qwerty wrote:And another thing! MMTP would be in completely the wrong location i.e. slap bang in the heart of a residential area. The noise, pedicabs, coaches, litter, last minute pee stops on your porches and 500-1000 revellers every night is enough to make you shout S.O.S.!
Louise King, Coin Street Community Bu wrote:The permanent use of this site is phase 2 of our neighbourhood centre (the Mamma Mia! The Party proposal is for temporary use). In fact this site has never been earmarked or received consent for housing.
We are proud to have built 220 award-winning co-operative homes and would love to build more. We are currently discussing creating intermediate co-operative housing for rent within our Doon Street scheme. This is our aspiration and we are investigating the viability.
We are a social enterprise. The rent paid by MMTP for the use of the site will contribute to the costs of maintaining Bernie Spain Garden and the riverside walkway, and to provide community activities including family support for vulnerable and challenged families in Lambeth and Southwark, our children’s nursery which acts as an enhanced provider for children with special educational needs, and our wide ranging community programmes including free activities and events and learning, employment and training support for local people.
We know visitor management is key for local residents, particularly around guests arriving and leaving the proposed MMTP venue. This is a priority for us and the MMTP team and we are committed to ensuring an appropriate operational management regime is in place.
You’ll find further details on our website http://coinstreet.org/mamma-mia-the-party/
Louise King, Coin Street Community Bu wrote:In fact this site has never been earmarked or received consent for housing.
Louise King, Coin Street Community Bu wrote:We are proud to have built 220 award-winning co-operative homes
Louise King, Coin Street Community Bu wrote:The rent paid by MMTP for the use of the site will contribute to the costs of maintaining ...
Louise King, Coin Street Community Bu wrote:We know visitor management is key for local residents
Louise King, Coin St wrote:Question: is Coin Street's massive 4-storey Neighbourhood Centre already the biggest in the UK per resident it serves? (you serve 220 households). Does it need a "phase 2"?"The permanent use of this site is phase 2 of our neighbourhood centre (the Mamma Mia! The Party proposal is for temporary use)."
Louise King, Coin St wrote:Question: didn't Coin St acquire this site along with a dozen others for peanuts TO BUILD SOCIAL RENT HOUSING?"In fact this site has never been earmarked or received consent for housing."
Louise King, Coin St wrote:Question: well then, why don't you? You haven't built any housing since 2002. You have sites vacant for decades (including the Mamma Mia site) which could have had housing on. You were supposed ro build homes for 1,300 residents, but you haven't built half of that in over 30 years. In 2007 you reported your next venture was sheltered housing on Gabriel's Wharf, and this summer -a decade later - you repeated the same claim. What has happened in the intervening decade?"We are proud to have built 220 award-winning co-operative homes and would love to build more."
Louise King, Coin St wrote:Question: how much rent do you get in from all the commercial activities you run? We know you get £600k a year renting out the piece of grass in front of ITV where the Garden Bridge would have landed. Similar rents across your vacant sites must haul in several million pounds per year, along with rents from Gabriel's Wharf, Oxo tower, NCP car parks, hiring out of the Neighbourhood Centre etcWe are a social enterprise. The rent paid by MMTP for the use of the site will contribute to the costs of maintaining Bernie Spain Garden and the riverside walkway, and to provide community activities etc.
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