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To: Tulip Siddiq, Keir Starmer, Saddiq Khan
SAVE HATTON GARDEN
Please don't close down the jewellery workshops in Hatton Garden.
Why is this important?
Hatton Garden is the centre of the UK's diamond trade with over 300 businesses and 30 local shops, it has carried a long tradition of craft skills since the 19th century. But unfortunately the Landlords of several workshops have joined together and decided this December they'll be raising the rent to unaffordable levels.
There are several workshops in Hatton Garden who practice a craft that is dying out, there is little interest to be had by a younger generation but the workshops still offer apprenticeships to pass down the skills and craft necessary.
Many of these workshops have been informed by their landlords that on December 2016 their rent will be going up from £7,000 per month to £14,000! An unbelievable hike in rent which sadly will see the demise of many of these workshops, as many of the crafts people are old and haven't the time or money to find a new area to relocate to.
I believe it is a wonderful thing that you need a ring polished or a diamond to be set, a ring to be fixed or resized or to commission an engraving as a gift, you only have to travel to Hatton Garden and visit several workshops to get what you want done. However, if plans go ahead, next year you'll be looking at those workshops closed and replaced with more student housing and luxury apartment accommodation, whilst the majority of the workshops will just disappear and alongside them an entire trade.
Hatton Garden, with it's rich historic tapestry blending monarchy, religion, trade, craft and culture, is a bleeding heart worth saving.
E-mail Tulip Siddiq, Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan, we have until December before the rent hike, hopefully this can help.
http://www.tulipsiddiq.com/contact-me/
http://www.keirstarmer.com/contact-me
http://www.sadiqkhan.org.uk/get_help
A brief insight to this story was reported in August and can be read below:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hatton-garden-jewellery-district-faces-extinction-over-crossrail-rent-rises-a3321216.html
There are several workshops in Hatton Garden who practice a craft that is dying out, there is little interest to be had by a younger generation but the workshops still offer apprenticeships to pass down the skills and craft necessary.
Many of these workshops have been informed by their landlords that on December 2016 their rent will be going up from £7,000 per month to £14,000! An unbelievable hike in rent which sadly will see the demise of many of these workshops, as many of the crafts people are old and haven't the time or money to find a new area to relocate to.
I believe it is a wonderful thing that you need a ring polished or a diamond to be set, a ring to be fixed or resized or to commission an engraving as a gift, you only have to travel to Hatton Garden and visit several workshops to get what you want done. However, if plans go ahead, next year you'll be looking at those workshops closed and replaced with more student housing and luxury apartment accommodation, whilst the majority of the workshops will just disappear and alongside them an entire trade.
Hatton Garden, with it's rich historic tapestry blending monarchy, religion, trade, craft and culture, is a bleeding heart worth saving.
E-mail Tulip Siddiq, Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan, we have until December before the rent hike, hopefully this can help.
http://www.tulipsiddiq.com/contact-me/
http://www.keirstarmer.com/contact-me
http://www.sadiqkhan.org.uk/get_help
A brief insight to this story was reported in August and can be read below:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hatton-garden-jewellery-district-faces-extinction-over-crossrail-rent-rises-a3321216.html
