Friends of Queen's Market say we can win... and they should know!

We recently met with Friends of Queen's Market a residents group just down the road in Upton Park that is fighting to save their wonderful, affordable and ethnically diverse market from redevelopment by St Modwen, the same developer that's planning a tower block on the Arcade site. We have lots in common, not least because we fear that the Arcade plans will be really bad news for our own world-famous street market.
FOQM gave us tonnes of advice but most importantly they showed us how collectively a bunch of ordinary residents can successfully fight plans like this. With a load of good old-fashioned campaigning they have got St Modwen on the back foot. It still hasn't submitted a planning application and Asda-Walmart has pulled out of the scheme because of the bad publicity!
Just goes to show what you can achieve if you get organised and fight... Speaking of which, have you joined our email list yet? If not, please click on the "email us!" link at the top-right of this page because we'd like to keep you in touch with news of our own fight.