Save Camberwell Village Hall

[eusebiovic]

Planning permission has been applied for by House of Faith (R.C.C.G) to turn the last purpose-built cinema/theatre hall in Camberwell into a church. Help us to oppose planning permission and secure an arts venue for South East London along the lines of BAC or Camden Arts Centre.


Please take a look and sign our petition if you agree with a cinema/cultural/community facility for Camberwell - Remember, it will be also be open to of all neighbouring communities in South London - which is just as important.


[www.ipetitions.com]

Also visit our webpage or facebook page which is listed at the beginning of this thread.

Best Regards,

Euse

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Planning permission has been applied for by House of Faith (R.C.C.G) to turn the last purpose-built cinema/theatre hall in Camberwell into a church. Help us to oppose planning permission and secure an arts venue for South East London along the lines of BAC or Camden Arts Centre.


Please take a look and sign our petition if you agree with a cinema/cultural/community facility for Camberwell - Remember, it will be also be open to of all neighbouring communities in South London - which is just as important.


www.ipetitions.com

Also visit our webpage or facebook page which is listed at the beginning of this thread.

Best Regards,

Euse

all your links are broken including the petition by the looks of things

and the domain linked has expired

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

christ that was so broken i had to look in the source code

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/camberwellvillagehallcampaign/

that's the link

 

[fogbat]

Dear evangelical Christians of Camberwell:

It's ok. God's happy now. You have built enough churches.

 

[corporate whore]

Pah - the lord will not be sated until every dwelling and business from Camberwell Green to Burgess Park does sing his praises both day and night.

First they took cash converters, then the DIY shop and now the bingo hall shall be theirs!

Unless.... you sign the frickin' petition.

 

[fogbat]

Some nice borderline-racist comments on the petition.

Plus a person describing others as stupid, while writing "Christains"

 

[Crispy]

Signed it.

It does niggle me a that the campaign is about saving the "Village Hall" - Camberwell is not a village and the building is an old cinema...

 

[ajdown]

I wonder whether we can mobilise more Christians to sign the petition against turning the old bingo hall/cinema into an "arts centre" instead?

Disregard the 'arts centre' idea for the moment - would people rather have the building kept and turned into a church, or have it knocked down and turned into more overpriced flats?

Pity you can't view the comments without "signing" the petition first - which I don't feel I can do.

 

[fogbat]

I wonder whether we can mobilise more Christians to sign the petition against turning the old bingo hall/cinema into an "arts centre" instead?

Disregard the 'arts centre' idea for the moment - would people rather have the building kept and turned into a church, or have it knocked down and turned into more overpriced flats?

Pity you can't view the comments without "signing" the petition first - which I don't feel I can do.

Flats just about wins out, for me.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Flats just about wins out, for me.

Me too.

Plenty of places for worship in Camberwell already.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Pity you can't view the comments without "signing" the petition first - which I don't feel I can do.

er... yes you can

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/camberwellvillagehallcampaign/signatures

 

[ajdown]

Interesting how 500 churchgoers attending the venue for a service will cause disruption, parking problems, congestion on public transport and noise for the local residents... but 500 people going to an event if it was an art venue won't cause any of it?

 

[fogbat]

Interesting how 500 churchgoers attending the venue for a service will cause disruption, parking problems, congestion on public transport and noise for the local residents... but 500 people going to an event if it was an art venue won't cause any of it?

Yep - that's a pretty crap argument.

 

[eusebiovic]

Most people who visit The Ritzy use public transport or cycle or walk - don't you agree? ;-)

 

[ajdown]

Given that there is nowhere decent to park in Brixton, you don't have a great deal of choice if you want to go to the Ritzy.

This is not racist but a factual observation. The problem, I think, is the nature of 'predominantly black mega-churches' which this one is. Whereas with many other Christian churches (Baptist, Methodist, CofE, Independent Evangelical etc) the congregation is made up of people that go to their local church (and thus will walk) with many of these sort of churches people do travel some distance because it's "the place to be seen" and thus by definition will generally drive there. I do find many of these sort of churches rather shallow where there is more emphasis on the "showmanship" of those leading the congregation, the loudness and liveliness of the music and the "special effects" rather than than the quality and depth of Bible teaching. Oh, and "give more because the Lord will bless you in return".

The general remit of any Christian Church should be to be part of the community and impact the community around it. Unfortunately, "causing parking chaos" is not necessarily one of those ways...

Although I would tend to agree that the building itself is not necessarily ideally placed for what they have in mind, going back to my previous point, are we sure that the noise and disruption of 500 people going to/from Bingo was any different to that of 500 worshippers?

 

[corporate whore]

There was never 500 people at the bingo, at least not all at once. That's why it's not the bingo any more.

 

[ajdown]

Oh ok.

Never been to bingo. It's all a bit, you know, lower class.

 

[fogbat]

Oh ok.

Never been to bingo. It's all a bit, you know, lower class.

In fairness, even if there were 500 bingo players, they'd mainly be quiet, elderly people waiting for the sweet release of death. They probably wouldn't make as much noise as churchgoers.

 

[IMR]

Why don't they have a church-bingo hall mashup? Number seven - straight to heaven.