The No Clapton Tesco Campaign

Vandalism at Tesco Express on Lower Clapton Road

emily — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:24:28 +0000

We have heard that the windows have been smashed at the Tesco Express on Lower Clapton Road. We want to emphasise that this has nothing to do with the No Clapton Tesco campaign. We have always used legitimate and community agreed means of protesting about this shop and its threat to our local economy and we don’t agree [...]

Photos of disruption caused by Tesco Express

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:28:19 +0000

The Tesco express on Lower Clapton Road is only allowed to deliver to the store using the loading bay on Lower Clapton Road close to the Pond. They are also only supposed to take 20 mins and not cause disruption to pedestrians or traffic, this was the basis of the objections to the store. In [...]

Housing association seeks legal advice as Clapton Tesco opens today

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:58:12 +0000

The store on Lower Clapton Road opened today (Friday 11th Feb), but this article over on the Hackney Citizen highlights information from the freeholders (Family Mosaic) that legal negotiations have not yet been completed for the store to commence trading. Whilst Tesco Express on Lower Clapton Road opened its doors for the first time today, [...]

Planning Committee meeting last night, permission granted

dan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:46:32 +0000

Bad news I’m afraid, condition 10 has been passed – Tesco can now deliver from in front of the store. We had prepared a load of evidence in response to that submitted by Tesco at the previous planning meeting, which we felt was inaccurate. In summary: Tesco deliver much more frequently than they stated in [...]

Planning hearing meeting agenda

emily — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:31:21 +0000

The Agenda for the meeting on Thursday has been announced on the Hackney Council website. The meeting starts at 6:30, we don’t know the exact time our bit will be heard, but it is point 9 and 10. It would be great if you could join us to show your support.

Planning Hearing Announced

emily — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:55:29 +0000

The next planning hearing for the 2 outstanding points will be on the evening of Thursday 9th December more details to follow. Correction – there is just one hearing related to the removal of condition 10 (2010/1041)

Some help needed

emily — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:32:45 +0000

If you are interested in helping the campaign we are looking for some volunteers who could spare an hour or two on Tuesday the 16th November. Please use the contact form below to get in touch. This form has now been removed

Planning Decisions (it’s not over yet)

emily — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:28:40 +0000

The Agenda and decisions from the meeting last week are now on the Hackney Council website. The full minutes are yet to be published. As you can see, every application that was granted has conditions and there are two decisions that have been deferred to the next meeting. As we understand it: point 12 regarding the [...]

Local Councillors Press Statement

emily — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:33:45 +0000

“We have played Tescopoly and it looks like we’ve thrown some winning dice today with the deferment of any planning committee decision on their using mega ton lorries to deliver into the street of Lower Clapton Road.” ‘There are a number of other outstanding issues we want to see answered including their proposal to park [...]

The Planning Hearing

emily — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:07:40 +0000

Thanks for everyone that came to the hearing last night, it was certainly an interesting meeting. The outcome is that a decision has been deferred on the applications that was also our biggest concern so it’s not decided either way yet. We will update you with more later