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 ...