The Metropolis

New London trend: being unsewer

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 30 June, 2011 11:14

Sewer pipe, Hyde Park. Photo by Thames Water.
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The whole scheme stinks. It stinks of out-of-touch government agencies mandating things based on paper—not people. And it stinks of big business steamrolling over local interests, not to mention our property prices, our public health, and our peace of life.

That’s Rats, the Fulham anti-sewer campaign.

I use this park daily. I’m an old east-ender. I’ve lived here all my life, and I’ve had to watch everything that is ours taken away from us; they’ve built Canary Wharf, and the whole of our river is gone to their flats. This is our last little bit of river, this is our last bit of heritage, this is all we’ve got left and they’re not taking it away, no way.

And that’s SaveKEMP in Tower Hamlets. Sewers are so out this year.

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