Comments on: Right to Play

By: Aidan

Aidan — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:58:52 +0000

There is a very small playground and some open space in the gap between Colomb Street and Earlswood Street, a tiny swing and rocker thing on Lemmon Road, but much else.

I think a play area is planned for Lovell’s Wharf at some stage in the development (Cllr Mary Mills is trying to bring this foreword).

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:08:59 +0000

I represent a local arts collective very interested in public spaces and am keen to hear people’s thoughts for an art project we are developing in the area. Join us at East Greenwich Pleasuance on Friday 3 August 12 to 4 for a fun workshop looking at future of area. Your thoughts will help inform our work in the area.

By: Capability Bowes

Capability Bowes — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:33:10 +0000

Childrens’ authors should be made to read their works aloud every night and architects should be forced to live or work in the buildings they design. Its a sad fact that, so often, buildings are designed without any thought as to how the residents will actually live and function as humans in them. The provision of open space is usually the first consideration to fall by the wayside – because, after all, open spaces don’t make a profit. The fact that they immeasurably improve the living conditions of residents is completely ignored in favour of financial considerations.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:32:09 +0000

I’m all for lobbying the Council and developers to provide more public open spaces and wish the campaigners all success.

That said, it’s no more than a 10 minute stroll from anywhere within the Trafalgar Rd/Blackwall Lane triangle to either the Pleasaunce or the Park, and crossing Trafalgar Road isn’t that onerous, so I can’t see that anyone’s “right to play” is seriously infringed.