Over 300 people turned out on Sunday at a public meeting in support of the EMD. It was good natured and informative event. Time and again members of the local community spoke passionately about the value of the EMD to Walthamstow as a cinema, and their fears about any scheme in which the UCKG proposed to share a small portion of it.
Notable highlights included;
- The transparently vacuous and nonsensical excuses given by the UCKG for not attending the public meeting
- Councillor Macklin's forthright condemnation of the Council's decisions throughout the EMD and Arcade saga, followed by the recollection [by other people] that he was party to those decisions and didn't ever oppose them.
- Councillor Wheeler's rambling riposte, in which he appeared to support pretty much everyone, especially if they want a swimming pool in the town centre and a running track in the sky above it.
The meeting concluded with votes on 4 key issues;
- Would the community prefer a revived EMD to a new multiplex - 100% in favour
- Do the community wish to proceed with the UCKG plan for shared use - 100% against
- Should the council pursue a Compulsory Purchase Order, and take control of the EMD building - 100% in favour
- Should the council agree a land swap with the UCKG; exchanging the EMD for facilities elsewhere - 90% in favour and 10% against
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