— Save Our Riverfront

A quick reminder about the Save Our Riverfront meeting which will be held at 7pm on Tuesday, November 15th in Dorset Wharf Community Centre, Rainville Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9HL (map)

As ever there’s lots to discuss! St George’s ‘Fulham Reach’ proposal, its prospects for Mayoral approval, the new Riverside Studios proposals and the Council’s latest efforts to frustrate proper scrutiny of all this by its residents (link).

With threats to our riverfront multiplying almost weekly there’s never been a more important time to meet and make our voice heard!

Many thanks to The Riverside Players for their delightful performance in Frank Banfield Park this afternoon! It was a terrific idea on many levels and brilliantly executed. If there’s ever a repeat make sure you’re in the audience!

Thanks also to today’s audience for coming along to watch and support, and to Save Our Riverfront’s own Tony Boys and local MP Andy Slaughter for their rousing speeches!

A community united like this can surely never be defeated!

Respect and thanks to The Riverside Players who are staging a free performance of Shelley’s satire ‘Swellfoot The Tyrant’ at 2pm in Frank Banfield Park tomorrow (October 15th) in support of our campaign against the over-development of Fulham Reach.

Says the Players’ Niall McDevitt, “The Riverside Players are local people – I live in Hammersmith – who have followed the Save Our Riverfront campaign and have attended meetings. Though we are not officially part of the campaign we hope we will add a creative touch, as what is being proposed is very un-creative.”

The choice of play is very significant as Niall explains:

“When George IV was made King in 1820, his wife returned from Europe to claim her rightful throne but George tried to do everything in his power to prevent this. Shelly wrote this grotesque satire about it and we’re putting it on as Caroline could often be found in the area and often used to frequent Brandenburgh House” - which used to stand on the actual Fulham Reach / Frank Banfield site. “It’s a fun protest against what we believe is excess development going up on the riverside.”

You can read more about The Players and the performance in the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle (here) and on HammersmithToday.co.uk (here).

Let’s have a great turn-out tomorrow to thank The Riverside Players for their support.

And bring a picnic, the weather forecast is sunshine!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who came to Hammersmith Town Hall yesterday evening for the Fulham Reach planning meeting.

There were more than 120 people in the audience which made our community’s opposition to this proposal and our concern for its impact apparent to all.

Though the majority of the committee approved the proposal there were also some very alarming questions raised by its opposition members about the conduct of the application process. We hope that they’ll pursue these with equal vigour in the coming weeks and will keep you posted.

It certainly reaffirms our opposition to this scheme and our determination to fight on.

To borrow from Churchill, this is not the end, merely the end of the beginning.

Details of a new meeting to plan the way forward will be posted soon.

In meantime thanks once again to everyone who has supported the campaign in the eight short weeks since its beginning. It’s far exceeded all of our initial expectations and we can be justly proud as a community of everything that’s been achieved.

A quick reminder that tonight (Friday, September 23rd) is the rescheduled meeting of Hammersmith & Fulham’s ‘Planning Applications Committee’ to consider the Fulham Reach proposal.

The council and the developer St George would like nothing more than to see this proposal quietly steamrollered through.

It’s up to us to show the true feelings of the community in Hammersmith and Fulham so let’s demonstrate our opposition and stand up for the spirit of functioning local democracy.

The meeting is scheduled for 7pm in the Assembly Hall of Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London W6 (map) and we’ll be assembling outside from 6.30pm to make sure we get in.

Be sure to bring your friends and neighbours too!

Come to the rescheduled meeting of Hammersmith & Fulham’s ‘Planning Application Committee’ tomorrow night to make sure the council, the media and the rest of the world know of our community’s opposition to St George’s ‘Fulham Reach’ proposal for Hammersmith Embankment.

The meeting is scheduled for 7pm, September 23rd in the Assembly Hall, Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London W6 (map). We’ll be assembling outside from 6.30pm to make sure we get in.

After last week’s farcical events and the media coverage that went with it we have the momentum so bring your friends and neighbours and let’s make the genuine voice of our community heard!

Here’s our latest leaflet which summarises our concerns:

Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s ‘Planning Applications Committee’ meeting is re-scheduled for Friday 23rd September at 7pm (assemble at 6.30pm outside the Town Hall).

Please come along and bring as many of your friends and fellow residents to this crucial meeting as possible.

We CAN make a difference!