ACT NOW if you object to the giant telly in Walthamstow Town Square broadcasting (with sound) 16 hours a day, every day of the year, for the next four years.
Please send a quick email to Rachel.Jagger@walthamforest.gov.uk with your objections. She must receive them by the morning of Tuesday 5th August for them to be considered by the planning committee that night.
The screen already has planning permission. That battle is lost. But the applicant (the council) was told to return to the planning committee with revised operating hours. Instead it has (rather arrogantly, in our opinion) sent a letter attempting to justify the original operating hours proposed. These are 7am-11pm - the screen would be broadcasting both video and sound for all those hours. And it wants to start on Friday 8th August!
The truth is, the contract with the BBC (as yet unsigned) insists on those hours. But there is no real justification for them. And plenty of reasons for concern.
Our proposal is that the hours are approved... but only for six months. That way the screen can prove itself through the Beijing Olympics and beyond. Or else our concerns will be proven to be valid. It's called giving them enough rope...
OBJECT NOW!
Below are two documents to download: a detailed objection that has been sent in by the Cleveland Park Residents' Association. Plus a template to make it easy for you to write your own objection letter/email. It basically says that you support the main points in the CPRA objection and then gives room for you to add your own comments/points (which is important - the council will take your letter far more seriously if you personalise it).
Deadline: morning of Tuesday 5th August at the very latest.
CPRA objection letter
Objection letter to personalise
Monday, 21 July 2008
Giant telly: object now!
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The national press have woken up to this rather late in the day. See TimesOnline 25th July.
According to the article this and other screens will become the focus of a national party on August 24 when the closing ceremony of the Games marks the official hand-over to London.On hand-over day, which falls on a Bank Holiday weekend, regional choirs will assemble at the “live sites” to lead a 15-minute mass singalong incorporating a national song designed to warm up the public for 2012.
Let's hope the ban on alcohol will be effectively in place by then. It was to have come into effect at the end of July, but no one's told the "regulars" in the square that.
Isn't it ironic. Thousands of tv's in the borough and what do we get - the grand daddy of them all. Not one cinema and not a squeak!
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