Save The Electric Ballroom - Your help urgently needed!!
Camden Council agreed on 14th December to go out to public consultation on a “planning brief” for Camden Town Underground Station.There are just six weeks to respond to that consultation, which closes on the 16th February.
As recently as 2005 Transport for London’s previous propsals to demolish The Electric Ballroom, Buck Street Market and all the other buildings in the triangle to the north of the current station were defeated.
Kate Fuller of The Electric Ballroom says:
“I am very concerned that the Camden Council Planning Brief is a back door route to giving the TFL the cCouncil policy it needs to come back and force through a new but fundamentally similar development scheme.
We recognise the need to improve the Tube Station to ease congestion, but TfL’s ideas for the site would change the nature of the heart of Camden Town and actually reduce the number of people.
Camden Town doesn’t need a bland arcade-style shopping mall above it’s tube station. It is a unique place that needs to retain it’s character.My family has run the Electric Ballroom since the 1930’s. We have just refurbished the Ballroom, investing a large sum of money in upgrading the venue. We will be improving the facade and exterior of the building in the New Year. We do not want our premises demolished and our business displaced from the heart of Camden Town to make way for a shopping mall.
My family has run the Electric Ballroom since the 1930’s. We have just refurbished the Ballroom, investing a large sum of money in upgrading the venue. We will be improving the facade and exterior of the building in the New Year. We do not want our premises demolished and our business displaced from the heart of Camden Town to make way for a shopping mall.I hope you will respond to the Camden Council consultation and let them know that demolition of the Electric Ballroom, Buck Street Market and the other buildings on the site is unacceptable.”Here’s what you can do to save the Electric Ballroom:
1) Send your views on the future of the site to david.morrissey@camden.gov.uk at Camden Council, with the subject line ‘Response to Camden Town Tube Station Planning Brief Consultation’ with copies to the 3 local ward councillors: patricia.callaghan@camden.gov.uk; libby.campbell@camden.gov.uk; chris.naylor@camden.gov.uk. Please include your name & home address in the email.2) Respond to Camden’s consultation online at: www.camden.gov.uk/consults
3) go to the Electric Ballroom website and sign their online petition http://www.electric-ballroom.co.uk/save.html
go to the Electric Ballroom website and sign their online petition
