Despite vigorous protestations by concerned locals and cautions from English Heritage, TfL’s propert consultants, and even their own environmental consultants, Hackney Council has decided to go ahead and demolish the historic Dalston Theatre, among other landmarks, in order to cash in on Olympic fever by selling the land off to developers to pay for the £39 million new bus station which is to be built over Dalston station.
I think we will be seeing a lot more of this in the run up to the Olympics. Even if Dalston was run-down, couldn’t it be ‘restored’ instead of ‘redeveloped’? Is it necessary to bulldoze every damned thing and put up Ballardian flat blocks and office towers?
Of course, now there are charges of corruption in the Hackney Council that the Metropolitan Police are looking in to, not that Hackney Council being corrupt is a new idea…
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