Save Chest Hospital

STOP MEGA DEVELOPMENT DESTROYING HISTORIC CHEST HOSPITAL & CONSERVATION AREA - Consultation now open! See pinned tweet below

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

Have your say! Email the council at [email protected] including ref: PA/16/03343 and your address.

Main objections:
-Too high
-Too dense
-Listed building demolished
-Ancient tree uprooted
-Harms Conservation Area
-Low social housing
-Overshadows homes

[Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor]

AT THE CANAL CLUB- a report on the threat to community spaces at the Wellington Estate in Bethnal Green: https://t.co/kWt3TFylak Photos by @rachelferriman

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

Anyone who cares about our local natural and social spaces in E2 should know for sure about the precious gem that is the Canal Club garden. Please sign the petition, and if you can, stand in solidarity with the E2 Collective to protect this wonderful space from demolition.

[Parkview Residents @Parkview_ra]

Sneak preview of our Spring-Summer lo-tech Parkview Life mini-newsletter, which will include free Sweet William seeds from Tower Hamlets Homes, and will be delivered to Parkview estate residents on Bank Holiday Monday evening by the fantastic @GGTowerHamlets #regenerativeculture

[Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor]

#savethebethnalgreenmulberry @SaveChest @EastEndPSociety @JaimeRoryLucy

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

Hi everyone! For something a bit friendlier than our struggle with the Chest Hospital development... You are all invited for some local good cheer to the Parkview estate Winter Warmer Festival on 15 December. Come for a sing and a mince pie with us on the Parkview estate.

[Parkview Residents @Parkview_ra]

Parkview residents! Email us to connect with your friendly TRA: we want to hear from you! [email protected]
Meet some more of your neighbours at our Winter Warmer Festival on 15 December at the Glasshouse. Posters around the estate, and flyers coming through your door!

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

@Sh4msia @CllrSirajIslam @MayorJohnBiggs @Eve_McQuillan @Parkview_ra @TowerHamletsNow The public consultation was a sham. Overwhelmingly against, and effectively ignored.

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

@Sh4msia @CllrSirajIslam @MayorJohnBiggs @Eve_McQuillan @Parkview_ra @TowerHamletsNow ... and 12,000 people signing petitions against the plans, and nearly 400 written objections. @TowerHamletsNow has approved a development that is designed only to maximise the profits of the developers. They paid too much for the site, and the community is being punished for that

[Barts Radio @BartsRadio]

@catherine_v_p @SaveChest @66000mph @EastEndPSociety @thegentleauthor Very sad how heritage has been destroyed and area ruined by developers Crest Nicholson at our old home, London Chest Hospital

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

@Eve_McQuillan @jpfxpierce @CllrSirajIslam @TowerHamletsNow @thegentleauthor @EEWGroup @EastEndPSociety @DemolitionsLdn @WoodlandTrust @SadiqKhan It was not a fair hearing because those in favour of the development (planning officers, supporting consultants, developers, etc) spoke for approx 90 minutes during the session, while those against were given perhaps 15 minutes (incl answering questions). It was very unbalanced.

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

@jpfxpierce @CllrSirajIslam @Eve_McQuillan @TowerHamletsNow @thegentleauthor @EEWGroup @EastEndPSociety @DemolitionsLdn @WoodlandTrust @SadiqKhan

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

The Labour Council in Tower Hamlets has let us down on the London Chest Hospital. @MayorJohnBiggs said in October 2016: 'Nobody wants towering blocks of flats in an area of predominantly Victorian terraces and low-rise estates.' Well that's what the Council has approved (1/3)

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

@Eve_McQuillan @jpfxpierce @CllrSirajIslam @TowerHamletsNow @thegentleauthor @EEWGroup @EastEndPSociety @DemolitionsLdn @WoodlandTrust @SadiqKhan Your support is very much appreciated. But it's worth noting that 3 councillors on the Strategic Development Committee voted against the development. One more vote and this development could have been rejected - presumably legally. Also, it was not a fair hearing... (1/2)

[Eve McQuillan @Eve_McQuillan]

@SaveChest @jpfxpierce @CllrSirajIslam @TowerHamletsNow @thegentleauthor @EEWGroup @EastEndPSociety @DemolitionsLdn @WoodlandTrust @SadiqKhan I'm so disappointed about this - I objected on behalf of the labour cllrs this time round. Ultimately the cttee had to make a legal rather than a political decision using a broken planning framework. But as a local resident I'm really sad to see this outcome

[Cllr. Sirajul Islam @CllrSirajIslam]

@Eve_McQuillan @SaveChest @jpfxpierce @TowerHamletsNow @thegentleauthor @EEWGroup @EastEndPSociety @DemolitionsLdn @WoodlandTrust @SadiqKhan Myself and former Cllr. @AmyLWGibbs also objected. Thanks to Steve, Chris and Tom Ridge for their sterling effort.

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

... St James's Avenue will soon be in near-continual shadow, and will lose dozens of mature trees. The local residents who believed these words and voted accordingly may feel they are less important than the developers, whose intense lobbying and pressure won the day.

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

The Labour Council in Tower Hamlets has let us down on the London Chest Hospital. @MayorJohnBiggs said in October 2016: 'Nobody wants towering blocks of flats in an area of predominantly Victorian terraces and low-rise estates.' Well that's what the Council has approved (1/3)

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

On Thursday evening they voted for an 8-storey block to overshadow the entrance to Victoria Park. In October 2016 @MayorJohnBiggs said: 'The new buildings must be in keeping with the area and should not block out light from neighbouring properties.' But St James's avenue... (2/3)

[Save Chest Hospital @SaveChest]

@angels1five @catherine_v_p @thegentleauthor @66000mph @EastEndPSociety It does indeed feel that way. None of our residents here are against there being housing. It's the scale of the development that will damage the quality of life in existing homes through overshadowing, and put pressure on local services... and the tree felling is heartbreaking.