tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post4912510120440659724..comments2008-06-12T07:42:02.476+01:00About OPEN Dalstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13209133949209769082noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-19879293823663896622008-06-12T01:53:00.000+01:002008-06-12T01:53:00.000+01:00I would like to take Jules Pipe for a meal at the Ganges, on Dalston Lane and when he gets there, he should let the owners have a chat to him about who they think had kept Hackney crap. For a start, they were told by LBH to come to an auction of Dalston Lane properties so that they could buy the derelict shop adjacent to theirs. When they got there, they found that there was a deal already in place. The 14 shops up for sale had been put into one lot and were sold to one buyer, an offshore or nominally offshore property developer. Since that time, (two years, three years ago? ) the properties have continued to deteriorate. As I eat at the Ganges or get my takeaways there (excellent food, by the way), I've followed the appalling catalogue of problems faced by the Ganges people. For a while there was an open main flooding the place, it became an unofficial public toilet and at least two of the properties have been torched. The Ganges itself has now been ruined from the property next door due to the damp coming through. Their ceiling has fallen in, the false wall they put between the restaurant and the party wall has become wet. <BR/><BR/>Yes, Mr Pipes, come down and explain to the Ganges people how you believe in safeguarding Hackney's historic buildings, and how you are creating a bright new shiny Hackney. Explain how precisely in the midst of a credit crunch and a massive housing and building slump, your sums add up and why Barratts will finish the job and why Barratts et al will sell all the properties they're building.Michael Rosenwww.michaelrosen.co.uknoreply@blogger.com