CAMPAIGNERS waging a legal battle to block the Crystal Palace Park leisure development, have urged their backers to boycott Bromley Council-sponsored events. The Crystal Palace Campaign launched the appeal at public meetings and has delivered 30,000 leaflets to homes in the vicinity of Crystal Palace, explaining the plan.

The leaflet says: "If we act together we have real economic power. We intend to establish the biggest economic blockade in British environmental history.

"We call on the community, for as long as Bromley is proceeding with these proposals, to boycott all Bromley-sponsored events.

"We also ask the community to pledge that if the multiplex is built, we will not visit it."

Consultant for the campaign Richard Moore said the scheme had almost "total support" in the community, and would have a "substantial" effect on Bromley's purse-strings.

"It is aimed at anything which will have an effect on Bromley's finances. We have had sack-loads of letters coming in from people saying they would not use the cinema complex."

A Bromley Council spokesman said: "It's a boycott of the site and that's a matter for the developers and doesn't effect the council. We have no evidence that any call for a boycott has been successful. Recent council events have been well-attended.

"We don't believe the Crystal Palace Campaign has the support of people in the area."

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