Micronomics

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New to the Spectacle Archive

Interviews and footage from Spectacle’s Micronomics Project is now available through our Archive.

Micronomics investigates an understanding of small scale self-organised (micro-)initiatives and whether the economy has room for them.

The film considers their potential to challenge the dominant definition of ‘the economy’ and implication, when the value created and exchanged is of social nature.

Details about the project are now available, visit the Project Page for more details.

Watch all clips associated with Micronomics.

Learn about the group Bicycology which features in the project. Watch the Bicycology interviews.

Information about Cycle Training UK and watch the interviews.

Clips from Spectacle’s Waffle Bank shoot with Refugee Youth will also be uploaded to the archive.

Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo Tour Dates

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New and updated Tour Dates of Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo have now been added to the Spectacle Events Page.

Screenings of Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo are taking place all over the UK over the next few months. Tour dates and details are now on our Events section.

If you are interested in organising a screening in your area contact us now

Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo is available to purchase now, click here for more details

Find out more about Spectacle’s Guantanamo Project

Visit our Archive for extra interviews and more

Find out more about Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

Residents Object to Planning Applications

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Many residents of Chelsea Bridge Wharf Apartments have strongly objected to the new plans for Battersea Power Station.

Over twenty objection letters were sent from residents in relation to the applications. The most common complaints included:

  • Loss of view from the flats
  • Decrease of light in to accommodation
  • Very little privacy
  • Increase of noise and dust for the residents

These complaints from residents are amongst many objections to the new plans for Battersea Power Station, highlighting the public outcry at these proposals.

To read about the Planning Applications or to read the Objection Comments click here.

Find out more about Spectacle’s Battersea Power Station Project

For interviews and more visit Spectacle’s Archive

Kew Bridge Steam Museum Objection Letter

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The Chairman of the Kew Bridge Engines Trust, which is responsible for managing and operating the water pumping station at Kew Bridge as a self supporting museum, has objected the plans to demolish the Battersea Water Pumping Station on behalf of the trust.

The main objections from the Kew Bridge Engined Trusts were;

  • The pumping station could be easily repaired, the trust had known similar buildings successfully brought back to use.
  • No effort appears to have been put in to the plans to save the building or provide alternative uses for it.
  • Lack of variety of ideas for developing the site. The architectural quality of the developments do not justify the loss of a historic building.

Objections towards the new planning applications for Battersea Power Station are still being submitted to the Council. The public still has great interest in the fate of this iconic landmark.

For further information on the planning application and to read further objections click here

Watch footage from the Power Station on Spectacle’s Archive Page

Learn about Spectacle’s Battersea Power Station Project by visiting Spectacle’s Project Page

Battersea Power Station Planning Applications

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Battersea Power Station Planning Applications Overloaded with Information.

On the 22nd October 2009, the planning applications for Battersea Power Station were submitted and made available to the public. The public then had until the 1st February 2010 to submit their objections and comments.

The plans with reference numbers; 2009/3575, 2009/3576, 2009/3577, 2009/3578.

Application 2009/3575 contained four application documents, which were made available to the public on the 22nd October last year. The application also contained approximately 20 reports many in several parts (up to eleven) and many with numerous appendices. Over three hundred drawings of the proposed plans were also included; these were only made available to the public in December 2009.

The sheer volume of materials provided about the plans and the limited time available to respond,  made it very difficult to firstly access all the information and to make a fully informed opinion on the plans.

For more information on the applications click here

Details on Spectacle’s Battersea Power Station Project

To watch interviews and footage from the Power Station visit Spectacle’s Archive

Vito Interview

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New to the Spectacle Archive

Interview with Vito.

With his family’s burger van in danger Vito talks to Spectacle about his worries.

WATCH Vito’s Interview.

For details on our Battersea Power Station Project visit Spectacle’s Project Page.

To watch interviews and more visit Spectacle’s Archive.

Kew Bridge Eco Village Planning Meeting Tonight

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Planning Meeting about Kew Bridge Eco Village.

The next Planning Meeting to decide the fate of the Eco Village’s land at Kew Bridge takes place tonight at 7.30pm at Hounslow Civic Centre.

