SAVE WANTSEAD FLATS! MASS COMMUNITY PICNIC!
Sunday 5th September
All welcome at 1.00pm on the spot to the west of Centre Road where the police want to site their Olympic operations base in 2012
Ever since over 250 attended a packed public meeting in July, residents living near Wanstead Flats have been demanding answers about plans by the City of London Corporation to allow the Metropolitan Police to base its Olympic operational centre on the Flats in 2012. In order to push this proposal through, the Corporation would need to amend an Act of Parliament that has protected Wanstead Flats for community use for well over a century.
Local people want to know why the proposed site for this police base, west of Centre Road, has been chosen, how that decision was made and why the Olympic stadium site itself cannot be used. There has been no consultation, even though the plans involve locating a fenced, high-security compound – with building, parking areas, stables and apparently even police holding cells – for at least 120 days and so close to residential neighbourhoods.
The Save Wanstead Flats Campaign is organised by local people and on Sunday 5th September, we would like to invite you to show your opposition to the City of London Corporation’s plans by joining us for a picnic – occupying the very spot where the police operations base would be constructed.
Bring Food! Picnic blankets, your children, and your friends! Meet all your neighbours who also want to save Wanstead Flats!
Please copy this and pass on to friends and neighbours and those concerned with the environment and wildlife in London
Don’t give the property developers, banks and corporate lawyers a chance and a legal loophole to ruin Wanstead Flats!
C/o Community Involvement Unit, Durning Hall, Earlham Grove, London E7 9AB
Email: savewanstedflats@gmail.com
Save Wanstead Flats Campaign: http://www.savewansteadflats.org.uk/
SWFC on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-Wanstead-Flats-and-Epping-Forest/142307172448681
Article in The Socialist, ‘Save Wanstead Flats’, 4th August 2010: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/10074/04-08-2010/save-wanstead-flats
‘Does Wanstead Flats Really Need Saving?’ by Flash Bristow, in the Epping Forest, Waltham Forest and Wanstead and Woodford Guardian, 24th August 2010, online at: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/blogs/8350467.Does_Wanstead_Flats_really_need_saving_/?ref=rss
‘Plan to sell off nature reserves risks ‘austerity countryside’, by Juliette Jowitt, Severin Carrell and John Vidal, The Guardian, Friday 13th August 2010, at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/plan-sell-nature-reserves-austerity-countryside
Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk
All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com
Sunday 5th September
All welcome at 1.00pm on the spot to the west of Centre Road where the police want to site their Olympic operations base in 2012
Ever since over 250 attended a packed public meeting in July, residents living near Wanstead Flats have been demanding answers about plans by the City of London Corporation to allow the Metropolitan Police to base its Olympic operational centre on the Flats in 2012. In order to push this proposal through, the Corporation would need to amend an Act of Parliament that has protected Wanstead Flats for community use for well over a century.
Local people want to know why the proposed site for this police base, west of Centre Road, has been chosen, how that decision was made and why the Olympic stadium site itself cannot be used. There has been no consultation, even though the plans involve locating a fenced, high-security compound – with building, parking areas, stables and apparently even police holding cells – for at least 120 days and so close to residential neighbourhoods.
The Save Wanstead Flats Campaign is organised by local people and on Sunday 5th September, we would like to invite you to show your opposition to the City of London Corporation’s plans by joining us for a picnic – occupying the very spot where the police operations base would be constructed.
Bring Food! Picnic blankets, your children, and your friends! Meet all your neighbours who also want to save Wanstead Flats!
Please copy this and pass on to friends and neighbours and those concerned with the environment and wildlife in London
Don’t give the property developers, banks and corporate lawyers a chance and a legal loophole to ruin Wanstead Flats!
C/o Community Involvement Unit, Durning Hall, Earlham Grove, London E7 9AB
Email: savewanstedflats@gmail.com
Save Wanstead Flats Campaign: http://www.savewansteadflats.org.uk/
SWFC on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-Wanstead-Flats-and-Epping-Forest/142307172448681
Article in The Socialist, ‘Save Wanstead Flats’, 4th August 2010: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/10074/04-08-2010/save-wanstead-flats
‘Does Wanstead Flats Really Need Saving?’ by Flash Bristow, in the Epping Forest, Waltham Forest and Wanstead and Woodford Guardian, 24th August 2010, online at: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/blogs/8350467.Does_Wanstead_Flats_really_need_saving_/?ref=rss
‘Plan to sell off nature reserves risks ‘austerity countryside’, by Juliette Jowitt, Severin Carrell and John Vidal, The Guardian, Friday 13th August 2010, at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/plan-sell-nature-reserves-austerity-countryside
Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk
All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com
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