3.30 PM [1530 Hrs GMT] Sunday
19 March 2006
Venue – Brick Lane London E1 Area
[Registered participants have been sent the details of the venue and programme papers]
The Seminar will have this format and general contents
Part ONE
1. Introduction - 10 mins
Followed by SEMINAR briefs on:
2. What is the Crossrail hole?
3. The contents of the Crossrail Bill [UK House of Commons]
4. [A] the contents of the Tower Hamlets Council’s relevant documentation along with the contents of the petition [so far] [B] The Arup ‘reports’.
5. [A] The Khoodeelaar – the campaign so far – and [B] the Khoodeelaar! Portfolio of demands
6. The Crossrail hole Environment
7. The Crossrail hole Parliamentary representation
8. The Crossrail hole Council representation
9. The Crossrail hole Greater London Assembly
10. The Crossrail hole Mayor of London
Part TWO
11. Groups
Part THREE
12. Plenary Groups Reports Back Q&A etc
13. Summary of What KHOODEELAAR! Does next
14. Conclusion
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London Archirect Kay Jordan denounces Crossrail hole lies- Reports
20.03.2006 13:14
The Tower Hamlets Council lies on the Crossrail hole
Kay Jordan
Architect and
Director of the Spitalfields Small Business Association
[Brick Lane London E1 area]
Kay Jordan spoke of her long experience working in the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
She said that as an architect she knew how to look at a design and how to make sense of it. And to her, the Crossrail hole plan and design did not make sense.
Not when they were compared with the puff and the publicity that Crossrail had been making about the hole plan.
She said that she had also spoken to people with expert knowledge on tunnel construction and on railways.
In their views, the Crossrail hole plan was dodgy and unnecessary.
The devastation that the Crossrail hole would bring to the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area would be huge and irreparable.
Kay Jordan said that she was also very concerned about the social dislocation and destruction that the Crossrail hole would cause.
She said that she found it very hard to see any logic or reason in how the ‘Borough’ of Tower Hamlets [the Council] had behaved on the matter.
They had not told the truth and they had not shown any inclination that they cared much for the truth.
She referred to the Arup report which contained far more detailed acknowledgement of the warnings that Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been giving to Tower Hamlets Council about the hole than would be admitted by the present holders of controlling positions on Tower Hamlets Council
Kay Jordan also mentioned the fact that Crossrail had admitted to her to paying £1 million to Tower Hamlets Council for the ‘design’ alterations of the ‘Idea Store’ Whitechapel.
She said that she found that sum way out of proportion. Explaining the relationship between the cost and market value of the whole ‘Idea Store’ Building, she said that the sum of £1 Million seemed very dodgy and a mysterious amount for the alleged design alteration ‘work’.
There was more to that £1 Million payment by Crossrail to Tower Hamlets Council than may at first appear even from that portrait of Council misrepresentation of the Crossrail hole facts.
[More summaries will be published on
http://www.khoodeelaar.com
in the next 72 hours from the speech by Kay Jordan at the Khoodeelaar! Manifesto 2006 No to Crossrail-hole Council Seminar held on Sunday 19 March 2006]
[This khoodeelaaronline report authored and posted 1215 Hrs GMT Monday 20 March 2006]
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