Save The Foundry! - action needed

As some of you might know there are plans in place to turn the building where The Foundry is into an arty-farty hotel in a few months. And as some of you have experienced that pub is the best place to get pissed on friday night, and not only.

So we have until 20th November 2009 to tell the council how we feel about this .

Reference number of a plan to demolish the building : 2009/2407

( link here http://www.hackney.gov.uk/servapps/MVM/Online/Generic/StdDetails.aspx?PT=Planning%20Applications%20On-Line&TYPE=PL/PlanningTechAppraisalPK.xml&PARAM0=136669&XSLT=/servapps/MVM/SiteFiles/Skins/hackney/xslt/PL/PLTechAppraisalDetails.xslt&FT=Planning%20Application%20Details&PUBLIC=Y&XMLSIDE=/servapps/MVM/SiteFiles/Skins/hackney/Menus/PL.xml&DAURI=PLANNING )

Reference number of a plan to build the hotel in that place : 2009/2405

( link here http://www.hackney.gov.uk/servapps/MVM/Online/Generic/StdDetails.aspx?PT=Planning%20Applications%20On-Line&TYPE=PL/PlanningTechAppraisalPK.xml&PARAM0=136667&XSLT=/servapps/MVM/SiteFiles/Skins/hackney/xslt/PL/PLTechAppraisalDetails.xslt&FT=Planning%20Application%20Details&PUBLIC=Y&XMLSIDE=/servapps/MVM/SiteFiles/Skins/hackney/Menus/PL.xml&DAURI=PLANNING )

Send letters to:

Hackney Planning Services
Dorothy Hodgkin House
12 Reading Lane
London E8 1HJ

It is important that they know how people feel about these plans.

• ah and the facebook group with more info on this is :
  
  

http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/group.php?gid=103733314617

So there isn't a petition just an option to write a letter to the council?

This is what they are intending to build apparenly, claiming art space for local and community artists...

http://www.artotels.com/
http://www.artotels.com/londonhoxton

well that would fucking suck.

What kind of letter should I write? Just a nicely written note that I don't want to see it gone or something more wordy?

the foundry is not exactly the most salubrious of drinking establishments, why do people go there? is it for the decor, cleanliness of the toilets or the extensive range of real beer?
or is it because you can sit on cold concrete and drink your own cheap cans of lager outside instead of the pubs expensive piss lager inside?

TBH i quite like the idea of an arts centre/studio/gallery space

"There will also be a publically accessible arts centre, which will include an art gallery, space for video artists and photographic studios."

there must be countless other pubs in the area no?

Those hotels look pricey, it was going to happen sooner or later though.

Jamboree in Limehouse it is then...

it's so you can drink your own beer outside

And buy stuff not available elsewhere in London

They serve Pitfield. That's pretty rare.

What is The Foundry? Is it just some hipster hangout?

Pub on the corner of Great Eastern and Old St with a huge space to accommodate people who want to hang out at a pub but not pay for the drinks at the pub. Also their bikes.

Godawful shiteshed

It's London's official courier hang out on Fridays.

I'll be the first to say....boohoo, I couldn't care less, its just another pub, unless you're a fakenger and wanna hang out with all the couriers on a Friday night because they have attained a level of street cred that you deem as aspirational, therefore you wish to bathe in the glow of said street cred.
Besides, i'm sure the couriers will find another place to hang out.

Pub on the corner of Great Eastern and Old St with a huge space to accommodate people who want to hang out at a pub but not pay for the drinks at the pub. Also there bikes.

So, if more drinks were bought from said establishment, instead of bringing one's own, said establishment would be more profitable, therefore making the the prospect of redeveloping said establishment less attractive?

Oui/non?

Besides, i'm sure the couriers will find another place to hang out.

Yeah. back in my day it was the Duke Of York on Clerkenwell but the place kept getting busted.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=296343&page=5

it looks like it's all too late anyway...

So, if more drinks were bought from said establishment, instead of bringing one's own, said establishment would be more profitable, therefore making the the prospect of redeveloping said establishment less attractive?

Oui/non?

Sounds like a fair suggestion.

Unprofitable places inevitably examine their choices and choose to chase the money.

They serve Pitfield. That's pretty rare.

well it is only 30 metres from the brewery

it might not be a nice place, but the only place i know that will host any art exhibition. Apparently you just sign up and get a time slot?

And buy stuff not available elsewhere in London

What, like flat bar? You dont get any decent flatty here like you do in the west country!

it might not be a nice place, but the only place i know that will host any art exhibition. Apparently you just sign up and get a time slot?

And as such it's always full of dogshit art...

Sounds like a fair suggestion.

Unprofitable places inevitably examine their choices and choose to chase the money.

i have worked on about half a dozen redevelopments of pubs in london over the last six months. most of them weren't in central london, but they still seem to be attractive because of the amount of space a pub occupies.

And as such it's always full of dogshit art...

Amen.

I went in there once to see what all the hype was about, don't believe the hype.

well it is only 30 metres from the brewery

The brewery moved to Epping.