If Hackney side-steps national policy here, it sets a catastrophic precedent: any grassroots venue in the UK could be placed in the same position by developers who choose not to mitigate noise.

For almost a year, MOTH Club and MVT have struggled to achieve meaningful engagement from planning officers, even after raising serious concerns about flawed reports, contradictory information, and failures in the consultation process.

The Council has sidelined the Agent of Change principle, ignored expert evidence, and withheld a key acoustic report from an FOI request while relying on assessments that independent specialists describe as “useless”.

This isn’t just a MOTH Club issue. It’s a test of whether planning protections for cultural spaces have any real weight.

Yeah, they do stretch it a bit, but generally a cracking day.

Next year will be my third, you'll have the best time.

Love Cruush, saw them a while back at Ramsgate Music Hall.

Listen to the single and pre order the album helicon-allover.lnk.to/arise

Listened and pre ordered, awesome tune.

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Playing our very own #ramsgatemusichall, ticket got, will be awesome.

Love to see them at #Ramsgatemusichall in deepest,darkest Thanet.