The campaign to save our local cinema is gathering momentum and Spitalfields Life has just posted the change.org petition.  I hope you might sign it.

The problem is that the cinema is the major local amenity.  It might not matter if it was being replaced by shops and restaurants and if one could be confident that there will be a cinema in the new development.  But the general feeling is that it will be without character, diminishing the neighbourhood:-

https://www.change.org/p/save-genesis-cinema