The Eco Village urges people to support their cause:

“We need your help to oppose the monstrous development St Georges want to build!  Since September, St Georges have gotten cocky and reduced the amount of affordable housing from 26% to 13%!! When the ‘London Plan’ seeks a 50% minimum of social housing.  This is not acceptable when so many people are seeking affordable homes in Brentford and Hounslow.

A big presence of local people and supporters will put pressure on the council to refuse this ridiculous application!!

So please come down to Hounslow Civic Centre on Wednesday 17th February at 7.30pm!! Or meet at the Eco Village at 6pm and walk with us!”

WATCH Spectacle’s Film featuring the Eco Village.

LEARN more about Spectacle’s Projects.

WATCH Specatcle’s Land Is Ours footage.

Battersea Power Station

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New to the Spectacle Archive

From gracing the covers of a Pink Floyd album to dominating the Skyline of London, Battersea Power Station is one of the capital’s greatest cultural icons. Yet since being decomissioned in 1983, the building has steadily deteriorated while waiting for development plans to come into fruition. Spectacle has been following the ongoing proposed plans for the iconic building.

Now available on Spectacle’s Archive page is footage from Control Room A and Control Room B within the Power Station.

Footage from the REO Exhibit including interviews with local residents (Alan and Terry)  is also available.

More on the Battersea Power Station Project.

For more interviews and extras visit the Spectacle Archive.

The Victorian Society’s Objection Letter

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The Victorian Society’s Objection Letter to the Battersea Power Station Planning Application.

Battersea Water Pumping Station, Cringle Street, Battersea: Application for Listed Building Consent for demolition (Grade II, 1840 & 1860)

The Victorian Society is one of many to write an objection letter in relation to the recent plans to demolish the former water pumping station at the Battersea Power Station.

The letter outlined the reasons behind the ‘strong objection’ of the Society towards the plan.

The Society highlights the water pumping station, as ‘an important historic building, the significance of which cannot be adequately appreciated once dispersed on and off the development site.’

The Society feels the applicants (with the exception of the Power Station) have approached the site as a ‘blank canvas,’  with no consideration that the pump station will be saved. The application states that the plans, ‘would bring substantial benefits for the community.’ The Victorian Society points out that there is nothing, ‘in the application to show that the same public benefit could not be brought about if the pumping station were incorporated within the new development.’

The letter also outlined, ‘The Battersea Power Station Company is a trust established in 2002.  One of its objectives is the preservation of the pumping station.  The company achieved charitable status in 2005.  They would be happy to take ownership of the building if the owner no longer requires it.  They would be happy to raise funds to repair the building.’

The closing statement of the Society ‘s Objection Letter:

‘We urge your Council to refuse Listed Building Consent for the demolition of the pumping station.  The applicant should develop a scheme that takes account of the significance of the whole site and all the listed buildings within it, not just the power station.’

The Victorian Society’s Objection Letter is just one example of many objection to the plans to demolish the water pumping station.

To read the full Objection Letter, click here and use the reference 2010/01/012.

For further information on the planning application and to read further objections click here

Read other planning applications by clicking here and using application numbers; 2009/3575, 2009/2576, 2009/3577.

Watch footage from the Power Station on Spectacle’s Archive Page

Learn about Spectacle’s Battersea Power Station Project by visiting Spectacle’s Project Page

Omar Deghayes, former Guantanamo Bay detainee, describes his interrogation by British Intelligence

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VIDEO INTERVIEW: FORMER GUANTANÁMO DETAINEE ON BRITISH COMPLICITY IN TORTURE

Omar Deghayes, former Guantanamo Bay detainee, describes his interrogation by British Intelligence agent, “Andrew’, and others (MI5 and MI6) while held illegally in Pakistan, before being sold into US custody and rendered to Bagram prison in Afghanistan and subjected to torture. This is an extended rough cut from Spectacle’s film: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo”

WATCH Omar Deghayes’ interview

For related interviews and extras visit Spectacle’s Archive Page

For further information on the Guantanamo Project visit Spectacle’s Project Page

To find out when/where screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo” are taking place visit Spectacle’s Events Page