Streatham Hub Public Meeting #1 - so what did we learn?

So Council officers and Tesco came to Streatham to report on the Hub status. Streatham Action hosted a public meeting at the Streatham Business Centre and both sides presented the side of things they wanted us to hear, and were asked questions. We will be uploading a redux of the minutes taken (there were pages and pages) as soon as a copy is available, but in the meantime, what did we learn?

Basically we don’t know much more from what was said at the meeting, than we did before. However, if you’ve been following this in the press, there are 5 salient things I felt were the most important in relation to public perceptions. These are (in no particular order of importance or priority except the first two are mainly Lambeth issues; the rest mainly Tescos’ issues), Lambeth masterplan as regards Streatham, lack of development South of St Leonards church, Tescos blame for the housing market, uncertainty over pool and ice skating provision and the expiration of planning permission in 2012.

Firstly, we found out about the Masterplan council officers keep going on about, and exactly what it’s good for…..