Community group. Yes to social housing. NO to @lb_southwark building on green space.
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SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
This👇 from our local MP presiding over more than 700 long-term empty council homes on the Aylesbury estate, with 1,300 more earmarked for demolition.
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
You knock down and sell off 4000+ council homes, preside over 1000+ empty ones and a 2500-home demolition pipeline. Then you go on TV complaining about a shortage of council housing! HYPOCRITE!
35percent.org/issues/
Our leader @kieronjwilliams was on BBC London Politics this weekend to talk about why London badly needs more council housing, and the funding challenges facing councils.
southwark.gov.uk/sites/defau…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Having taken @lb_southwark to the cleaners with the rest of the Heygate redevelopment, @Lendlease has now sold the final plot to a venture capital firm for £42m - slightly less than it paid @lb_southwark for the entire 23-acre estate!
btrnews.co.uk/hub-and-h-i-g-…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
This from the MP overseeing the needless demolition of 2,500 structurally-sound council homes in her own constituency - #AylesburyEstate👇
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Number of new council homes built by @lb_southwark in the last 10 years: 1,486.
Number of council homes demolished by @lb_southwark in the last 10 years: 4,382.
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Here’s hoping @RachelReevesMP lifts the stone to actually see how badly some of her LA colleagues have managed their HRA budgets and council homes - whilst cuts are part of the problem, their failed ideology must be put under the spotlight - toe-curling financial incompetence
Exclusive - a cross-party group of 20 councils have come together to warn the new Labour Government that their finances are on the edge of a “precipice” and ask for urgent changes to the way their housing accounts work @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/councils-wa…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Yet they have nearly 1,600 council homes say empty right now. Abhorrent.
Exclusive: ‘No homes’ to bid on in Southwark for ‘up to 2 months’ with hundreds vying for one property
southwarknews.co.uk/featured…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Listen to this Peckham voice ⬇️
Sign our petition and leave your comment ⬇️
Support our campaign for a development that's #RightForPeckham
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SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Building 90,000 #SocialHomes provides both immediate and long-term value for money for the government, the economy and the taxpayer 🏠
Over 30 years, these new homes will generate more than £30bn for the economy, including £12bn for the taxpayer.
👉 housing.org.uk/resources/the…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Southwark Labour council sold 25 acre Heygate Estate to developers for mere £35m
Private developers sold nearby 1.5 acres for £40m
Councillors & council officers who did that deal should be jailed! Instead, some now work for developers!
WATCH my expose
youtu.be/MCLaWC9xIpc
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
THESE HOMES ARE STILL EMPTY👇
Hi @JohnsonSitu do you know why 70 new homes on the former Crown St Depot site in Camberwell continue to stand empty and derelict 5 years after being built?
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Again here, re disastrous targeting of children's play/sports facilities, trees, breathable air, & green spaces for bad infill projects opposed by the communities they ruin. From demo to destitution, Feb 2024. Lab LA, Lab Mayor!? #BellsGardenEstate @lb_southwark
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SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Too depressing. Another day, another story about children's needs being side-lined - robbing them of vital opportunities to play, decimating communities and storing up problems for the future including poorer mental and physical health. #rightoplay
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SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
#MustRead A disaster that is emblematic of what a recent judge called 'incoherence' @lb_southwark, which 'illustrates a crisis in how social housing is funded as well as an urgent need for better laws to protect children’s play spaces.'
#BellsGardenEstate #ElimEstate #RightToPlay
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SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Ten Years ago @lb_southwark pledged to build 11,000 additional council homes.
Today it has 1,113 fewer council homes, as demolitions and sell-offs continue to outstrip new-builds. 35percent.org/new-council-ho…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
Whenever @SouthwarkLabour embark on yet another demolition/rebuild programme following the Heygate disaster they always imply we’ve learnt our lessons - reminds us a bit of Homer’s continued attempts at doing the same thing but thinking there’s going to be a different outcome 🙄
Cllr Dennis mentions why the new homes development on Bells Gardens has been halted but forgets to say that @lb_southwark has already demolished our community centre, green space, trees and play areas…
southwarknews.co.uk/area/pec…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
"Of council homes sold off under Right to Buy, 40 per cent have been rented out by private landlords, many to social tenants with landlords’ profits subsidised by the state. It has been a huge transfer of wealth from public to private — a levelling down."
The UK is dismantling its legacy of municipal splendour on.ft.com/4b6nDzE
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
I wrote a shortish piece on estate demolition. I look at the economics of demolition, managed decline, class dynamics, and dodgy ballots.
Give it a read if you get the chance 👇
medium.com/@DavidUW/estate-d…
SaveBellsGardens 🍃💚 🍃🏡 retweeted
This from the Councillor responsible for at least 600 long term empty homes on the Aylesbury estate..
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Proud that @lb_southwark is playing a leading role in delivering new council homes. But @MayorofLondon is right - the national figures are appalling and we need a step change ⬇️
