not the Clissold Park website
2 June 2005
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 "AN INNER CITY SANCTUARY UNDER THREAT your signature can help protect it
The London Borough of Hackney is about to violate its own guidelines for preserving the tranquillity of Abney Park, the historic garden cemetery, now urban woodland, which is the heart of Stoke Newington's Conservation Area. In contravention of their own policies, planners are recommending approval of a multi-storey school building. The controversy is not over the principle of a school, but its excessive scale and insensitive design. It will be a massive over-development of its site, and will shatter the peace of this sanctuary, which has few parallels in any inner-city area of England."
(Via Listria and Martaban Residents assoc..)
Reminds us of, many years ago, a Hackney conservation officer who assisted a factory-owner in punching a window right through it's wall into the cemetery, ooh the stories we could tell. The cemetery was secured from the council by local people to end the systematic theft of memorials and neglect of the cemetery by the council staff charged with maintaining it.
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They are cutting and placing drains in the spring field on Clissold Park which is great. This is only 19 years after Arthur Disney and the late Christine Disney asked for this. All those years ago the Clissold Park Users' Group was chaired by none other than Mark Lushington. Arthur predicted back then that the lack of drainage on a field full of springs where fairs and contractors parked so close to the trees would see off all the mature chestnut trees there which has, of course, happened. All this despite parks managers and the tree officer accusing Arthur of exaggeration and scaremongering since 1986. have you noticed where the drainage contractors are parking now while the works are taking place?
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