Battersea Park is simply not suitable to be a racetrack. Also, the park is going to be closed for 4 days, dog owners have been ignored.
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Sarah Newbery
11 years ago
I am a frequent visitor to London's public paths and am appalled at the underhand way preparations have been made for a Formula E event without due consultation or permission from the public.
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Sylvia Parsons
11 years ago
This is another worrying example of councils acting for profit without PROPER consultation.
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Christopher Monier-Williams
11 years ago
This is terribly sad and I hope it can be stopped.
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Roberto
11 years ago
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money (re-think, if you have a brain)
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Lofthouse Susan
11 years ago
Thanks all of you who have signed so far. Spread the word. Remember, the Park belongs to everyone, not just Battersea.
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Peter Herron
11 years ago
Completely the wrong kind of activity for this park. There must be thousands of better places to hold such an event, but here you are wrecking a listed park which is a place of outstanding natural beauty.
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Gary Davies
11 years ago
Wrong place
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Edward Walder
11 years ago
There are enough motor sport facilities in the UK capable of hosting this event without desecrating green public space in London.
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Celia Blair
11 years ago
This is an accident waiting to happen. The course is less than 3 miles long.
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Elizabeth Robinson
11 years ago
I live just across the bridge from the park. which is one of the loveliest in London.
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Barrie Evans
11 years ago
The council has no right to carry on as if they were a private enterprise!!
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David Gee
11 years ago
Keep coal in the hole, oil in the soil, gas in the ground, and E cars on the road, not in the park. That seems like Carbon sense
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Matt Taylor
11 years ago
Parks are for peace and relaxation. Not Formula E. This is vandalism of a beautiful public space. Stop it.
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Sara Bragadina
11 years ago
I can't believe you'd want to ruin such a wonderful park!
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Philip Russell
11 years ago
Vandalism!
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Lofthouse Susan
11 years ago
There was a very interesting comment about people in the mansion blocks who did not receive that planning letter.
However, the council claims they sent 1800 letters, and the council site shows 1770-odd addresses, mainly mansion blocks. It would be very useful if people could do some organised asking around so that we can see whether that 1800 is, in fact, correct.
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Ian Mursell
11 years ago
Money rules. Safety measures that have been in place for years have been abandoned to make way for high-powered racing cars. The speed bumps, for years a feature of the southern perimeter car park, have been removed months in advance to prepare for Formula E. If this isn't a flagrant disregard for public safety in the park, I don't know what is. Shame on you, Wandsworth Council.
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Paul Ekins
11 years ago
This project is totally out of keeping with the nature of this Victorian Park. It has been driven through with absolutely no regard to the comments of any of the groups who were consulted. When the FBP was first instituted, I wrote an article for them on why the Park was so important, Now we have a lot of vandals in the Town Hall (and in City Hall, I might add) for whom peace and tranquillity mean nothing.
Battersea Park is simply not suitable to be a racetrack. Also, the park is going to be closed for 4 days, dog owners have been ignored.
I am a frequent visitor to London's public paths and am appalled at the underhand way preparations have been made for a Formula E event without due consultation or permission from the public.
This is another worrying example of councils acting for profit without PROPER consultation.
This is terribly sad and I hope it can be stopped.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money (re-think, if you have a brain)
Thanks all of you who have signed so far. Spread the word. Remember, the Park belongs to everyone, not just Battersea.
Completely the wrong kind of activity for this park. There must be thousands of better places to hold such an event, but here you are wrecking a listed park which is a place of outstanding natural beauty.
Wrong place
There are enough motor sport facilities in the UK capable of hosting this event without desecrating green public space in London.
This is an accident waiting to happen. The course is less than 3 miles long.
I live just across the bridge from the park. which is one of the loveliest in London.
The council has no right to carry on as if they were a private enterprise!!
Keep coal in the hole, oil in the soil, gas in the ground, and E cars on the road, not in the park. That seems like Carbon sense
Parks are for peace and relaxation. Not Formula E. This is vandalism of a beautiful public space. Stop it.
I can't believe you'd want to ruin such a wonderful park!
Vandalism!
There was a very interesting comment about people in the mansion blocks who did not receive that planning letter. However, the council claims they sent 1800 letters, and the council site shows 1770-odd addresses, mainly mansion blocks. It would be very useful if people could do some organised asking around so that we can see whether that 1800 is, in fact, correct.
Money rules. Safety measures that have been in place for years have been abandoned to make way for high-powered racing cars. The speed bumps, for years a feature of the southern perimeter car park, have been removed months in advance to prepare for Formula E. If this isn't a flagrant disregard for public safety in the park, I don't know what is. Shame on you, Wandsworth Council.
This project is totally out of keeping with the nature of this Victorian Park. It has been driven through with absolutely no regard to the comments of any of the groups who were consulted. When the FBP was first instituted, I wrote an article for them on why the Park was so important, Now we have a lot of vandals in the Town Hall (and in City Hall, I might add) for whom peace and tranquillity mean nothing.
Disgraceful