Almost 5,000 of you have signed the SOS Save Our South Bank petition - Thank You!
You recognised that London’s South Bank – one of the UK’s most popular open spaces – is threatened by the ill-conceived redevelopment of the former ITV studios on 72 Upper Ground.
In your comments you really showed you cared, and you do not want the planned pair of overbearing office tower blocks to dominate and overshadow neighbouring homes and ruin the London skyline from both sides of the Thames.
A crucial result!
Our powerful campaign – supported by our local MP Florence Eshalomi, and councillors, with objections from Historic England, the Twentieth Century Society, and the National Theatre – provided the groundswell that has resulted in the government calling-in the planning application for a public inquiry. This is a fantastic result! Thank you for helping us!
Next stage
Your support is more important than ever to push forward with the next stage of the campaign - the legal fight against what has become known as “The Slab”, labelled as an “aggressive eyesore” by Simon Jenkins in The Guardian.
Our target is to raise £15,000 to pay for our full participation in the public inquiry, where we will be able to present our case and cross-examine witnesses.
With your help we got the result that our community needs - a public inquiry. Together, with your continued help, we can win. We have all the facts on our side. Please donate today and do your bit to Stop the Slab! https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/save-our-south-bank
How your donation will help
It is a David -v- Goliath battle: any donation – no matter how large or small – will help us meet the costs of representing the case against this development at the public inquiry.
We need to frame the arguments in legal terms, fund the cost of calling expert witnesses, spend time reviewing and refuting the developer’s claims and then go up against a team of expensive and experienced barristers and professional witnesses.
All funds raised via this site will be held and used specifically for the costs we will incur in mounting our challenge to the 72 Upper Ground development.
Why are we doing this?
The Mitsubishi estate bought ITV’s former studios in 2020 but propose to bulldoze everything including the existing tower and build speculative offices 50% taller and more than double the size, unnecessarily throwing over 100,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. The prominent site means it would be visible from miles around and would destroy treasured views, rob social housing of daylight, and cast the Queen’s Walkway, Riverside Walkway and Bernie Spain Gardens into shadow.
Both the Mitsubishi team and Lambeth Council are putting together legal teams headed up by leading barristers to argue in favour of this development.
The SOS Save Our South Bank action group will be making the community’s case against, with a fraction of the resources – and we need your help!