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Save the Tram Depot Workshops, 38-40 Upper Clapton Rd
Published by Save the Tram Depot 2010 on Dec 26, 2009
213 Signatures 
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Target: Hackney council planning department - Application 2009/2490
Region: United Kingdom
Web site: http://tramdepot.wikispot.org/Front_Page
Background (Preamble):
THIS PETITION IS NOW CLOSED!!!
THE DEVELOPER HAS PUT IN A NEW APPLICATION
TO OPPOSE THE NEW APPLICATION PLEASE GOT TO
NEW PETITION
PLEASE SIGN BEFORE
JAN 31ST 2011
THANKYOU!!!!
___________________________________________________
NEWS UPDATE: July 16, 2010
Although the planning sub-committee has approved the application 4:3 it is not the end of the story. Well over 1,200 objections have been sent in by letter, email, written petitions and this petition.
We are continuing to fight this badly flawed decision and still need your support so please do sign the petition if you haven't already done so.
NEWS UPDATE!! TODAY, 29TH JUNE 2010
London's only fully intact Horse Drawn Tram Depot site is about to be signed away unless people come out in numbers to support our campaign to save it at the
Hackney Planning Sub-committee's meeting at
6.30pm
TODAY!! Tuesday 29 JUNE.
MEET 5.45-6pm IN FRONT OF HACKNEY TOWN HALL
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NEWS UPDATE!! APRIL 2010
STILL NO DECISION BY HACKNEY PLANNING DEPT.!!
There is now a discussion about how to make the Tram Depot into an Arts Trust/Centre
see:
TramDepotArtsTrust
Please sign the NEW petition:
TramDepotArtsTrust_Petition
The proposal includes the new Trust retaining those businesses that are arts allied, and that the Arts Council may look upon a guaranteed income from renting out other units to small industry (ie. to the other current residents) as a good thing.
STOP PRESS - PLEASE ALSO SIGN THE NEW PETITION
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/area-action-plan-for-clapton.html
We are asking everyone and their friends, to help us fight against a planning proposal that is threatening to destroy a real Hackney gem, shut many active small businesses and result in about 100 workers losing their jobs.
**DEADLINE EXTENDED**
PLEASE KEEP SIGNING
THE APPLICATION WILL POSSIBLY GO TO COMMITTEE - EARLIEST WOULD BE AFTER MARCH 10TH - OBJECTIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE COUNCIL UP UNTIL THEN
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR FRIENDS
Hackney council will be looking to pass a planning application for the Tram Depot site at 38-40 Upper Clapton Road. Originally the Tram Depot was built for the horse drawn trams, with the tram engineering works housed below the upper storey stabling. Now this historic site, one of the last in Clapton, is home to many thriving small businesses including furniture makers, fabric suppliers, artists, various car services, an ever expanding foam factory and Clapton's only two galleries, the Tram Depot and Vulpes Vulpes. The application proposes the destruction of the site to be replaced by ‘same as everywhere else’ flats with a much reduced area for office and light commercial usage but no guarantee of occupancy. This will destroy the thriving site and ruin the livelihoods of over 100 people and effect the wider area with severe pressure on already stretched local services. Furthermore, the plan's inclusion of the ubiquitous 'local store' to be run by one of the big players will ruin local shopkeepers.
Please help us by opposing this application we have until 14th January 2010 to object to the demolition of the historic Tram Depot, 38-40 Upper Clapton Road!
Here is how you can get involved:
You have three ways to voice your opposition to Application 2009/2490, and don’t forget to state ‘If the application goes to committee I would like to be advised of the date.’
1) Most effective opposition:
To email your opposition to the Planning Officer Ian Bailey directly
Ian.Bailey@Hackney.gov.uk
an objection letter has been prepared for you to cut and paste:
http://tramdepot.wikispot.org/Front_Page
Remember to put you name and address or your objection won't count.
2) The quickest opposition:
Sign this petition and send it to everyone you know! We need as many signatures as possible for our voice to be heard!
Please fill in your address so your signature counts fully as an objection.
3) To object directly to the Planning Dept. go here [remember to tick the box saying you OPPOSE the planning application!]:
http://idox.hackney.gov.uk/WAM/createComment.do;jsessionid=1280E4A609053F723AC399579922E846?action=CreateApplicationComment&applicationType=PLANNING&appNumber=2009/2490
To view the plan go here :
http://idox.hackney.gov.uk/WAM/showCaseFile.do?action=show&appType=Planning&appNumber=2009/2490
THE DEVELOPER HAS PUT IN A NEW APPLICATION
TO OPPOSE THE NEW APPLICATION PLEASE GOT TO
NEW PETITION
PLEASE SIGN BEFORE
JAN 31ST 2011
THANKYOU!!!!
___________________________________________________
NEWS UPDATE: July 16, 2010
Although the planning sub-committee has approved the application 4:3 it is not the end of the story. Well over 1,200 objections have been sent in by letter, email, written petitions and this petition.
We are continuing to fight this badly flawed decision and still need your support so please do sign the petition if you haven't already done so.
