please empty your brain below

Is the "predict" thing a vote? As I don't see a button to submit my predictions.
Not just flats, but luxury "apartments". Sigh.
Now they'll have to buy those water cannons and get the police to put out fires.
Yep more Flats I expect.

The new disease of East London
The previous fire Station Building which stood on this site was much grander, a proper Victorian building with ornate brickwork etc, I will mourn the loss of the fire station but I shall rejoice when this vile bland building is demolished.
I can't see how safe it is to shut Silvertown at the moment when the nearby Plaistow has been knocked down and being rebuilt.

Looks like it will be months maybe a year before Plaistow is operational again.
None of the above: an ironically/moronically named hipster bar, 'Going to blazes'.
Sad day for Foxtrot 27 Bow R.I.P.
I hope people will remember this day when they turn out to vote next time.
"derelict shell",
after burning down before the fire brigade could get there
There seems to be a missing destiny option - "Fire station"!
Another one for the R.I.P list :(
I took a journey along the Old Kent Road a little while ago [last month in fact], and was surprised to see fresh hoardings up around the fire station there.
I needed to take the same route again a few days later and this time made a point of taking a closer look. The building (not unlike the one you show) was there the first time I passed by but by the time I got there again it had been reduced to rubble. Gone.

(It's perhaps only fair to add, after checking, that it appears the Old Kent Rd station is to be rebuilt [ie.as a new more up-to=date fire station])
I've been round to snap the 10 stations that have closed. I cannot see the logic for closing any of them even tiny stations like Downham - located in the midst of a massive housing estate. Why close Fire Stations in areas like Silvertown and Farringdon which will undoubtedly see huge development in years to come (courtesy of Crossrail in both cases)?

It's a very sad day and a massive mistake by the Mayor who has mismanaged both the Police and the Fire Brigade since he came to power.
For the people living near Bow fire station this is probably bad news. For the whole of London?

Hopefully it is the most efficient way to distribute the available resources for maximum benefit to everyone.

However, one person receiving a big disadvantage feels a lot more painful than the small benefit felt by an awful lot of people.
As a person living near Bow fire station, I consider this bad news.

I'm aware that the rest of London, away from the ten condemned fire stations, probably doesn't give a toss.

But that doesn't make it a good thing.
Parts of the rest of London may also be near one of the fire stations which has remained open, but has been cut to a single fire engine where it previously had two. Chingford, Hayes, Leyton, Leytonstone, Peckham and Whitechapel have all been cut down to just one fire engine.

The benefits are limited to one additional engine at five stations - East Greenwich, Orpington, Hendon, Stanmore and Twickenham. Note that four of those five are in outer London; most (although not all) of the cuts have fallen on inner London.

But don't be fooled. These are cuts. The number of fire engines in London has been cut by 8%. In many areas, you will now wait longer for the first fire engine to arrive on scene; in many areas you will also wait longer for the second one. Fire doesn't wait.
LFB were given loads more tenders after the 1987 King's Cross fire because London Underground were calling them out 5-10 times per day! Not only does that no longer happen, but fire safety is better across the board. Most materials in homewares are now fire resistant and smoke alarms are the norm.

This should have happened years ago, when the number of call outs dipped to what it is now.










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