Housing For Want Not Greed: Principally my posts right here take a look at outdated work, both from a couple of years in the past or my work on London again within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s. However I’m nonetheless goining out at taking pctures if not fairly as typically as I as soon as did. So this publish is about one of many two occasions I photographed final weekend.
Final Saturday, eighth July 2023 was Nationwide Housing Motion Day, and a march from the Elephant to the Aylesbury Property was one in all 16 throughout the nation on Nationwide Housing Day. Others have been going down in Lambeth, Islington, Kensington, Cardiff, Glasgow, Abbey Wooden, Wandsworth, Harlow, Merton, Ealing, Cornwall, Folkestone, Devon, Birmingham, and Hastings.
The Southwark protest demanded Southwark Council cease demolishing council properties and refurbish and repopulate estates to deal with individuals and finish the large carbon footprint of demolish and rebuild. They demanded housing for needn’t company greed, refurbishment not demolition, filling of empty properties and an finish to the leasehold system.
Demolition and rebuilding of housing produces large quantities of CO2, and at any time when attainable must be prevented now we’re conscious of the true risks of world warming. As an alternative present buildings must be insulated, retrofitted and refurbished and correctly maintained.
Southwark Council’s estates have for properly over 20 years been intentionally run down and demonised with some being demolished and changed. Round 1000 council properties on the Aylesbury Property have already been demolished purchase round 1,700 are nonetheless occupied however at the moment scheduled for demolition.
These properties have been properly constructed for the time to greater requirements than their alternative and will simply and comparatively cheaply be introduced as much as trendy ranges of companies and insulation with a minimum of one other 50 years of life. The property was fastidiously designed with open areas, pure daylight and a variety of properties, many with some non-public outside house. The deliberate replacements are at greater density, much less spacious and unlikely to final as lengthy – and solely embrace a small proportion at social rents. Present tenants are safer and the properties are much more inexpensive.
A lot of these whose properties have already been demolished right here and on the neighbouring Heygate property have been pressured to maneuver exterior the realm, some removed from London as they’ll now not afford to reside right here.
Though the builders have profited tremendously from their work with Southwark Council right here and in different estates, and a few officers and councillors concerned have personally landed well-paying company jobs and loved lavish company hospitality, the schemes have largely been monetary disasters for the council and council tax payers.
Fight4Aylesbury was fashioned in 199 as Aylesbury Tenants and Residents First, and has been preventing Southwark Council’s plans to demolish the property since then. Whereas these schemes – a part of New Labour’s regeneration initiative – have all the time been harmful of native communities and disastrous for a lot of of these whose properties have been demolished, we now see that also they are environmentally unsupportable.
You’ll be able to watch a video on YouTube of Aysen Dennis, Fight4Aylesbury and Tanya Murat, Southwark Defend Council Housing speaking in regards to the protest, and FIght4Aylesbury not too long ago launched a publication, The Way forward for the Aylesbury with extra particulars on the property and their proposals. A couple of extra of my photos from the occasion are within the album Housing For Want Not Greed – Nationwide Motion Day, London, UK and can be found for editorial use on Alamy.
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