NEWS UPDATE!! TODAY, 29TH JUNE 2010
London's only fully intact Horse Drawn Tram Depot site is about to be signed away unless people come out in numbers to support our campaign to save it at the
Hackney Planning Sub-committee's meeting at
6.30pm
TODAY!! Tuesday 29 JUNE.
MEET 5.45-6pm IN FRONT OF HACKNEY TOWN HALL
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWS UPDATE!! APRIL 2010
STILL NO DECISION BY HACKNEY PLANNING DEPT.!!
There is now a discussion about how to make the Tram Depot into an Arts Trust/Centre
see:
TramDepotArtsTrust
Please sign the NEW petition:
TramDepotArtsTrust_Petition
The proposal includes the new Trust retaining those businesses that are arts allied, and that the Arts Council may look upon a guaranteed income from renting out other units to small industry (ie. to the other current residents) as a good thing.
STOP PRESS - PLEASE ALSO SIGN THE NEW PETITION
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/area-action-plan-for-clapton.html
We are asking everyone and their friends, to help us fight against a planning proposal that is threatening to destroy a real Hackney gem, shut many active small businesses and result in about 100 workers losing their jobs.
**DEADLINE EXTENDED**
PLEASE KEEP SIGNING
THE APPLICATION WILL POSSIBLY GO TO COMMITTEE - EARLIEST WOULD BE AFTER MARCH 10TH - OBJECTIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE COUNCIL UP UNTIL THEN
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR FRIENDS
Hackney council will be looking to pass a planning application for the Tram Depot site at 38-40 Upper Clapton Road. Originally the Tram Depot was built for the horse drawn trams, with the tram engineering works housed below the upper storey stabling. Now this historic site, one of the last in Clapton, is home to many thriving small businesses including furniture makers, fabric suppliers, artists, various car services, an ever expanding foam factory and Clapton's only two galleries, the Tram Depot and Vulpes Vulpes. The application proposes the destruction of the site to be replaced by ‘same as everywhere else’ flats with a much reduced area for office and light commercial usage but no guarantee of occupancy. This will destroy the thriving site and ruin the livelihoods of over 100 people and effect the wider area with severe pressure on already stretched local services. Furthermore, the plan's inclusion of the ubiquitous 'local store' to be run by one of the big players will ruin local shopkeepers.
Please help us by opposing this application we have until 14th January 2010 to object to the demolition of the historic Tram Depot, 38-40 Upper Clapton Road!
Here is how you can get involved:
You have three ways to voice your opposition to Application 2009/2490, and don’t forget to state ‘If the application goes to committee I would like to be advised of the date.’
1) Most effective opposition:
To email your opposition to the Planning Officer Ian Bailey directly
Ian.Bailey@Hackney.gov.uk
an objection letter has been prepared for you to cut and paste:
http://tramdepot.wikispot.org/Front_Page
Remember to put you name and address or your objection won't count.
2) The quickest opposition:
Sign this petition and send it to everyone you know! We need as many signatures as possible for our voice to be heard!
Please fill in your address so your signature counts fully as an objection.
3) To object directly to the Planning Dept. go here [remember to tick the box saying you OPPOSE the planning application!]:
http://idox.hackney.gov.uk/WAM/createComment.do;jsessionid=1280E4A609053F723AC399579922E846?action=CreateApplicationComment&applicationType=PLANNING&appNumber=2009/2490
To view the plan go here :
http://idox.hackney.gov.uk/WAM/showCaseFile.do?action=show&appType=Planning&appNumber=2009/2490
Petition:
Objection to Planning Application 2009/2490.
Dear Ian Bailey
We, the undersigned, are writing to object in the strongest possible terms to the proposed demolition of the Tram Depot site, 38-40 Upper Clapton Rd.
These are the principal objections:
The demolition will lose Hackney people their jobs
The current site is a busy and active working site, with every single space used. Most businesses have been there between 10 – 20 years! An estimated 100+ jobs directly depend on the site. Such spaces that have all but disappeared in Hackney, and as a result of compulsory Olympic purchases, in East London generally. The proposal completely underestimates the number of livelihoods that depend on the site. The kind of work they do cannot take place in the proposed mix of B1 office and light industrial usage spaces envisaged in the application, and there are no guarantees of occupancy. The closure of such businesses would have a huge knock-on effect to cause substantial direct and indirect job losses. Furthermore, the plan's inclusion of the ubiquitous 'local store' to be run by one of the big players will ruin local shopkeepers.
The proposed site significantly increases traffic congestion
The proposed entrance to the development is on a blind spot and near a bus stop on one of Transport For London's designated arterial routes, the A107 (Upper Clapton Rd).
The '''92''' proposed 1-4 bed flats will significantly increase the number of car-trips coming from the site. The developer contends that the number of these car-trips by the new residents can be reduced by encouraging non-car dependent transport such as buses, train, cycling and walking, simply through the provision of information boards on the new site! His consultants suggest that a reduction of 5-15% of trips can be made between 2 and 10 years !! Thus they
accept that the increased car-trips emanating from the site will significantly add to congestion to this already busy arterial route.
