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Archive: Heygate Estate

Guest speaker Anna Minton on the Southwark demolitions and London's housing crisis

Posted on News and Views by Tracey Beresford · November 12, 2017 6:56 PM

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Why are council estates in London being demolished at a time of housing crisis, replaced by luxury flats that most Londoners cannot afford to live in? This question is central to the work of writer Anna Minton.

Anna, whom we were delighted to welcome as guest speaker at our AGM on 9 November, is reader in architecture at the University of East London and the author of the acclaimed study Big Capital: Who Is London For?, published this year by Penguin. Speaking to an audience of Green Party members and supporters at Camberwell Library, Anna gave a powerful presentation, looking at the impact of the huge sums of money from overseas that have washed up in our city since the financial crisis. For these foreign investors, property is the commodity asset of choice, and London is, in effect, their tax haven.

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Our homes are not investment opportunities

Posted on News and Views by John Tyson · May 10, 2017 9:23 AM

John_Tyson_campaigning_for_fair_housing.jpgJohn Tyson, the Green Party candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, says: "The demolition of the Heygate Estate is the worst example of a council pushing out tenants and destroying communities, allowing absentee investors to benefit at the
expense of renters. We need better housing solutions."

The Green Party would:
• abolish the cruel Bedroom Tax,
• set up a Renters Union,
• refurbish, insulate and improve homes instead of demolishing,
• work with communities to find solutions that work for them.

Sadiq Khan: get real about making regeneration more accountable to communities

Posted on News and Views by David Jennings · March 14, 2017 8:09 PM

photo.jpgWhen Sadiq Khan launched his Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration in December, the mayor proclaimed he was putting Londoners first. Sadly the Guide fails to live up to this promise. In its response to the consultation, Southwark Green Party sides with London Assembly member Siân Berry (pictured right, with members of Southwark Green Party), who described the Guide as 'useless'.

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‘Trafalgar Place exemplifies a dash to socially cleanse valuable land in London’

Posted on News and Views by Guy Mannes-Abbott · October 05, 2016 3:46 PM · 1 reaction

3041120_Trafalgar-Place---Elephant-and-Castle_PressImage_Thomas-_Etchells_5.jpgWriter and North Walworth resident Guy Mannes Abbott writes in The Architecture Review...

Typically, the RIBA’s Stirling Prize shortlist leavens starry spectacles with a socially minded gesture or two. In a thin year for the former, the list still obliged with the flawed spectacularity of Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. In contrast, the ‘housing crisis’ generated a lot of noise but few homes again, so a ‘flagship’ housing scheme designed by dRMM for the Elephant and Castle’s ‘regeneration’ ticked a misleading box.

[Read full article on The Architecture Review website...]

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