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Lambeth council targets yet another estate for “regeneration”,
Westbury Estate, SW8, is in danger!
Westbury has 242 homes on a well laid out and spacious estate with attractive grass and tree lined areas.
Lambeth Council do not seem to have any serious consideration for the current residents, regardless of the opposition to any redevelopment, the Council will bulldoze their way across the Westbury Estate to ruin lives.
The Council is proposing that up to 200units are added to the Estate, the disruptive building work could take up to five years to complete.
There are two Tower Blocks on the estate, both 204 feet high, 21 floors, 80 flats in each, total 160 homes, they will not be demolished. The main estate area is made up of maisonette blocks and single story flats a total of 82 homes. The Council plans to lever in up to 200 more units built in and around the current 82 homes causing devastation to the quality of life for the current residents. The complete demolition option of the 82 homes is also a strong scenario, how much worse can it get for the bullied residents!
Westbury is beloved by its residents because of its feeling of space and quiet, however, these wonderful qualities are obviously not allowed by Lambeth who consider the Westbury Estate ripe for plunder and caustic redevelopment.
Now the residents face the potential of overcrowding, reduced parking with local services unable to cope with the increase in people. Many residents in the estate have spent most of their lives there and have a strong sense of community. The phrase ‘A sense of community’ is often used by Lambeth Council in their literature when trying to qualify the redevelopment of Westbury and other estates. Ironically, the destruction of the Estates will divide communities, not enhance.
The Council commissioned a group called Social Life to gather information of resident’s thoughts on the redevelopment of the estate and Architects, Metropolitan Workshops, to prepare plans for the redevelopment. Some residents were advised in October last year of the redevelopment potential, some only heard in January this year. Over several recent meetings residents have met with the Council representatives together with Social Life & Metropolitan Workshop. However, each meeting raises more questions, most unanswered by Lambeth and leaves residents worried and confused.
Lambeth Council have shown a complete disrespect for the residents of Westbury Estate.
If the Council Officers are no longer trusted by their tenants and leaseholders, then the future of community cooperation will fail and send the Council Housing Estates back to the concrete jungles of the sixties. END.
Contact: [email protected]
Updates
April 17, 2015
been spending the last few days talking to neighbors about the council plans and its honestly exhausting to hear how many people are being kept in the dark. we are putting together a list of questions to send over to the council office because they cant just ignore us forever.
April 17, 2015
im honestly so blown away by how much this has grown in such a short time. its clear that so many people see exactly what is happening to our home and wont stand for it.
21 Comments
i am a local resident and I am completely against the destruction of the community i've been part for the past 20 years. Lambeth doesn't need to destroy existing communities to increase the number of affordable homes available. Poor planning and housing cabinet member's egos to make a mark and further their political careers is putting the lives of Lambeth social residents at risk.
After 26 years, and the home my children have grown up in. We are against what the council is trying to do. Make money for themselves, others lose out. This cannot happen without us fighting.
I am disgusted by the way Lambeth Council are trying to force us out of our homes. How dare they propse to change our tenancy from secyre to assured to ensure we lose our RTB. I completely support this petition and I will fight this all the way. I know who I will be voting for!
Lambeth is trying to rush this process. Residents are not being given enough information or time to make decisions before they are made for them.
"Regeneration" is a byword for demolition. Low rise housing provides an important breathing space for an otherwise overdeveloped, high rise area. Lambeth should be celebrating the diversity of its architecture, not demolishing it.
Lambeth's Estate demolition programme is heading for disaster.
Lambeth's policy on their housing estates is wholly irresponsible both as to their obligations to care for residents and as to the architectural heritage.
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Lambeth council targets yet another estate for “regeneration”,
Westbury Estate, SW8, is in danger!
Westbury has 242 homes on a well laid out and spacious estate with attractive grass and tree lined areas.
Lambeth Council do not seem to have any serious consideration for the current residents, regardless of the opposition to any redevelopment, the Council will bulldoze their way across the Westbury Estate to ruin lives.
