If you’re planning to vote Tory first read this
March 31st, 2015
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A new report by Professor Anne Power of the LSE reviewed here by Aditya Chakrabortty
Regeneration Game – Vice – Part One
March 31st, 2015
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In part one of Regeneration Game, host Daisy-May Hudson visits the Carpenters Estate in Newham, the borough with the biggest homelessness crisis in London. With Westfield shopping centre, the Olympic site and excellent transport links surrounding the area, the land on which people’s homes stand has rocketed in value. The council has said the Carpenters Estate is no longer “viable” and has been slowly trying to relocate residents over the last eight years – but a group of local mums are leading the fight back.
Tweet of the day – Keep public land, public!
March 31st, 2015
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Michael, why aren’t you Mayor? You’d make a better one than Boris.
If I could take everybody in London under 30 back to the 1970s for a day and show them the council housing we had then, and point out that they themselves could have applied for a flat and got one in under a year in most cases, they’d be in heaven. What have we lost under the Tories and New Labour???
Boundary Estate shadow threat from new towers
March 29th, 2015
New towers on the edge of the City of London are set to put one of the country’s oldest social housing projects in the shade . . . https://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/CIBSE/201504/general-news/
City Villages – Adonis & others
March 25th, 2015
Carpenters Estate – @FocusE15
March 19th, 2015
Fighting the System – BBC3
I’ve still got some clips from this, drop me a line sometime and I’ll put them on Youtube.
Documentary about four extreme protesters who are using direct action, risking their safety, their freedom and their futures, to force their way to change.
This used to be an article about Carpenters but the BBC have withdrawn the film and it’s not on Youtube so this is just a marker point now that the film was ever made.
I’ve got the film or part of it on a DVD somewhere, it’s a question of digging it out and uploading it.
Ken Loach in the Guardian
March 18th, 2015
Lambeth MIPIM display board
March 17th, 2015
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Source: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/display_panel_at_mipim_property