NOW OR NEVER- Friends of Queen's Market (used to be 08/04/2009)

Friends of Queen's Market DATE OF COMMITTEE Newham Council's Planning Department has confirmed Wednesday 8th April 2009, 6.30pm as the date and time to decide on whether to approve the St. Modwen scheme for Queen's Market in Upton Park. FoQM are asking all interested parties to meet outside the Town Hall in East Ham from 5.30pm and protest against the demolition of 110 year old Queen's Market which is proposed to be replaced with hundreds of private flats (mostly unaffordable to locals), tower blocks of 18 and 31 storeys high and a characterless market hall, whilst increasing rents and service charges for traders and shop keepers at the detriment of local people's access to cheap, affordable and culturally appropriate food. For the last 5 years Newham Council and their "preferred" developers St. Modwen have attempted to destroy Queen's Market with a scheme deemed a "cultural attack" and "racially devisive" by local people and users of the market, with bogus consultations and no end of spin in order to legitimise their unpopular scheme. To date the scheme has recieved a record number of objections; 12,000 petition in 2006 against St. Modwen's involvement on the site followed by over 2,500 individually written objection letters to the plans since May 2008. But still they're not listening! This is the most important date yet in the campaign, make sure you don't miss it! JOIN US... DATE: WEDNESDAY 8th APRIL ‘09 TIME: 5.30 PM onwards PLACE: NEWHAM TOWN HALL (East Ham High Street) Please reply to this advert if you will be attending. Thank you.