kate love wrote:I'm not happy about it being closed either. It's actually extremely noisy now. The shouting and screaming is so disturbing and I get no peace in my flat (that overlooks this area) when I take a day off work.As I have posted before I, as well as many other locals, are not happy about the closure of Lant Street. As I live in the flats overlooking the street I have noticed that the closed public thoroughfare of Lant street is now becoming a private car park for people who have got access to the locked gates at either end. I have also noticed that a large piece of waste ground which already belonged to the school (probably bigger in surface area to the whole of the closed street) lies completely wasted and is just a tip for rubbish and more cars. This could have easily have been grassed over and used as a playground. How can the school justify robbing the community of an important and historic street when it uses the space in this way!
Quote:Using Lant St
While all this happens, we have the space! Early Years have been charging up and down on bikes and trikes, Yr 5/6 have had hockey practice there. Now the weather is drier, we shall be using the space for outdoor P.E. as appropriate, with all classes.
Tolstoy wrote:
Children. Bells. I guess birds will be next on the list bringing havoc to peoples lives.
James Hatts wrote:Boris Johnson's deputy mayor, Ian Clement, decided in September that a public inquiry into the stopping up of the street was unnecessary.
See the decision letter and GLA officers' report.
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