Save Our Heritage Trailer.mov

In recent years, the opportunity and need rose to develop the area, in anticipation of Londons Olympic bid, a new tube line for Hackney and urban regeneration efforts. The site of the old theatre at Dalston (a.k.a The Club Four Aces, a.k.a Labyrinth) lies very close to Dalston rail station and the famous Ridley Road market. An organization called OPEN formed to try to protect the site because of its cultural heritage, with support from an active cross-section of Hackneys people. Community consultation was almost entirely thwarted, in as much as a show of a consultation process was made, but objections made by OPEN at these meetings was virtually ignored, possibly due to the high value of land in central London coupled with the Councils greed for the highest possible revenue over and above the needs of the resident communities. Recently, the London Borough of Hackney exercised the right to compulsory re-possession of the premises and have proceeded to demolish, in a cloak-and-dagger effort, what OPEN have found to be the oldest existing buildings in Dalston.

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• dalston
• four aces club
• labyrinth
• winstan whitter
• hackney
• open dalston
• demolishon