| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Campaign to remove Rosslyn Park advertising screens | |
| Posted by: | Emma Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 03/12/15 18:17:00 |
| I have now signed the petition so you all know where I am coming from. There are already 52 signatures there with comments covering all the topics and angles that are being covered in this Forum (light pollution, not in keeping, too big, a danger to traffic, a danger to cyclists, too big an environmental sacrifice for commercial gain, lack of sufficient consultation). I wanted to pick up on Simon’s remark that there is nothing ‘uniquely bad’ about the huge TV screens outside Rosslyn Park (I think the one outside Sainsbury that you mention is not using LED technology?). No-one will ever be able to convince me that these sites belong on this part of the URR which once was I would agree a unique ‘pastoral place between Putney and Richmond’ - (thanks Ivonne) . This short stretch of road never felt to me like an ‘urban’(sorry Niccie) environment. The Rosslyn Park boundary I grant you was a bit frayed around the edges and needed attention but these installations have dramatically impacted on the environment in a very intrusive and dare I say it ‘vulgar’ way. I understand the need for Rosslyn Park to raise money and look forward to hearing about their range of community initiatives and timetable for implementing them but I feel deep regret that commercial arguments have been allowed to impact so horribly on an environment and I do worry for the future of other similar locations which clearly are now so vulnerable and given scant regard or protection by a Council or an organisation. Rosslyn Park removed ten trees I think to make way for these metal monsters – will they be able to afford the very large Oak tree that they suggested would be nestling behind the much smaller advertising hoarding in the illustration featured in the Statement of Community Involvement – take a look at that and see if their pretty drawings (there are two) bear any relation to the reality. I mourned the loss of the lido which I do recall visiting as a young child and I have watched Putney change over the years – sometimes for better sometimes for worse - but I personally struggle to find in very recent memory a worse insult to an environment than this one. |