Petition Tag - tram depot

London's historic Horse Drawn Tram Depot site is about to be signed away unless people come out in numbers to support our campaign to save it!!

Please sign this NEW petition!

DEADLINE EXTENDED! PLEASE KEEP SIGNING

PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR FRIENDS

read on!!

We are asking everyone and their friends, to help us fight against a planning proposal that is threatening to destroy a real Hackney gem which will effectively close the site's highly active medium/light industrial small manufacturing businesses, artisans, and artist/designers, and result in about 100 people losing their jobs.

The site was recently designated a PRIORITY EMPLOYMENT AREA and locally listed by Hackney Planning but the submitted plan is for 85 flats and a 30-40% REDUCTION IN WORKSPACE, and all as B1 office/light commercial units (there are many empty B1 spaces in the nearby Latham's development).

The granting of PEA status should protect the existing jobs on site which the application fails to do.

We urge you to STRONGLY OPPOSE the application - this is the fourth application by the developer to destroy this unique site.

Originally the Tram Depot was built for the horse drawn trams, with the tram engineering works housed below the upper storey stabling.

This historic site is now home to many thriving small businesses including several furniture makers, moulded plaster workers, forged metal workers, 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 affect the wider area with severe pressure on already stretched local services.

Here is how you can get involved:

SIGN THIS PETITION opposing Application 2010/2879 as the quickest way to object

or go to: Save_the_Tramdepot

for details on:

1) Most effective opposition

or how to

2) object directly to the Planning Dept.


Where you can also use a link to view the application

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!

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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!!!!

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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

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