing list of 33000. This proposal does not help the situation. Pictures are frightening

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330589 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:51:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330589 Ingenious graphically graphic imagery.

Stamping on the inhabitants of a thriving, cohesive community.

Annialating the everyday atmosphere and the people’s spirit for those who have built Spitalfield’s soul.

No daylight for residents in the Spitalfields homes swamped under shadows of these selfishly designed money makers

l find it difficult being a human to know other humans could group together to plot something so utterly destructive and so vile in its design.
Cantankerously unsimpathetic to the centuries old history here.

My favourite past time is walking around the historic buildings seeking the fascinating atmosphere of the capital’s ANCIENT conserved heritage.
l believe this is why visitors come to England.
At the rate of these obliterations, soon there will be nothing to to see and the revenue from Tourism will dry up.

The powers already KNOW the intended buildings are cheap and ugly therefore we must follow the GA’s direction and word our letters relevantly to save the deserving people of Spitalfields, their homes, their businesses and their right to quiet enjoyment with daylight.

]]> By: Kay https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330525 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:26:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330525 Overdevelopment of an area that will lose much of its history are already in towns/cities that do not really need it, as the identity is lost.

Also, as we are now trying to eliminate pollution, do developers really think that this is ideal? They will just add more and create havoc

]]> By: Penny Creed https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330517 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:19:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330517 This ten acre site could easily accommodate 1500 homes in a mid-rise scheme. Instead the developers have chosen to propose a scheme of just 500 (only 90 of which will be ‘low cost rent’).

55% of the 500 will be one bedroom with only 17% family sized (3/4 bed).

Of course this will probably change with time as the developers further negotiate the affordable housing provision down as they inevitably will.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330511 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:51:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330511 Great Visualization of the Problem! Hope everything dissolves in pleasure…

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330502 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:17:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330502 The likelihood of the land being used for public housing grows less with Borris’s Babes there as the final decision-makers. The prospect of allowing more working people, who have votes, as residents in an area that they have designated as their own property for commercial exploitation is simply not on. They will eventually turn Central London into an area that nobody will want to set foot in after 5pm ,not even for a drink!

]]> By: Jonathan Moberly https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/19/the-return-of-the-goodsyard-monster/#comment-1330500 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:41:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179778#comment-1330500 For more information about the campaign: http://www.goodsyard.org

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