Sustainable Hackney2024-03-29T05:29:17ZCarolinehttps://sustainablehackney.org.uk/profile/Carolinehttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/68584292?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://sustainablehackney.org.uk/group/hmug/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1fhi32re9cdpe&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPlanning App for events on Olympics Site til 2014tag:sustainablehackney.org.uk,2013-05-04:6446498:Topic:206482013-05-04T08:49:50.599ZCarolinehttps://sustainablehackney.org.uk/profile/Caroline
<p>Thought I'd flag this up as it to some extent feeds into the discussion around Hackney's fantasies for Major Events on the Marshes. Planning App number 13/00179/FUM, screenshot via twitter from a concerned local who received it:</p>
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<p>Thought I'd flag this up as it to some extent feeds into the discussion around Hackney's fantasies for Major Events on the Marshes. Planning App number 13/00179/FUM, screenshot via twitter from a concerned local who received it:</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122609633?profile=original"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122609633?profile=original" width="600"/></a></p> Major Events proposals: new campaign publicity & pagestag:sustainablehackney.org.uk,2013-03-23:6446498:Topic:191572013-03-23T20:57:22.511ZCarolinehttps://sustainablehackney.org.uk/profile/Caroline
<p>HMUG's flyer is ready. Please download and print, or <a href="http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/hmug/contact" target="_self">contact us</a> for printed copies. Please hand out or stick up as many or few as you can. Every single one can make a difference.</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122609740?profile=original" target="_blank">HMUG Events Flyer.pdf</a></p>
<p>We've updated our pages to give detailed arguments for opposing the council's proposal:…</p>
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<p>HMUG's flyer is ready. Please download and print, or <a href="http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/hmug/contact" target="_self">contact us</a> for printed copies. Please hand out or stick up as many or few as you can. Every single one can make a difference.</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122609740?profile=original" target="_blank">HMUG Events Flyer.pdf</a></p>
<p>We've updated our pages to give detailed arguments for opposing the council's proposal:</p>
<p><a href="http://sustainablehackney.org.uk/hmug/planning" target="_self">HMUG Issues+Planning</a></p>
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<p></p> Marsh Events: Evening Standard 8/03/13 "Festivals Will Destroy Sport"tag:sustainablehackney.org.uk,2013-03-08:6446498:Topic:178122013-03-08T18:08:09.205ZCarolinehttps://sustainablehackney.org.uk/profile/Caroline
The Standard has this tonight at<br />
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<a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/more-festivals-will-destroy-sport-on-hackney-marshes-8526118.html">http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/more-festivals-will-destroy-sport-on-hackney-marshes-8526118.html</a><br />
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and page 36 of the print edition.<br />
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It talks about the sports aspect only. Good work by the Leagues and cricketers.<br />
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David
The Standard has this tonight at<br />
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<a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/more-festivals-will-destroy-sport-on-hackney-marshes-8526118.html">http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/more-festivals-will-destroy-sport-on-hackney-marshes-8526118.html</a><br />
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and page 36 of the print edition.<br />
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It talks about the sports aspect only. Good work by the Leagues and cricketers.<br />
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David Three 'Major events' on the marshes every summer?tag:sustainablehackney.org.uk,2013-02-21:6446498:Topic:164572013-02-21T15:04:46.257ZCarolinehttps://sustainablehackney.org.uk/profile/Caroline
<p>Hackney Council has announced that it would like to hold 'major public events' on Hackney Marshes every summer. To do this it needs permission in principle from the Planning Inspectorate (known as PINS). Before the PINS application, the council will be consulting local people and groups.</p>
<p>This is <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122607480?profile=original" target="_self">the council's preliminary letter</a> which HMUG received on 20 February. Consultation…</p>
<p>Hackney Council has announced that it would like to hold 'major public events' on Hackney Marshes every summer. To do this it needs permission in principle from the Planning Inspectorate (known as PINS). Before the PINS application, the council will be consulting local people and groups.</p>
<p>This is <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122607480?profile=original" target="_self">the council's preliminary letter</a> which HMUG received on 20 February. Consultation runs from 26 February for eight weeks, i.e. till 22nd April. Permission would be for five years, and apply between 1st May and 31st August. Each event would still go through the council's events approval process, which was revised in 2011-12 with an apparent view to increasing income from green space events.</p>
<p>The obvious questions are whether the council can manage such events without disproportionate loss of the use of the marshes to local people, and without lasting damage to the marshes' ecological value and amenities. On the evidence of last year's Radio 1 Hackney Weekend their ability is questionable. It closed off large parts of the marsh for 4 weeks and the scars are visible and possibly permanent.</p>
<p>The council's 2011 Events Policy aims to hold 3 such events every summer on the marshes, which if organised in the same way would close down the marshes for the whole summer.</p>
<p>We'll be pulling together evidence and opinions, and doing as much as we can to publicise and talk to people. If you have information, anecdotes or photos please post them here or <a href="mailto:contact@hmug.org.uk" target="_blank">send them to us</a>. If you have time & energy to give to working on this, please step forward!</p> Hackney Weekend - how was it for you?tag:sustainablehackney.org.uk,2012-07-09:6446498:Topic:125392012-07-09T15:41:14.342ZCarolinehttps://sustainablehackney.org.uk/profile/Caroline
<div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>After the 4-week closure of parts of Hackney Marshes for the Hackney Weekend, we'd like to get the experiences & views of anyone who uses the Marshes.</p>
<p>Hackney Council envisages up to three events attracting 100,000 people on the marsh every year, under its new events policy (April 2012). When the next event is proposed we would like to be ready with the evidence from this one.</p>
<p>Did the closures and the Weekend affect you?…</p>
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<div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>After the 4-week closure of parts of Hackney Marshes for the Hackney Weekend, we'd like to get the experiences & views of anyone who uses the Marshes.</p>
<p>Hackney Council envisages up to three events attracting 100,000 people on the marsh every year, under its new events policy (April 2012). When the next event is proposed we would like to be ready with the evidence from this one.</p>
<p>Did the closures and the Weekend affect you? Please let us know, with a comment here or at contact@hmug.org.uk.</p>
<p>Tim, for HMUG</p>
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