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Stratford Sphere Venue Plans Officially Withdrawn By Us Firm
//The US company behind a proposed Las Vegas-style "Sphere" venue in east London has withdrawn its plans.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG) said it could not participate in a process that was "merely a political football between rival parties". In December, Housing Secretary Michael Gove used his powers to review the rejection of planning permission by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
In a letter to the Planning Inspectorate, MSG said it was "extremely disappointing" that Londoners would "not benefit from the Sphere's groundbreaking technology and the thousands of well-paying jobs it would have created".
The letter said: "I write to confirm that we are officially withdrawing our application from the Planning Inspectorate process.
"After spending millions of pounds acquiring our site in Stratford and collaboratively engaging in a five-year planning process with numerous governmental bodies, including the local planning authority who approved our plans following careful review, we cannot continue to participate in a process that is merely a political football between rival parties."//
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What with his extortionately prohibitive taxes on motorists and now blocking what would have been an enormous source of income for the city - not to mention jobs to help re-generate one of the poorest areas in the capital - the ever self-serving Sadiq Khan has proven himself to be London's worst enemy. Has he any chance of re-election? I sincerely hope not.
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aside from your saying so i really can't find much evidence that people who lived there were keen on it naomi and there's plenty that they are not... maybe your relations are people who really really like adverts
i'm sure khan is fine with foreign investment lol but not at any cost
it is a bit deceptive to use population figures for the whole borough by the way
"...the site is very valuable and still available... i doubt it's going to remain vacant for very long. a developer that respects the rules will be given the opportunity and that's a good thing."
It's been vacant for so long as I can remember. It was cleared (of nothing much in particular) when the work to develop the Olympic site began. A number of schemes have been proposed, including an artificial ski centre. But all that seems to be wanted is "affordable" housing. No developer is going to do that as there's nothing in it for them. I doubt any "affordable" housing will go there either as the site is not really suitable for that.
Untitled. //there's plenty that they are not//
Rubbish. 2,700 out of a population of over 360,000 is not plenty - and even if you take the population of the Stratford area alone - 25,000 - 2,700 is still not plenty. Those figures would indicate that if anything, the population, didn't care one way or another.
//it is a bit deceptive to use population figures for the whole borough by the way//
Not at all. The plan was approved by the council elected by the people. They wanted it - Mr Khan didn't. The man is a disaster for London. I hope he's booted out next time around. London deserves better.
me too and I'm only partly ethnic.
He scrapped the money pit known as the garden bridge and now he's scrapped an alien craft from the planet Zod. In contrast to his two predecessors, who both had massive edifice complexes that encouraged wacky skyscrapers around town. Khan's a breath of fresh air. (In more ways than one.)
How about the nice BBC, untitled?
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Or the Guardian?
Any better?
//they don't like that he's a muslim. //
No ... those who don't like - don't like because he's a disaster for the city.
Your accusation is the sort of thing that exacerbates and encourages racism and that creates conflict. You should be ashamed - but you're not because you'll use any port in a storm however disingenuous.
please stop changing the subject. I didn't say London traffic was fast, I said the air is better. It's been slow since the Middle Ages
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