Well, that's not going to be distracting to car and train drivers! And that's during the day.

It's one thing having this view from a hotel room that you choose to stay in temporarily, knowing the Sphere is there, it's quite another to have it imposed on you, in your pre-existing home. #StopMSGSphere #lightpollution #Nightsky #mentalhealth

More [worrying] evidence here of the longer term consequences of using urban public spaces as mega-event venues. Other examples discussed here in an #openaccess paper I wrote with David McGillivray tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Migliaia di persone a Cortina d'Ampezzo per dire no alla pista da bob e alla cementificazione per le #Olimpiadi. Serve difendere la natura e gli ecosistemi che ci permettono di vivere dalle parole vuote di chi si finge sostenibile e permette queste distruzioni.

“Everyone should be able to enjoy the sky at night and...a home...free from advertising ... People in hotel rooms in Vegas...only have to put up with it for a day or two but the fact that would become your daily life feels inhumane.” Thanx to Zack Polanski telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

This is why MSG said they would only build the Sphere in #Stratford if they were granted advertising consent for the development's lifetime. They got 25 years, 5x longer than any normal advertising consent. So they can pull in £100,000s, while residents' lives are blighted by it.

Murky Depths #Newham is London's joint 2nd poorest borough. It won't be locals who can afford to go to the Sphere, it'll be 1000s of people coming from elsewhere who have the privilege of leaving it & going home. East London's residents have had countless developments done to them. Not again.

Stop MSG Sphere London Horrific. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan this must be stopped.

We really don't understand how the Lee Valley Park is getting a Green Flag award for the #Waterworks considering its shocking neglect of the Nature Reserve and Waterworks Centre!

Important. Pls spread word 100,000s of people, mostly women age 66+ who took were off work for childcare between 1978 & 2010, are due to get HMRC letter that may be worth £10,000s due to underpaid state pensions. It isn't a scam DON'T bin the letter. See moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/10/h…

A petition calling to bring back Growing Concerns garden centre at Wick Lane has attracted 820 signatures (and counting!) 🌵🌻🪴 The community garden closed in autumn last year after Clarion Housing terminated its lease. romanroadlondon.com/growing-concer…

Facebook took this down from our Facebook site! "A group participant shared a post that goes against our Community Standards on cybersecurity" Idiots!

Image shows graph of #phosphate concentration in our loval river. Going up and down but set to increase with the heavy rain forecast. Sampling done monthly on Old #RiverLea Always massively over safe/ good levels. #LeaGuardians #SewageScandal

If Kermit's back that must mean... The MSG Sphere application has finally been referred to the Mayor of London. His decision is expected on 20 Nov so please send in your objections NOW on their simple form. buff.ly/3Mz6y73 Read the 🧵 for some suggested points to make.

Loss of residential amenity: Scale of development is overbearing. Residents, some 50-75m away, will suffer from light pollution. Stratford station already has dangerous overcrowding and LLDC acknowledges it'll see worse congestion in some areas. Concurrent events at Sphere... 2/5

...and Stadium inevitable and would see “significantly higher levels of crowding and delays”. Highway safety - LLDC acknowledges "uncertainty" remains regarding the illuminated facade's impact on road safety & distraction Traffic - an extra 863,590 car movements per year 3/5

Noise pollution for residents from 21,500 people leaving at night. Impact on heritage & local townscape - not in keeping with the local area and will damage the setting of nearby heritage buildings Building height - almost as tall as Big Ben it will dominate the area 4/5

Environmental impact - zero carbon target not met, carbon emissions so high £2.6m offsetting required. Not compliant with London plan - cycling modal share just 0.44%. Other - only 175FTE resident jobs in construction & 543 once operational, split across all 5 boroughs. 5/5

MSG Sphere application has been referred to Mayor of London. It would look very like this one in Vegas, but on a cramped site in Stratford with residential properties on 3 sides, some just 50m away. Decision by 20 Nov so object NOW via the comments form. buff.ly/3Mz6y73