Posts Tagged ‘Walthamstow Dogs’

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    L&Q ignore residents, councillors and bidders for Walthamstow Dogs
    On Saturday (16th Jan) in a tiny backroom at The Holiday Inn, London & Quadrant unveiled their plans to turn Walthamstow’s iconic stadium into high density housing. Touted as an opportunity to listen to local views and adapt the plans accordingly, the “consultation” was only open for 2 brief 4 hour slots. Despite miserable weather residents turned...
    by blackhorseroad at January 22nd, 2010 at 02:01 pm
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    BAG Newsletter
    URGENT COUNCIL CONSULTATION The council would like residents feedback on plans to site Willowfield school at the top of the Douglas Eyre playing fields. Visit the Building Schools for the Future consultation here to give them your views. As usual with council consultations they’ve waited until less than a week before the closing date to send details to residents! The...
    by blackhorseroad at January 9th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    BAG September Newsletter
    Firstly apologies for originally posting the wrong date on the website but the bat walk was a great success. The evening was dry after a sunny day and 18 people turned up at the Coppermill Pub. We learned various details about bats and heard their noises on a “Bat detector” which was tuned into the appropriate bat frequency. We couldn’t see any bats...
    by blackhorseroad at September 26th, 2008 at 04:09 pm
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    Walthamstow Dogs: A video tribute
    On Saturday the 16th of August a few thousand of Walthamstow and Chingford’s diverse community enjoyed a cheap, fun and family night out at the dogs for probably the last time. For over 75 years “The Stow” has been Walthamstow’s flagship, a source of local pride and the constant reply of people when told you live in Walthamstow… “Oh...
    by blackhorseroad at August 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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    Save Our Stow in the news
    With Walthamstow Dogs scheduled to hold its last race on Saturday 16th August, the fight to save the stadium from the bulldozer has received extensive press and TV coverage. Consortiums who want to continue racing at The Stow have put in bids to buy or lease the track from the housing developers who have no planning permission and in the current climate are likely to leave...
    by blackhorseroad at August 11th, 2008 at 06:08 pm
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    BAG Newsletter July 2008
    Hi all, It’s taken us an age to produce a first newsletter, so apologies for that. The good news is that BAG now has over 120 members and hopes to continue growing and getting stronger. Contact us or join here. Without any further ado here’s what’s been happening in the last few months:
    by blackhorseroad at July 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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    No option to sell Walthamstow Dogs… really!?
    After the shock of Walthamstow dogs being “sold” behind their back, local community anger and resolve to object to all new planning aplications for the site has grown along with the question, was there really no other option but to sell to property developers? “We were left with no option but to sell the stadium to developers” Charles Chandler BBC...
    by blackhorseroad at May 23rd, 2008 at 08:05 pm
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    Walthamstow Dogs To Close!
    Photo by Alibiphoto “The main purpose of listing a building is to ensure that care will be taken over decisions affecting its future“ So said the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in 2007 as Culture Minister David Lammy announced the listing of Walthamstow Stadium declaring it “wouldn’t be going to the dogs“. He stated: “Its the...
    by admin at May 18th, 2008 at 10:05 pm