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The whole letter from A Folly For London and other signitories is published here:

Www.afollyforlondon.co.uk/open-letters

You can help too - email Cllr Jack Hopkins today before he makes his decision on Thursday:

jhopkins@lambeth.gov.uk



But this isn't a "last-minute" attempt and the horse hasn't bolted.

The Garden Bridge Trust still don't have all planning conditions. They are £30m short of their private finance and don't seem to have raised a penny in 8 months. There are possible legal enquiries hanging over the procurement as well as Osborne's decision to give £30m of public money without following due process.

There is also a likely Judicial Review from www.tcos.org.uk who have had far, far more individuals donating to stop the bridge than the few corporates who have donated to the GBT.

It is hugely unlikely that even if the GBT get through all these hurdles they can start on site until late this year at the soonest, and as they repeatedly admit they have a tight deadline to get it started, are already many months late on their project timeline, and as it is an experimental engineering project and one by Heatherwick who tends to go over-budget on publicly funded gigs, this doesn't bode well for the final budget.

I wonder who will pick up the overspend and budget shortfall? Not to mention the annual maintenance of £3.5m.

All this expense. All this damage to the urban fabric. Why? Because one person has doggedly persued her own little dream and used her long list of personal contacts to enable it. It's shocking for democracy and transparency, and sticks a finger up at people who spend their careers trying to improve cities and think about how places can work for communities.