{"id":4334,"date":"2021-03-21T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2021-03-21T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:11:32","slug":"i-saw-an-eyesore-1-the-ugly-side-of-docklands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/21\/i-saw-an-eyesore-1-the-ugly-side-of-docklands\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw an eyesore 1: the ugly side of Docklands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PRIVATELY OWNED parts of Tower Hamlets, which like to style themselves as \u201cDocklands\u201d for marketing purposes, present themselves as pristine areas \u2013 new and better looking than parts of East London run by public local authoirities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, in real life it doesn\u2019t matter who owns an area \u2013 it will only look as good as the maintenance you put into it. In some areas, the boundaries between public and private areas are not immediately clear: each owner leaves it to the other one, and the area festers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This seems to be what has happened in the case of the pedestrian path between 31 Millharbour and a building, just to its north, which houses various operations called \u201cLantern\u201d \u2013 a nursery and a college at least. The area is on the Isle of Dogs, E14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The western end of the path has been fairly reasonably swept, but the eastern end has collected leaves and empty bottles of alcohol: as if crowds of people were gathering there for frequent parties. There\u2019s also an amount of other general rubbish and some community street art of a phallic nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the eastern end is the \u201cpatch of bewildered earth\u201d \u2013 the sight which developers would probably say only occurs in areas owned and managed by public bodies. It\u2019s a patch of bare earth which is an unfulfilled planting opportunity: one weed has made a determined attempt to colonise the impacted earth, it\u2019s too windswept to collect much rubbish (though some leaves have collected together to resist the wind) and it signals neglect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The question is who owns this pathway and who should clear it. This sort of area is the sort of place that charitable trusts and boy scouts go to have a clean up, as they try to do good. For \u201cdoing good\u201d, read \u201creplace the public sector\u201d. These occasional clean ups let local authorities, who should be clearing up their own sites and making private owners do so with theirs, off the hook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until we find out who is responsible for this area, we are left reminded that the concept of \u201cDocklands\u201d is a very thin veneer which is soon scratched off everyday reality.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u25cfTo catch up with the news in East London, go to:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlondonnews.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>East London News<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u25cfWatch East London\u2019s weekly news magazine programme,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">live at 10pm every Tuesday and on demand all week:<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VodTalk\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The Tuesday Show<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRIVATELY OWNED parts of Tower Hamlets, which like to style themselves as \u201cDocklands\u201d for marketing purposes, present themselves as pristine areas \u2013 new and better looking than parts of East London run by public local authoirities. 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