Precious petition goes live
The petition opposing Wandsworth Council’s proposed commercial football complex on the Triangle is now live. Sign up now up and please encourage everyone you know who is against the plan to sign up too. Do make a comment too - it helps add weight and credibility. We’re aiming for at least 1,000 signatures by Easter.
Please note all personal information is treated in the strictest confidence by the petition facilitator.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
This is an area of well loved and used common ground. The proposed plan will have huge environmental and social implications, and will impact on the quality of life for the may local residents who use it.
February 20th, 2008 at 1:19 am
My daughter attends The Waldorf School of S.W. London. This is situated on the border of the Tooting Triangle. The school is threatened with closure under Wandsworth Council’s scheme. My daughter’s education began at the Waldorf School at age 4. She is now about to turn 11 and is supposed to continue in her education there until she is 14. It is a wonderful school and blends harmoniously with the beautiful environs of the triangle.
Capitalism of the worst kind? Hedonism? Naievety, or plain stupidity? My anger at this blatant attack on my daughter’s human right to a choice in her education is equal to my sense of horror at the devastation to the local environment this madcap scheme will cause.
This cynical development must be nipped in the bud…
February 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Save Tooting Common! from a concerned local resident who uses the common a lot and prefers it to be left just as it is.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am
These past few beautiful sunny days it has been a pleasure to walk over the common, and be surrounded by greenery. It is easy to imagine you are actually in the countryside. I have seen and photographed a heron by the pond, and I have not seen this on previous walks. I suspect that football will put an end to this bird visiting our common. The noise of rowdy players and supporters, (usually accompanied by foul language)not to mention refereees whistles will shatter the tranquility of our COMMON completely. Keep the common for the many who enjoy it, not just the few who will ruin it.
Muriel Gibson
February 20th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
No to the development.
Tooting Common belongs to the people.
It will attract even more drunken idiots than we have now.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
This is a hideous plan to decimate an existing unspoilt area of countryside in an urban neighbourhood. There are other spots that could be chosen for football pitches. The Triangle is a quiet, secluded natural area with some unique flora and fauna. It is a safe haven away from traffic for families, dog walkers and anyone who wants to play games and sport and it should remain so. Local opinion is overwhelmingly against the proposal.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Just brilliant isn’t it. When will this madness stop?
There’s not many places left where one can go on saturday with the family and now they want to take it away.
Please sign the petition
February 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
The local community are the people that the council should represent for the short and the long term. Local green space this close to central London is essential to the survival of a well planned, balanced urban environment and makes London a beautiful city, respected by the world. Save London’s green spaces, and the Tooting Triangle is a very special one.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
The Council has no right to infringe on land integral to the Triangle area of the common. The idea of compensating with adjacent land currently used by a community school is amoral.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
The proposed development by Wandsworth Council must be stopped.
The limited green spaces available to London must be protected.
The councillors who proposed this scheme should be ashamed.