Stokey Local

Stokey local is a loose consortium of interested residents, businesses and amenity groups who oppose the plans to build a 4,100 sq m Sainsbury’s supermarket with four storeys of residential housing on top of it at Wilmer Place, hard by Abney Park cemetery. We believe the development will, amongst other things, damage the rich biodiversity of the cemetery, ruin it’s seclusion, harm the Stoke Newington Conservation Area and the listed heritage assets of the cemetery, and have a significant, negative effect on the local economy.