Council tenant Pete Firmin explains the reality of a long-standing 'regeneration' scheme in South Kilburn I’m the chair of a Tenants and Residents Association in South Kilburn and a resident for 40 years’. I want to speak about the problems for residents - all residents - created by the regeneration of South Kilburn. The first … Continue reading Some home truths for Brent Council – the reality of ‘regeneration’
Category: Regeneration
Retrofitting at speed and scale
This is a speech by Georgina Schueller to a Housing Rebellion event on the South Lambeth estate. We can see the climate emergency is worsening, with more extreme global weather events. We must do everything in our power to try to conserve our environment, and our buildings, and stop the rapid depletion of our natural … Continue reading Retrofitting at speed and scale
Regeneration of new Kingshold estate
Pat Turnbull, a council tenant transferred to a housing association, explains the experience of regeneration of her estate in Hackney, and the problems it created.Our New Kingshold estate in Hackney was knocked down and rebuilt in the 1990s. The number of homes was reduced from 800 to 488. While we had been an estate entirely … Continue reading Regeneration of new Kingshold estate
Labour Campaign for Council Housing 