Will you join us in saying NO to Tower Hamlets Councillors approving the Asda development plan?  We want the Council to force the developers to scale back their plans and protect our local amenities and community, but the council are not listening to our very reasonable objections.

Help us protect our beloved Mudchute Farm and the sense of open space we ALL enjoy there. Under this current plan, it will be severely boxed in by high rise buildings. Construction noise, debris, pollution and disruption created by a plan of this size that will challenge the natural ecosystem for more than 8 years.

ALL surrounding local residents in Friars Mead and Glengall Grove will be blighted by severe loss of daylight, overshadowing and a lack of privacy caused by high rise buildings too close to their homes.

These problems could be overcome by developers simply committing to only erect low rise buildings next to the Mudchute and local housing estates.

A few local residents have therefore started a legal process and instructed Richard Buxton solictors, https://www.richardbuxton.co.<wbr>uk but we need your help. We are crowdfunding to raise funds in order to take this legal battle further and get our voices heard.

The solicitors have advised us that if the developer and Tower Hamlets fail to address the following issues there may be grounds for a judicial review of the grant of planning permission.

These include:

-Level of affordable housing and lack of transparency around the viability process;

-Lack of clarity around distance of the development from bordering housing estates and potential overlooking and privacy issues as a result;

-Failure to correctly identify habitable rooms in the daylight and sunlight assessment;

-Failure to provide an archaeological model as requested by the Historic England Greater London Archaeology Advisory Service;

-Failure properly to address cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the Environmental Statement;

-Failure to comply with Regulation 25 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations in terms of consultation on the additional environmental information submitted in January 2021;

-Failure to assess flood risk impacts on neighbouring area

We have already self-funded £2400 for the solicitor's review of the plan and for their advice but now we need YOUR help. Their advice included a legal letter to the council clearly and legally communicating the ways this plan is not compliant. We are crowdfunding to raise £500 towards the estimated £2500 cost of this letter.

The Asda plan is to go before the Tower Hamlet's Strategic Development Committee soon, potentially 9th June 2021, to decide Yes or No. If we are able to convince the councillors to say No to the Asda plan, we will send a clear message that this is our Island and that we want a say in how it is developed. Plan's for this site have been rejected in the past and this plan is the largest and tallest to date but the political climate has changed and there is a big push for housing at any cost especially here on the Isle of Dogs.

Do you know that last January the Tower Hamlets councillors voted to build 57% of all new housing on the Isle of Dogs and South Poplar, when this area represents only 20% of the boroughs space. This is unfair.

There are many unanswered questions about how the effects of a plan of this size combined with this significant population increase will be mitigated against the impact of increased demands on public transport, schools, health and social care services.

If any of this is important to you, please help as every contribution, no matter how small, really does help. Legal representation is costly and we wish it could have been avoided but the council is not listening to us. Together, legal representation IS possible and then the council must listen.

Help us say enough is enough. Communities and families live here and our concerns are real and important.

We need your support so please contribute what you can and share this page now.

Thank you for your help!