Planning meeting announced: Please come along
The planning meeting has been announced to review the planning applications.
It is on : Weds 6th October from 6:30pm at Hackney Town Hall.
We are planning a protest outside the Town Hall from 6pm Please come along to show your support for the No Clapton Tesco Campaign and help keep Tesco out of Lower Clapton Road.
Myself, my flatmates and at least 20 of my friends all live within 5 minutes’ walk of Lower Clapton Road. We are all very much in favour of a Tesco opening on it. Please do not presume that you speak for everyone in Clapton. I have written to the council to state my support.
We certainly don’t think we speak for everyone. Tesco didn’t tell anyone that they wanted to open on LCR and submitted the applications under another company, we just wanted to let people know so they have the chance to make a choice either way.
“We certainly don’t think we speak for everyone. Tesco didn’t tell anyone that they wanted to open on LCR and submitted the applications under another company, we just wanted to let people know so they have the chance to make a choice either way.”
SO WHY DO YOUR PLACARDS READ; “CLAPTON SAYS NO TO TESCO”?
Because the more accurate “Some of the people who live in Clapton say no to Tesco, some want it, some aren’t that bothered either way and the rest haven’t heard about the new Tesco” wouldn’t fit on the placards?
There is no end to this process. Tesco will then want to open yet more stores even closer together until they have a private monopoly (which is the logical conclusion of their business model). There are presently I believe 7 Tesco stores including a hypermarket (which still isn’t big enough for them) in Hackney.Why not lobby to have one built next door to you – or even move into a flat right above a Tesco express if it is that good. I suspect the council is powerless to fight, whether it thinks it is bad – we elect councillors or mayors, but in the end they have no clout against large companies like Tesco who can exhaust anyone’s funds in a fight – and they constantly appeal until they get their way, they sponsor events at political party conferences and one has no democratic control over them. We might as well leave it all to them – like Tower Hamlets have done, in creating a Tesco town . Any Mayor Jules pipe wants diversity in Hackney. Don’t make me laugh.
I live on the estate that Tesco Express are trying to move into and there are many reasons I don’t want them there, some are about the impact on residents that live there, some are to do with the impact that it will have on the pond area through deliveries and general mess, others are to do with the fact that the building was built for the purpose of 3 community businesses and never for a Tesco Express and the obvious fact that Tesco Express is opening next to Hackney Downs station suggests that if I really need it I can walk there.