Relocation of Travellers Underway
Twenty families of Travellers now living at the permanent travellers’ camp in Waterden Road, Hackney Wick are being displaced due to the Olympic buildout, and the council is attempting to find alternative sites.
For thirteen of the twenty families, accomodations have been identified at two sites; in Homerton Road, providing 6 pitches, and in Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, providing 7 pitches, for which planning applications have been submitted.
A third site, the cleansing depot in Millfields Road, Lower Clapton, may provide space for the remaining seven families, however residents living near to the depot are opposing the latest proposal. The council plans to shut the depot and to transport bulky household rubbish on barges instead of on bin lorries to an incinerator at Edmonton, it will move forty metres down the road to enable it to use the River Lea nearby.
The LDA said that in the spring, they are to submit a planning application for the Millfields site and confirmed that to house the travelers, they were not looking at any other sites.
Between 9am and 5pm, at Dorothy Hodgkin House in 12 Reading Lane, residents can still view and comment on the planning applications for both the Homerton Road and Wallis Road sites. Alternatively, they can do so online at www.hackney.gov.uk/planning.
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1 Traveller Relocation On Hold After Massive Public Response | East London Life // Feb 13, 2007 at 1:09 pm
[…] I previously covered the planned move, which had angered local residents because the planning notices had been “accidentally” hidden from view. Hackney Marshes User Groups (HMUG) Paul Hodge said: “We had no knowledge from the council about two meetings held in December specifically about Hackney Marshes site.” […]
2 More On Traveller Relocation | East London Life // May 7, 2007 at 10:25 am
[…] The continuing saga of the relocation of Travellers’ from Hackney Wick to make way for the 2012 Olympics has a new chapter now as Hackney councillors decided to give Olympic chiefs the go-ahead to build seven pitches for the Travellers on Hackney Marsh. […]
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