The Dame is finding it very difficult to write unkind things about our Council and that is a good thing.
Times are definitely changing and there is no doubt the Council is striving to be more accountable to residents.
The new crop of councillors are certainly of a much higher quality.
One resident has written to the Dame about the hideous 'sculpture' erected by Decaux, the Paris based purveyors of street tat and designed by Zaha Hadid, the firm who like to take the coin of violent dictators.
The people of Paris would never put up with this so why should we?
Dear Dame
I hope you are well. Would you like to run a story on the awful LED
advertising boards being installed around RBKC in recent years.
I am not sure if you have noticed the huge number of high resolution,
light polluting LED advertising boards which have sprung up all over
RBKC in recent years.
Absolutely shocked by Zaha Hadid's recent monstrous advertising installation in Cromwell Road - the size of it is mind blowing.
We do not need to be forced fed consumer advertising at every turn - there is only one Piccadilly Circus, and even that has been ruined by LED advertising. Will RBKC be putting these advertising boards up in Eaton Square, Sloane Square, Cadogan Square, Beauchamp Place?
Usually on 24/7 - what is going on with RBKC and the planning inspectorate, why are they allowed to get away with this in the densely populated residential area which is RBKC.
These boards diminish the quality of life for local residents and the view of them harms our surroundings. Click HORROR
Best
(anon)
Well, the Cromwell Road site has an interesting history. The previous 'advertising hoarding'(actually more like a small building) was also huge, setting the precedent for this one. The planning application drawings showed a doorway in the end elevation, the proportions of a normal domestic door. When it was built it was seen that the 'door' was actually twice as big as a domestic door, and the rest of the construction was, consequently, twice as big as was expected.
ReplyDeleteINVASION of LED signboards, BT flash advertising, bus shelter flash LED advertising diminishing bench seats for the elderly. Are they preparing for an AI takeover where humans are irrelevant - consumer world domination. Not to mention distraction danger to pedestrians and drivers - thought reading devices at the wheel was illegal - these signs are no different!
ReplyDeleteBombarded at every turn by this awful stuff.
There is a reason why we are flooded with LED lights from advertising board to street lamps. Its frequency range affects our health. I guess yet another way to make us ill. First it was chemicals in food & water, then air pollution and now LED and 5G onwards and upwards!
ReplyDeleteAdvertising firm JCDecaux has teamed up with Zaha Hadid’s design arm for a giant billboard in west London.
ReplyDelete30m WIDE and 9m TALL !!!!!!
The structure on Kensington’s West Cromwell Road hosts an LED screen with a surface area secured in a swirling stainless-steel frame that is 30m wide and 9m tall.
Carmaker Audi and cosmetics firm Coty are the first firms to sign up to advertise their products on the billboard.
Buro Happold carried out structural and civil engineering work on the structure which was completed by Hampshire contractor Knights Brown. QS was London firm Lavingtons.
JCDeceaux has previously worked with a who’s who of design and architecture talent, including Norman Foster and Philippe Starck. But the billboard is Zaha Hadid’s first such project. She designed it two years before her death in 2016.
Do we really want this rubbish in the middle of London? I think not.
ReplyDeleteIt would fit better in Dubai.
Does Owl spend time in Dubai?
DeleteThe Dame knows all about Cllr Moylan and JCDeceaux. Croissants...anyone!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, it's all here. Danny Boy paid for brekkie with Monsieur Jean Jean of Decaux. https://fromthehornetsnest.blogspot.com/2017/02/whos-getting-french-bung.html
ReplyDeleteWHO will pay resident compensation for LED pollution into their homes RBKC or Decaux?
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