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BHANGEELAAR! Telling the "East London Advertiser" [=”ELA”] the facts about the destruction of neighbourhoods by the Council's housing 'policies'. The ELA web site has so far not published our diagnostic comment about the state of disenfranchisement of entire neighbourhoods by the Council’s policies.
You ["East London Advertiser"] quote Boris Johnson:
“This fantastic project in Bethnal Green shows how communities working together can reclaim unwanted patches of earth and turn them into food growing oases, all the while getting to know their neighbours”
Did you get that quote directly from Boris Johnson or was it retailed to ‘the media outlets’ via his publicity machine?
Also worth asking what involvement Boris Johnson’s office had with Samantha Cameron’s appearance at the Bethnal Green locations? If either his office or Boris himself were involved then the mini event was even shallower than it would appear from your way of presenting it in your online piece. The “communities working together” Can of course reclaim a lot that is daily taken away by the non-community forces as typified by the local Council and other ‘authorised’ agencies of the State. How many people who would love to be part of their local neighbourhoods being able to use the amenities and spaces there are being neglected by the Council and by so many of the Council-linked but unaccountable Registered Social Landlords [RSL] that have taken over so many estates and neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets? Who is ‘celebrating” THEIR disenfranchisement from their neighbourhoods and estates? When was the last time that Tower Hamlets Council published any truthful and adequate account on what the RSLs had been unto after the Council gave the large housing and estates properties to them? How are those people who have been affected by the transfer as experienced in the lowering of all key amenities and services in their estates and in their streets been “reclaiming” their lost rights in Tower Hamlets including in Bethnal Green?
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17 November 2010
BHANGEELAAR! THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN ELECTED MAYOR IN TOWER HAMLETS
SAMANTHA Cameron rolled up her sleeves and prepared to get her hands dirty when she visited a community growing project in Bethnal Green.
LONDON - NOVEMBER 11: Samantha Cameron (R) talks to the residents during a visit to a social garden project on a housing estate in London on November 11, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Sang Tan - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Sam Cam rolls up her sleeves to help urban growers in Bethnal Green
Victoria Huntley, Senior reporter Friday, 12 November, 2010
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SAMANTHA Cameron rolled up her sleeves and prepared to get her hands dirty when she visited a community growing project in Bethnal Green.
LONDON - NOVEMBER 11:Samantha Cameron (L) and Secretary of Tennant and Resident Association, Sarah Beydown roll up their sleeves as they prepare to plant a selection of plants during a visit to a social garden project on a housing estate in London on November 11, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Sang Tan - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The wife of the Prime Minister visited the prize-winning Rocky Park Urban Growers, on the Teesdale and Hollybush estate in Bethnal Green yesterday (Thursday) when she met volunteers who are cultivating a thriving food garden, and helped the team to plant new seedlings.
The community project is part of the Mayor of London’s Capital Growth grow your own scheme launched in 2008.
The Rocky Park Urban Growers have recently been singled out as part of the Edible Estates Capital Growth competition for people living in social housing.
Rock Park volunteer have transformed formally neglected spaces previously plagued by anti-social behaviour by involving around 150 residents in growing fruit and veg.
Raised beds have been created along with a herb garden and growers have been collecting rain water in butts, composting green waste - nearly everything on site is recycled or salvaged from tips.
Mrs Cameron said: “Capital Growth want to help Londoners transform the capital by creating 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012.
“I hope my visit will raise awareness of the initiative and encourage Londoners get involved in making the scheme a reality in their own area.”
The Bethnal Green project took part in Capital Growth’s Edible Estates competition designed to find London’s best housing estate food growing gardeners.
It was runner up in the ‘best estate category’ and was chosen for how it changed life in the estate and how it improved relationships with neighbours.
Rocky Park Urban Grower Margaret Cox: “The plants we are putting in today are funded by our Edible Estate prize. We are delighted with the visit and support, as it will give our new growers a flying start into developing their allotments over the winter months.”
There are Capital Growth sites across London including in schools, on roofs, in skips and alongside canals.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: “This fantastic project in Bethnal Green shows how communities working together can reclaim unwanted patches of earth and turn them into food growing oases, all the while getting to know their neighbours.”
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