GLA Draft Plan for the ‘City Fringe’ – please act now! Deadline: 4th July

Dear Local Community Groups Leaders in and around Weavers and the
Shoreditch area, concerned residents and small local businesses,

Consultation deadline: July 4th – please print and send the letter
attached, signed by you/your group or write your own.Important: Please
forward or deliver the objection letter to all your members, neighbours
and friends.
The GLA is currently taking comments on its Draft Plan for the “City
Fringe”.

This very important document will determine the future of Bethnal Green,
Shoreditch, Hoxton, Old Street and the surrounding areas.

The main thrust of the GLA’s plans for us is tower blocks.

The GLA wants tower blocks to stretch from the bottom of Shoreditch High
St to the Rich Mix Centre on Bethnal Green Road. The GLA doesn’t want to
set a height on these tower blocks. Every single site the GLA has
earmarked as being suitable for high-rise, high density development is a
site developers are already planning to build on.

Some of these planned developments are 50 storeys high. The Gherkin is 40
storeys high.

If this document goes through as it is it will give a legal framework to
the GLA’s and the developers’ plans.

But we can protest; we can be heard en mass. Join the fight to stop over
and inappropriate development by signing and sending off this letter.

You must put your full address, including postcode, on the attached
letter.  Your voice counts, together we will be heard, alone we are lost.

Help stop the march of the towers and protest TODAY.

This is a residential area! Where will they stop?

To look at the GLA’s document go to http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning/docs/cityfringe/foreword.pdf or
call the GLA on 020 7983 4100.

Remember – the consultation ends on July 4 – if you don’t write the GLA
will count silence as support.

From: Save Shoreditch Campaign – trying to keep everyone informed.