links for 2013-10-29
Will the last people to leave The Heygate please turn out the light, etc.
A sad day in SE17 as the social cleansing of The Heygate by @lb_southwark is complete. The final family has lost the right to remain on the prime central London estate, just as the security is beefed up ahead of the wall of steel appearing and eventual demolition.
Pity the poor couple filmed above, resigned to a relocation out towards Zone 6. It’s the Doughnut Reverse Ferret of the affluent outer ring that delivered Boris home, just under eighteen months ago.
Capital is shifting influence back towards central London.
Oh to have the choice.
FoI figures show that only one in five original tenants have been rehoused within SE17. The Heygate Displacement Map highlights perfectly the exodus of residents away from their homes and out towards the badlands of Zone 6.
Jam tomorrow?
Probably not in Orpington, Comrades.
Only 79 of the 2,535 new ‘homes’ being built by Lend Lease will be socially rented units. £310,000 is the starting price for a one bed, according to the marketing bumph that has been published for overseas investors.
Meanwhile and the figure of £44m spunked away by @lb_southwark to clear the estate, balanced with the £50m sale of the land to Lend Lease, leaves you wondering what the chuffers the whole social cleansing has really been about.
via @heygateplaza.
“Protesters have taken over a London home billed as the “most expensive council house ever sold” which on Monday raised almost £3m for Southwark Council after fierce bidding at an auction.”
ARF at the irony of The Graun auto-embedding a Top Mortgage finder tool midway in the copy.
“The quality of the substitution didn’t justify the decision to demolish.”
One hour, five mins in for a Back to the Future approach to housing from Maxwell Hutchinson with @RobertElms.
Will the Nu Heygate etc be any better?
And better for who?
People in glass houses, blah blah blah.
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