Save Little Green Street (Dead End Street)

[Guest In Black]

Just had an email from the Little Green Street (where the Dead End Street video was filmed) people;

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Remember Little Green Street?

The developers of a 'gated community' with underground car-parking at the end of one of London's few remaining cobbled Georgian terraces are putting a large London plane tree at risk and proposing to tear out a 100 yard-long hedge (featured in Time Out's London Walks) as part of their plans.

Camden Council will be considering the application to 'landscape' the proposed development on 24 August.

Please email [e-mail] and copy [e-mail] ***before 16 August*** to register your objection to the developer's inadequate plans to protect the tree and wildlife habitat that is the hedge. The proposals MUST be refused if there are risks to the tree and hedgerow.

Why are we worried? It's only a twenty thousand pound fine if the tree is 'accidentally' killed, which is a small price to pay when considered in the context of a twenty MILLION pound development...

You can read the developer's proposals (but to give you a clue, getting the species of tree wrong, omitting to mention the seventeen vehicle underground car-park and most alarmingly of all, reneging on a promise to keep the hedge in their original application isn't promising, but read for yourself) at
planningrecords.camden.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/GeneralSearch.aspx Simply enter 2007/3323/P in application number.

You'll find some comments which you might want to make in your objection at our blog .

We really appreciate your support. Please forward this mail to your friends and anyone else who cares about one of the few remaining bits of a London we'll all miss when it's gone.

Thank you!

Check out www.littlegreenstreet.com

and visit our blog at littlegreenst.livejournal.com/

Sign the petition at www.ipetitions.com/petition/littlegreenstreet/

[debbie]

Thanks for letting us know about this, GIB.
I am sick to death of seeing the way that developers want to rip anything with any character out of London. Thats quite apart from the fact that yet another habitat for urban wildlife would disapear with the loss of this tree and hedge.

[mrlennie]

Hear Hear!

[Smiley]

We are the "Little Green Street" Preservation Society!
Thanks GIB!

[blamo]

demolition

[blamo]

SIGN SIGN SIGN dont let the bassers win

[franklima]

I hear you knocking but you can't come in

princessmarina said:

We are the "Little Green Street" Preservation Society!
I hear you knocking but you can't come in

[HollyH]

;D Yesterday's Evening Standard did a piece that mentions my book (not yet out in stores) and how Little Green Street was one of the sites I chose to cover in 500 Places to See Before They Disappear. Would have been nice if they'd mentioned my name in the piece but at least it got some publicity for the dispute -- which is still being appealed, despite a court victory this past February. Here's the link:

www.littlegreenstreet.com/ Click on the page for The Great Pyramids of er, Dartmouth Park

Tomorrow ITV will be doing a follow-up...unfortunately they won't fly me over there to be interviewed in person, but one of the Frommer's editors in London will be my spokesperson. I did of course tell her to mention the Kinks connection.

[Iñakink]

That's very cool!

[nicola6]

Great, Holly!