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craner

Beast of Burden
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!
 

viktorvaughn

Well-known member
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.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
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.

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.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
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!

An article about him came up before on Dissensus, and someone (can't remember who) was saying he was actually quite a nice guy, contrary to initial impressions
 

routes

we can delay.ay.ay...
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.

yep. that's exactly what happened to that pocket of Clerkenwell just off St John Street.

amazing to think you walk 2 minutes from 'Haggerston' into 'De Beauvoir' and you may aswell be in Kent.
 

viktorvaughn

Well-known member
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...

So what's the deal? They are going to knock it all down and build new flats? Is there a legal requirement for a proportion of these to be social housing?

Terrible. Some of the red brick blocks are really nice - I live in one now. They are very solid and some of those Haggerston ones are really pretty with curved balconies etc. (Though obviously the social aspect is far worse, but thee is something wrong with knocking down decent architecture from a waste and also aesthetic point of view too I guess)
 

Pestario

tell your friends
Is there a legal requirement for a proportion of these to be social housing?

Developments of more than 10 residential units are generally required to have 50%of its units as "affordable" which includes social rented and intermediate housing schemes (shared ownership, part rent/part buy etc). The exact mixture is negotiated by a Council's housing and planning team.

The 50% is up for negotiation as well and depends on the particulars of the site and associated development costs.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
Issue 2 of the Hackney Heckler out now:

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http://www.hackneysolidarity.info/latest-news

All the news you won't see in council propaganda rags.

Plus a nice rundown of the top ten Hackney novels.

Available around and about the borough. Free.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
It's not online yet, should be some in cafe oto or pm me yr address And I'll send it. Or time for a beer?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Yeah, definitely time for a beer. I'll give you a shout when I get back to London (in Oxford for a couple of days at the mo).
 
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