Save Waterloo's Paradise

Lambeth Council and the Mayor of London have approved an oversized and unnecessary office development that will trash irreplaceable public resources, green spaces, heritage buildings and a unique creative enclave… while releasing a tsunami of CO2 into the atmosphere. The Secretary of State has declined to call in the proposals for a Public Inquiry. They have joined the landowner, Guy's and St Thomas's Foundation, in choosing to put profit before people and the planet.

In doing so, they ignored many written objections from local residents, small businesses and community groups, objections from several respected national and international organisations concerned with heritage and the environment, and all 37,000+ (at the time of Lambeth’s meeting) signatories of our petition. Now over 45,000 have signed.

Now the Foundation is punishing some of those who exercised their democratic right to object to their plans by reneging on previous commitments to allow tenants of Old Paradise Yard to remain onsite until the development can proceed (which is at last a year in the future).