Today we launch the next stage of the Save our Square campaign
This fight is only getting started and we can win!
As Save Our Square chair Nancy Taaffe has written: “If you didn’t already know, that disgrace of a politician, Sadiq Khan, sanctioned the monster block plans today ”

“Save Our Square met tonight and we will be issuing a press release tomorrow as an official response to the news. The one thing we need to tell people is that we will fight for every blade of grass in that square, and we will resist all forms of social cleansing“.

“Let your first act of defiance to this bad news be joining us on Saturday at 2pm in the square at the Save Our Trees event. Please get involved in the fightback against mass displacement and social cleansing. It ain’t over…”.

Upcoming events

This Saturday’s Save the Trees event
Meet in the Square at 2pm, 24 March.… Read on ...

SAVE OUR SQUARE

Walthamstow Saturday market square is normally a lively place, but last Saturday 24th February it was buzzing. After weeks of leafleting and raising the alarm, around 600 angry demonstrators came together, declaring their opposition to regeneration plans for the shopping Mall, which will take away one third of precious public space. A whole range of people and organisations came, many with homemade placards; artists brought models of the proposed monster blocks and marked with posters the trees destined for the chop.
A line was sprayed to show, according to the plans, exactly how much space was going to be lost. It stretched from the corner by Lidl and the stalls to the big screen, across the grass and up to the corner entrance – a huge area – nothing short of a land-grab by the company Capital and Regional.
Speaker after speaker condemned the council for giving the go-ahead, and Linda Taaffe secretary of the Trades Council said “And it isn’t even going to provide homes for people in need.… Read on ...