links for 2013-08-30
“Regeneration in London has become little more than the private sector building expensive properties. More and more housing is being built on and around council estates led by the government under the guise of the mixed communities policy.
The ‘regeneration’ of the Heygate and the Aylesbury estates in Elephant and Castle is displacing low and even middle income tenants in their thousands. The total cost of renovating the 1,200 homes on the Heygate estate would therefore be less than Southwark Council have already spent on emptying it.”
Loretta Lees, Professor at the Department of Geography at King’s College London, on the social cleansing taking place in SE1 and SE17.
Meanwhile…
Eyesore Erected on the Heygate
“Lend Lease has yet to receive advertising consent from the council to permit the installation of the banner.”
via @se1.
Sheep shearing, camel racing, Boris veg lookalikes, jerk chicken and old school roots - memories of an ACE Lambeth Country Show back in a balmy July.
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