The Lewes Road Community Garden was evicted at 2am on Tuesday September 7. Bailiffs acting on behalf of land-owners, Belfast-based Alburn Minos Ltd and partners-in-crime Tesco came in mob-handed (eight-12 plus line of police outside) without a proper eviction notice and took possession of the land and the legally squatted adjacent building.
One person was on the site at the time and he was forcibly removed from the squatted building. By 4am the garden had been razed to the ground - planters smashed, newly planted pots smashed garden furniture smashed. Metal hoardings are now up and security patrolling the site.
There will be a meeting at the Patch (William Clarke Park left off Franklin Road going up the hill) at 7pm to look at options.
Bailiffs and security were asked to leave plants and furniture outside the fence so it could be returned to local residents, families and kids. In the last two weeks money was raised to buy in plants and local schoolkids had been planting their own.
Thanks to Brighton Council officers acting hand-in-glove with the developers with a flawed consultation programme and planning permission nodded through when half the councillors were on holiday the garden is now taken by the developers and a planned Tesco, betting shop and seven flats could go ahead. There is already a Spar accross the road a CO-op literally next door and a Sainsburies up the road 200 metres. Who does well in a recession - supermarkets and betting shops. As for the flats all new flats along this road have been told not to open lower windows because of the EC reg breaking polltuion levels.
And all this on the site of an old petrol station - derelict for five years - which was guerilla-gardened in May 2009 and has been a green haven along the heavily polluted Lewes Road for 17 months.
Fight Tesco, Fight for Green Space in Brighton! Gardens not supermarkets People not Profit!
Put Communities First!
There will be a meeting at the Patch (William Clarke Park left off Franklin Road going up the hill) at 7pm to look at options.
Bailiffs and security were asked to leave plants and furniture outside the fence so it could be returned to local residents, families and kids. In the last two weeks money was raised to buy in plants and local schoolkids had been planting their own.
Thanks to Brighton Council officers acting hand-in-glove with the developers with a flawed consultation programme and planning permission nodded through when half the councillors were on holiday the garden is now taken by the developers and a planned Tesco, betting shop and seven flats could go ahead. There is already a Spar accross the road a CO-op literally next door and a Sainsburies up the road 200 metres. Who does well in a recession - supermarkets and betting shops. As for the flats all new flats along this road have been told not to open lower windows because of the EC reg breaking polltuion levels.
And all this on the site of an old petrol station - derelict for five years - which was guerilla-gardened in May 2009 and has been a green haven along the heavily polluted Lewes Road for 17 months.
Fight Tesco, Fight for Green Space in Brighton! Gardens not supermarkets People not Profit!
Put Communities First!
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Fight on Game On!
07.09.2010 10:07
Ok i suggest you now if you could support us in Stokes Croft in Bristol to stop a tescos from being developed . Hey! same as yours in a sorta way..independent shops for generations and yes tescos want to come and poo poo plop on it! Smelly!
So armchair anachists needed first ..letter writing..to see what to write please check out Bristol Indy Media Tescpoly thing!
Thanks in anticipation of your support!
Lost the battle NOT the war eco soldiers!
A Hobitt
Alburn Minos Developments Ltd
08.09.2010 09:23
from my search term: 'Alburn Minos Developments Ltd'
I have discovered this company(
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Bent Brighton and Hove City Council.
08.09.2010 14:46
A number of councillors in Brighton and Hove have extensive property interests. These include property companies, portfolios and developments. The hierarchy at the bent council assist in covering this up. There are what they allege are Registers of Interests online for each of the councillors. What these don't include are the property interests of all the councillors.
The online version does say that items are excluded where they could post a threat to a councillor's security. So personal addresses are not shown. They use this to justify, by very dubious methods, the exclusion of all property interests and dealings of every councillor. Some councillors have very extensive property holdings and interests indeed.
The only way you can access this information is to view the hard copy of the Register of Interests. Easier said than done as the bent Brighton and Hove City Council do their utmost to make this difficult to access. We are talking intimidation and harassment if you attempt to see this. Try it and see. The whole manner in which they conduct themselves in unlawful.
What have they got to hide?
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