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Archive: Lina Usma

Elephant & Castle: Latin American community still not getting proper answers

Posted on News and Views by Walworth Green Party · April 11, 2018 2:53 PM

Following ongoing community pressure, the planning application to demolish Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre and London College of Communication will now not be reconsidered by councillors until after the local election on 3rd May.

Southwark Labour pushed through the previous controversial demolition of the Heygate Estate two months after winning a council election.

Latin American community newspaper editor Lina Usma said:

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Walworth Town Hall is being stealthily sold off by Southwark Labour

Posted on Local news by Walworth Green Party · April 11, 2018 2:42 PM

Peter and Lina: Standing up for restoration of Newington LibraryHistoric Walworth Town Hall, and Newington Library next door which houses the Cuming Museum, suffered significant damage in a fire in 2013. In 2015 plans were drawn up for redevelopment of the buildings, but Southwark Council has now paused these plans. They were costed at around £40 million, almost twice the original budget. Evidently there was no adequate fire insurance policy despite both these Edwardian buildings being Grade 2 listed.

Labour-run Southwark Council has published a glossy website walworthtownhall.com proclaiming an “opportunity” for “investors, developers, businesses, organisations or other consortia” to express interest in “play[ing] their part in reviving this historic gem”. The council proclaims willingness to consider “ancillary and complementary commercial uses” alongside arts and culture uses retaining “some genuine public access to... parts of the site”.

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Video por Lina Usma

Posted on En español by Walworth Green Party · April 07, 2018 4:36 PM

Candidata por el Partido Verde (Green Party) en el area de North Walworth.

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