benjybars
village elder.
hahhahahaa.
what a speng. and the writing in that article? fuck me. so depressing
The streets running parallel just south of Regents canal east from Kingsland Rd are like some ghost town or something. Just pure flats boarded up with the orange board of Hackney Homes. Some really nice solid brick 40s blocks too. All getting knocked down I think.
That Blaise Belville article is the most awful thing I've read for a while. Are 24 year olds really such cunts? I might use this in the classroom!
Haggerston land-grab business. Run the estate down, tell the residents that private money is needed to do it up. Sell a chunk off to pay for it.
new free independent newsletter the Hackney Heckler now launched!
http://www.hackneysolidarity.info/latest-news/hackney-heckler-has-been-launched
Hit me up for copies.
I've got a piece in there on songs about Hackney.
Haggerston land-grab business. Run the estate down, tell the residents that private money is needed to do it up. Sell a chunk off to pay for it.
Is it really that bad? Damn. Depressing.
It's fucked up - very hard to fight against because the residents just want to clear off out of it when it reaches a certain point of decay...
Is there a legal requirement for a proportion of these to be social housing?
Probably being stupid but I can't find this...."Plus a nice rundown of the top ten Hackney novels."