Southwark Housing, Bermondsey & Rembrandt: On Thursday October sixteenth 2014 I photographed a march from the Elephant to Southwark Council Workplaces over the borough’s housing scandals, took a while off in Bermondsey to take some panoramic pictures after which coated a protest on the Nationwide Gallery in opposition to sponsorship of artwork exhibitions by firms equivalent to Shell, G4S, BP and Serco.
Obligatory Buy Orders for Southwark Councillors
Housing campaigners from Southwark marched from the Elephant and Council to Southwark Council Workplaces to serve ‘Folks’s Obligatory Buy Orders‘ on the houses of the Council chief and different councillors who they are saying have accepted presents from builders to dump council estates at knockdown costs.
The shameful demolition of over 1200 houses in and near the well-designed and largely fashionable Heygate property has value the borough dearly, with the prices to the council of ‘decanting’ the residents exceeding the knock-down worth it charged the builders.
In fact the property residents suffered extra, dropping their houses and being compelled to maneuver additional out into the suburbs. Leaseholders had been solely provided roughly half the true market worth of property within the space.
The demolition and redevelopment has meant the lack of over a thousand social houses, and the brand new properties on the positioning had already been marketed to abroad consumers in Singapore and elsewhere as second houses, funding properties, houses for rich abroad college students learning right here, buy-to-let and so on. There are only a few so-called inexpensive items at 80% of market charges, nonetheless properly above what most Londoners can really afford.
The protesters met on the base of the Strata Tower, an unpleasant improvement of largely luxurious flats with three wind generators constructed into its roof for present – unable to provide electrical energy as when working they produce extreme vibration in flats on the prime of the constructing. Going through them ‘One The Elephant‘ was going up, a 44 storey block of luxurious flats with no social housing, and is being offered overseas, with ‘studio flats’ beginning at round £320,000 or 640,000 Singapore {dollars}.
Southwark campaigners had been joined by members of the Focus E15 ‘Housing for All marketing campaign’ and their first cease for a short protest was the Elephant Park Gross sales Workplace on the Walworth Rd. They then walked via a number of council estates to the north of the New Kent Street that are additionally engaging targets for builders who could make big earnings by demolishing them and constructing excessive worth flats at a lot increased densities.
They continued via different council estates within the space to London Bridge Station and on to the council workplaces in Tooley Avenue, the place they had been stopped by safety from coming into the Council workplaces. Police had been referred to as and after a lot argument two of the campaigners who had been Southwark residents had been allowed in and waited to current letters containing ‘Folks’s Obligatory Buy Orders’ for his or her houses to council chief Peter John and two different councillors.
They requested at reception to see the councillors and had been informed to sit and wait. They waited and waited. Finally somebody from the council got here to inform them that each one three named councillors had been unavailable however took their letters promising handy them over personally to them.
Extra at CPOs for Southwark Councillors.
Bermondsey Thames Panoramas – Metropolis Corridor to Angel Wharf
I had a while earlier than my subsequent protest and took a brief stroll by the River Thames,
starting in Potters Fields the place ‘One Tower Bridge’ was going up near Metropolis Corridor.
Previous Tower Bridge I took a brief stroll on the foreshore in entrance of Butler’s Wharf earlier than persevering with alongside Shad Thames and throughout the footbridge over St Saviour’s Creek.
I continued alongside the Thames Path previous the moorings, and obtained so far as Angel Wharf earlier than I realised I wanted to catch a bus to get me again to Trafalgar Sqaure in time for my subsequent occasion.
Extra footage Bermondsey Thames Panoramas
Artwork Not Oil Rembrandt Towards Shell – Nationwide Gallery
The Artwork Not Oil coalition had gate-crashed the press launch of the Nationwide Gallery’s Rembrandt exhibition to provide a short efficiency protesting in opposition to oil sponsorship of the humanities and privatisation of gallery staffing.
On the night of sixteenth October they met on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields earlier than marching the few yards to provide a repeat efficiency outdoors the gallery which was then holding a gala night for particular visitors and extremely ranked workers.
The Nationwide Gallery was planning to privatise as much as two thirds of the gallery workers and this exhibition was being guarded by a non-public safety agency somewhat than the gallery’s personal workers.
Artwork Not Oil held banners and placards and handed out flyers agains the sponsorship by Shell stating:
"The presence of unethical sponsors like Shell and the contracting of exterior safety corporations exhibits the rising affect the personal sector is having over our arts and tradition. With its meagre contribution to the gallery, Shell is shopping for social legitimacy for its dodgy deeds worldwide, together with:
- its failure to scrub up its a number of spills within the Niger Delta
- its reckless plans to drill within the Arctic for but extra oil
- its tar sands initiatives in Canada which might be undermining Indigenous individuals's rights"
They sang a lot of specifically written songs and carried out the quick playlet they’d beforehand given contained in the gallery through the press launch.
Extra at Artwork Not Oil Rembrandt Towards Shell.
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