The Council is proposing that up to 200units are added to the Estate, the disruptive building work could take up to five years to complete.
There are two Tower Blocks on the estate, both 204 feet high, 21 floors, 80 flats in each, total 160 homes, they will not be demolished. The main estate area is made up of maisonette blocks and single story flats a total of 82 homes. The Council plans to lever in up to 200 more units built in and around the current 82 homes causing devastation to the quality of life for the current residents. The complete demolition option of the 82 homes is also a strong scenario, how much worse can it get for the bullied residents!
Westbury is beloved by its residents because of its feeling of space and quiet, however, these wonderful qualities are obviously not allowed by Lambeth who consider the Westbury Estate ripe for plunder and caustic redevelopment.
Now the residents face the potential of overcrowding, reduced parking with local services unable to cope with the increase in people. Many residents in the estate have spent most of their lives there and have a strong sense of community. The phrase ‘A sense of community’ is often used by Lambeth Council in their literature when trying to qualify the redevelopment of Westbury and other estates. Ironically, the destruction of the Estates will divide communities, not enhance.
The Council commissioned a group called Social Life to gather information of resident’s thoughts on the redevelopment of the estate and Architects, Metropolitan Workshops, to prepare plans for the redevelopment. Some residents were advised in October last year of the redevelopment potential, some only heard in January this year. Over several recent meetings residents have met with the Council representatives together with Social Life & Metropolitan Workshop. However, each meeting raises more questions, most unanswered by Lambeth and leaves residents worried and confused.
Lambeth Council have shown a complete disrespect for the residents of Westbury Estate.
If the Council Officers are no longer trusted by their tenants and leaseholders, then the future of community cooperation will fail and send the Council Housing Estates back to the concrete jungles of the sixties. END.
Contact: [email protected]
Updates
April 17, 2015
been spending the last few days talking to neighbors about the council plans and its honestly exhausting to hear how many people are being kept in the dark. we are putting together a list of questions to send over to the council office because they cant just ignore us forever.
April 17, 2015
im honestly so blown away by how much this has grown in such a short time. its clear that so many people see exactly what is happening to our home and wont stand for it.
21 Comments
the 'regeneration' of our estate is not beneficial for the locals, as someone who has lived on the estate for over 20 years, i find it terrible that Lambeth Council are willing to destroy the houses of many residents and create an overcrowded and probably unaffordable housing that many locals will not be able to appreciate nor inhabit in. Lambeth need to listen to the opinions of its residents and not go ahead with this destruction of a well loved and historical estate.
i am a local resident and I am completely against the destruction of the community i've been part for the past 20 years. Lambeth doesn't need to destroy existing communities to increase the number of affordable homes available. Poor planning and housing cabinet member's egos to make a mark and further their political careers is putting the lives of Lambeth social residents at risk.
After 26 years, and the home my children have grown up in. We are against what the council is trying to do. Make money for themselves, others lose out. This cannot happen without us fighting.
I am disgusted by the way Lambeth Council are trying to force us out of our homes. How dare they propse to change our tenancy from secyre to assured to ensure we lose our RTB. I completely support this petition and I will fight this all the way. I know who I will be voting for!
Lambeth is trying to rush this process. Residents are not being given enough information or time to make decisions before they are made for them.
"Regeneration" is a byword for demolition. Low rise housing provides an important breathing space for an otherwise overdeveloped, high rise area. Lambeth should be celebrating the diversity of its architecture, not demolishing it.
Lambeth's Estate demolition programme is heading for disaster.
Lambeth's policy on their housing estates is wholly irresponsible both as to their obligations to care for residents and as to the architectural heritage.
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the 'regeneration' of our estate is not beneficial for the locals, as someone who has lived on the estate for over 20 years, i find it terrible that Lambeth Council are willing to destroy the houses of many residents and create an overcrowded and probably unaffordable housing that many locals will not be able to appreciate nor inhabit in. Lambeth need to listen to the opinions of its residents and not go ahead with this destruction of a well loved and historical estate.