Cressingham Gardens: Housing debate live blog
December 11th, 2014
UPDATE: Audio now available Housing Debate audio Right click and Save As to download file. I won’t be transcribing this debate.
If you see this and want to join us then head to Holy Trinity & St Matthias Church Tulse Hill (Herne Hill or Tulse Hill overground or Brixton tube then walk / bus) for 7.15pm
The panel for this evening’s debate is made up of the following. For their details click the photos.
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| Jon’ B | Michael E | Matt’ B | Dave H | Chris B | Marcia C | Paul W |
| Candidate | Academic | Councillor | Journalist | Developer | Councillor | Academic |
| Green | UCL | Labour | Guardian | Igloo | Labour | Birkbeck |
The Twitter hashtag is #HousingQT. To contact me this evening email debate@singleaspect.org.uk or Tweet @housingonfilm
Welfare Reform Act – from the Lords public gallery 2009
November 26th, 2014
This was written over five years ago by a lady visiting the House of Lords public gallery to witness the passage of the Welfare Reform Act. It tells you everything you need to know about the attitudes of both New Labour and the present Coalition with regard to welfare recipients. Despite the passage of time nothing would appear to have changed. The Compass link no longer works but I can assure you the text is genuine and unaltered. If you’re thinking of voting Labour next year that’s worth bearing in mind.
Labour, wake up, or you’re going to lose
November 8th, 2014
It’s not the messenger it’s the message. They are so lightweight they don’t stand a chance of gaining the support they so badly need.
Where is the fire to save the NHS, to bring the railways back into public ownership, the utilities, to fight the EU on competition rules and bring the Royal Mail back into public ownership? Where is the determination to borrow to build council houses, an investment that will pay for itself in employment and by creating an asset for future generations?
Where is the will to plan a realistic minimum wage and not £8ph by 2020?
They’re not losing support because Ed Miliband doesn’t look like a PM, they’re losing support because nobody who might once have voted for them has any conviction that they are willing to fight for Labour values any more. In fact I find myself wondering what they do stand for when all the things I would expect them to be campaigning for are watered down or missing.
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Clement Attlee came over worse than Ed Miliband on film but his party supported policies that have served us to this day in creating a just society, dismantled as they maybe as we speak. Described as “a modest little man with a lot to be modest about” by Churchill he nevertheless laid the foundations for a far more equal society than had existed before the war. It’s not about the leader it’s about the policies and the manifesto and as I write this today Labour are working to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Cressingham Gardens: Lambeth’s jewel in the crown
October 18th, 2014
Cressingham Gardens need to be repaired, restored and retained in my opinion for the following reasons.
It was designed and built at a time when housing ideals were at their highest and at a period still influenced by the aftermath of the Second World War when housing need was as great if not greater than now, when some of the best minds of a generation had come together in one place – at County Hall in London under the LCC then GLC and later, the boroughs – to work in the architects departments.
SHOUT – Social Housing Under Threat – 18th June 2014
June 19th, 2014
I was invited unexpectedly to the launch of a new social housing campaign group at Portcullis House last night and while I did not take notes or record the audio, here are a few photos and some brief notes from memory.
Anti-gentrification Handbook for Council Estates in London
June 2nd, 2014
Event link here -> Anti-gentrification handbook launch
Cressingham Gardens – a village within a city
May 5th, 2014
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The spire of Holy Trinity Church seen from Cressingham Gardens. Split level houses on Hardel Walk. Wild flowers growing adjacent to Brockwell Park on the site of The Big Dig, a London wide project for enthusiastic urban gardeners.
Where We Live Now – all five films
March 26th, 2014
City of Towers – Christopher Booker 1979 (fb Monday 19th Feb 1979) Download
Three Streets in the Country – Michael Frayn / Dennis Marks – 1979 (fb Tuesday 20th Feb 1979)
New Town Home Town – Colin Ward – 1979 (fb Wed 21st Feb 1979) via BBC
Architecture for Everyman – Patrick Nuttgens – 1979 (fb Thursday 22nd Feb 1979)
The Country and the City – Raymond Williams – 1979 (fb Friday 23rd Feb 1979)
Click film titles to watch / download.
Where We Live Now : City of Towers – a set back
February 17th, 2014
The story so far . . .
I’ve waited 35 years to see this again, in full, at original quality. If you’ve got a good copy please get in touch, you know where I am. Thank you.
BBC Post war architecture collection contains some wonderful stuff including one of the five Where We Live Now films.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01s0hpy/post-war-architecture