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Save EARLS COURT From Demolition .

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I LOVE EARL’S COURT – SAVE THE EXHIBITION CENTRE FROM DEMOLITION

 

 

 

 

 

The “Save Earl’s Court” campaign has been established by the Earl’s Court Area Action Group to fight the proposed demolition of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, the Lillie Bridge Depot and the Gibbs Green and West Kensington Estates.

 

 

 

The campaign is clear that the proposals as recommended by the Mayor of London, threaten the Earl’s Court neighbourhood in a number of ways:

 

 

 

1. the removal of  Earls Court One and Earls Court Two will lose more than £1 billion to the local economy and several billions to the national economy each year
2. the loss of 22 acres of social housing at a time of a national housing crisis
3. Lillie Bridge Depot is a centre of British manufacturing excellence under threat of sell-off and job losses and this will be a loss to our national economy- its’ relocation is also likely to compromise the safe running of the Tube network
4. the sustainability of local small traders who over the past decades have successfully based their business plans on passing trade from the EC will be put at risk – the impact has already begun
5. much increased PM10s resultant from the buildings works and traffic back-up will have a negative impact on air quality which already fails EU regulations
6. the environmental impact of large scale buildings works in close proximity to existing housing stock will deteriorate the quality of life for local people
7. our vibrant local community is to be replaced by high rise buy-to-leave properties which have low levels of residence and are unaffordable to the average person
8. local transport routes which are already overloaded will be stretched beyond capacity, impacting on key London access routes and Heathrow traffic

 

 

 

Our campaign’s request for a full, transparent public inquiry may have been refused by Secretary of State Eric Pickles but it is not a done deal!  We are continuing to call for an inquiry; pursuing legal action where appropriate and developing other strategies so that we can have our say!

 

 

 

The Earl’s Court Area Action Group and its “Save Earl’s Court” campaign is not a politically aligned campaign and will not encourage support for any particular political party or movement.

 

 

 

Join our campaign! Sign our petition! Support us on Twitter and Facebook!

 

Contact us on: earlscourtareaactiongroup@gmail.com

 

 

 

You can find out more via the links below.

 

 

 

Website: http://www.saveearlscourt.com

 

Petition: http://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/saveearlscourt

 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SaveEarlsCourt

 

Twitter at: http://twitter.com/saveearlscourt

 

 

 

 

As a local Earls Court resident for nealy 50 years I am horrified at the current proposal to demolish this great landmark.
The loss of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre will be an act of gross cultural vandalism.
The building is one of the largest London Art Deco heritage survivors. It should be preserved at all costs. Its loss would be a crime.

Apart from the architectural heritage, the closure of the business it draws to the area will be an enormous and spectacular instant loss to the neighbourhood as a whole. It is the cash cow of the area, drawing in hundreds of thousands of people annually to the immediate surroundings whose businesses thrive on this. So very many will not survive its departure.

The idea that there will be a new High Street in the area after, is really not a great idea. There are so many empty shops in all the surrounding shopping streets already, both old and new builds. The idea that more will be needed in the future is just not valid when so much trade is now moving to the Internet, is expected to do more so in the future, and when so many shopping districts all over England are in such decline.

There are already a spectacular number of projects in the adjoining area of new-build housing most of which are not fit for family life or anything but investment concepts for overseas speculators. All these are doing is drive up the property prices in central areas, forcing people out of the centre as a result. Mostly they are unlived in. One can see them all around as it is. It is disastrous to allow and encourage more of the same when there is so much need for actual housing that local workers can really afford to live in. It is also culturally so negative for the life of London as whole to have areas now where so few people can afford to live, yet so many to have to commute so much further as a result to places of work in the centre.

As for office space being need, again look around the area at all the empty ones already.
This is just a short-sighted scheme proposed by greedy speculators, and will do nothing to provide any quality of life to London, a city that now is fast being destroyed in the process.

 

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