The loss of designer & artist spaces in Hackney
The site houses the only remaining active group of artists and designers left in North Hackney—the rest have already been evicted from nearby sites to make way for new build
housing developments. Artists and creative industries are important to communities. There are over 30 active artists who use the units as their studios, and two gallery spaces, the Tram Depot Gallery and Vulpes Vulpes both have successful track records of innovative exhibitions open to the local as well as art-specialist community.
It is an inappropriate proposal
The proposed development will set a poor precedent physically, in terms of its height and density.
Such a large development fronted by six and seven storey elevations so close to the Lea Bridge Roundabout will dramatically affect the aspect and light levels for the Beaumont Court, the Beecholme Estate, and Casimir Road residential areas. Issues of privacy are also raised as a
large part of the proposed development overlooks much of this existing housing.
It does not respect the heritage of Hackney
The proposal suggests that the retention of the two distinctive gabled outer walls of the Tram Depot demonstrates sensitivity to the loss of Clapton's heritage! The retention of the walls is meaningless and another crass example of facadism!!
This part of the Tram Depot will be gutted! with a six storey building rising up through its roof! and running the whole
length of the building as seen from Prout Rd. All the rest will be demolished!
Furthermore, the need for the application is questionable in the light of it being so similar to at least 3 other large scale new build housing developments in the close vicinity, including the '''old Latham’s Timber Yard''' site, and other adjacent sites on the canal. Both are no more than
half a mile away and many of the commercial units provided remain empty.
To summarise, this application should be rejected. It will destroy established local businesses, put dangerous pressures on roads and services, and is fueled purely by a get rich quick mentality.
Dear Ian Bailey
We, the undersigned, are writing to object in the strongest possible terms to the proposed demolition of the Tram Depot site, 38-40 Upper Clapton Rd.
These are the principal objections:
The demolition will lose Hackney people their jobs
The current site is a busy and active working site, with every single space used. Most businesses have been there between 10 – 20 years! An estimated 100+ jobs directly depend on the site. Such spaces that have all but disappeared in Hackney, and as a result of compulsory Olympic purchases, in East London generally. The proposal completely underestimates the number of livelihoods that depend on the site. The kind of work they do cannot take place in the proposed mix of B1 office and light industrial usage spaces envisaged in the application, and there are no guarantees of occupancy. The closure of such businesses would have a huge knock-on effect to cause substantial direct and indirect job losses. Furthermore, the plan's inclusion of the ubiquitous 'local store' to be run by one of the big players will ruin local shopkeepers.
The proposed site significantly increases traffic congestion
The proposed entrance to the development is on a blind spot and near a bus stop on one of Transport For London's designated arterial routes, the A107 (Upper Clapton Rd).
The '''92''' proposed 1-4 bed flats will significantly increase the number of car-trips coming from the site. The developer contends that the number of these car-trips by the new residents can be reduced by encouraging non-car dependent transport such as buses, train, cycling and walking, simply through the provision of information boards on the new site! His consultants suggest that a reduction of 5-15% of trips can be made between 2 and 10 years !! Thus they
accept that the increased car-trips emanating from the site will significantly add to congestion to this already busy arterial route.
The loss of designer & artist spaces in Hackney
The site houses the only remaining active group of artists and designers left in North Hackney—the rest have already been evicted from nearby sites to make way for new build
housing developments. Artists and creative industries are important to communities. There are over 30 active artists who use the units as their studios, and two gallery spaces, the Tram Depot Gallery and Vulpes Vulpes both have successful track records of innovative exhibitions open to the local as well as art-specialist community.
It is an inappropriate proposal
The proposed development will set a poor precedent physically, in terms of its height and density.
Such a large development fronted by six and seven storey elevations so close to the Lea Bridge Roundabout will dramatically affect the aspect and light levels for the Beaumont Court, the Beecholme Estate, and Casimir Road residential areas. Issues of privacy are also raised as a
large part of the proposed development overlooks much of this existing housing.
It does not respect the heritage of Hackney
The proposal suggests that the retention of the two distinctive gabled outer walls of the Tram Depot demonstrates sensitivity to the loss of Clapton's heritage! The retention of the walls is meaningless and another crass example of facadism!!
This part of the Tram Depot will be gutted! with a six storey building rising up through its roof! and running the whole
length of the building as seen from Prout Rd. All the rest will be demolished!
Furthermore, the need for the application is questionable in the light of it being so similar to at least 3 other large scale new build housing developments in the close vicinity, including the '''old Latham’s Timber Yard''' site, and other adjacent sites on the canal. Both are no more than
half a mile away and many of the commercial units provided remain empty.
To summarise, this application should be rejected. It will destroy established local businesses, put dangerous pressures on roads and services, and is fueled purely by a get rich quick mentality.
The Save the Tram Depot Workshops, 38-40 Upper Clapton Rd petition to Hackney council planning department - Application 2009/2490 was written by Save the Tram Depot 2010 and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition. Contact author here. Petition tags: tram depot, save, development, historic clapton, hackney
