Saturday 1 March, 11am – 2pm
CPRE London campaign, amongst other things, to improve the day to day quality of life for Londoners and for greener neighbourhoods. They have worked with Commonplace to create a free online tool which they will be launching at the Garden this Saturday. They describe the tool as:
‘A different way for you to share your ideas about your neighbourhood. Using your phone, home computer or other internet device, you can comment in real time, share your views, and also find out what other people in your neighbourhood think. Information is immediately available to you or your organisation’.
CPRE will also use the information gathered to develop guidelines and advice for planners, architects and developers to help inform them on the issues that people consider important about the places where they live. You can come along on Saturday to meet with people from CPRE, register online for Dalston.commonplace.is and start commenting on what’s important to you living in Dalston.
Following on from last Tuesday night’s planning meeting concerning the future of Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, we will also be gathering feedback about the current proposals. If you attended the meeting, please come along and let us know what you thought and if you weren’t able to attend why not drop in to hear more about what was discussed.
Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 6.30pm
Stoke Newington Town Hall
Stoke Newington Church Street
N16 0JR
On Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 6.30pm, Criterion Capital the owners of the Kingsland Shopping Centre are presenting the latest version of their redevelopment plans to Hackney Council Planning Sub-Committee. These plans will impact on the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, as most of the land on which it sits is owned by Criterion Capital. Hackney Council own the remaining part, at the entrance to the Garden. Criterion Capital made their initial proposals public for the first time last summer.
Criterion Capital’s website for the redevelopment of the Kingsland Shopping Centre currently states:
“Since the beginning of the public consultation and following comments from local residents and stakeholders significant changes have been made to the proposals including… Keeping the garden at the western end of the Eastern Curve.”
Criterion Capital have now had several meetings with Hackney Council to discuss their proposals. You can read what the Hackney Planning Department’s response to these plans is here.
Please come along on Tuesday night to hear what the developers are planning for this major development in Dalston, in particular about ‘keeping the garden at the western end of the Eastern Curve’.
Tuesday night’s meeting will not decide on planning permission, Criterion Capital intend to submit their formal planning application later in the year. Hackney Council are holding this meeting to offer the developers an opportunity to present their plans in advance of making that planning application and to allow the Planning Sub-committee to ask questions about the proposals. Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting, but unfortunately are not allowed to ask questions or make comment.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at Stoke Newington Town Hall on Tuesday evening!
