"It’s all changing, so you see change in the infrastructure, you see change in the buildings, you see change in the play areas, the park areas for the children."
Mustafer, Tee Bone Halal Butchers, 287 Hoxton Street, 2021
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"It’s all changing, so you see change in the infrastructure, you see change in the buildings, you see change in the play areas, the park areas for the children so everything. Change is always good, because they assess things and how it needs to be changed and change it in the right way. If it doesn't work, and the community is going to go against it and they have to change it back to the way it is. But yeah, change. is always appreciated. And down here in business sense change is good, because you see different people coming in, and different cultures coming in and it’s just growing."
Mustafer, Tee Bone Halal Butchers, 287 Hoxton Street, 2021
"There used to be a park. It was like a little kids, jungle gym thing, wherever. And I used to play there with my cousins a lot when they had the time to come here. And they recently broke it all down because it was like, all rusty and terrible. I feel like it had so much memories. And I felt like I wish I had time to take a picture of it so I could draw it or paint it. I managed to get around to doing that recently for school. Even though it was rundown and broken and probably dangerous. And probably it's good that it's gone. But I missed it a lot!"
Khajida Heath-Bailey, Peer Gallery Ambassador, 2020
"Recently, like, I remember that being a blockbuster there, and then there was a Tesco. And now there's like flats. And, to me, it's just etching away the community that surrounds that, because before we know, it probably Rio [cinema] will be gone too. Yeah, it's taking away all the kind of cultural landmarks or putting them in spaces where they don't necessarily belong, like Rio across from a block of flats that doesn’t feel right to me."
Tapiwa Cronin, Peer Gallery Ambassador, 2020