Thursday sixth October 2016 was one other of these diversified days I really like. I started with a lunchtime protest in opposition to victimisation and nepotism by cleaners, then went for a stroll by Bow Creek earlier than lastly photographing a protest exterior RIBA the place the annual Stirling Prize presentation was happening.
Cleaners demand ‘Finish Nepotism’ – 155 Moorgate
The Impartial Employees Union CAIWU occupied the foyer of Mace’s headquarters constructing in Moorgate at lunchtime protesting noisily in opposition to cleansing contractor Dall Cleansing Providers. I met the cleaners and supporters exterior Moorgate station the place they received out posters and a banner earlier than marching quietly to pay an unannounced go to to Mace’s headquarters constructing the place they walked into the foyer and began making plenty of noise.
They known as for the reinstatement of two cleaners who they are saying have been dismissed illegally with out correct discover or different procedures being adopted. They are saying that the cleaners have been dismissed merely to present jobs to family members of a Dall Cleansing Providers supervisor.
After round quarter-hour a police officer arrived, nevertheless it was too noisy to listen to what he was saying and the protest continued. He stood just a little to the facet and known as for reinforcements, and as these arrived the protesters walked out to affix those that had stayed exterior and the protest continued on the pavement for an additional 20 minutes.
Police got here to inform the protesters they have been making plenty of noise, and have been instructed that was the thought – they got here right here to take action and disgrace Mace and Dall Cleansing Providers.
Ultimately one other officer who had been current at a number of earlier CAIWU protests arrived and was instructed they might quickly be stopping.
And after a pair extra minutes, Alberto ended the protest with the same old warning “We’ll be again – and that’s a truth”.
Extra at Cleaners demand ‘Finish Nepotism’.
Limehouse, Bow Creek & Silvertown, London
I had the afternoon to fill earlier than the following protest and it was a high quality day so I made a decision it was time to take one other journey to Bow Creek. I took the DLR from Financial institution to West India Dock to begin my stroll, and took the chance and a reasonably clear prepare window to take just a few footage on my approach there.
I walked over the Decrease Lea Crossing, which supplied a view of labor which was now quickly going forward on ‘Metropolis Island’, the place a loop in Bow Creek goes round what was beforehand the positioning of Pura Meals. This improvement had stalled with the monetary crash in 2008 however was now in full swing.
From there I walked on alongside the elevated Silvertown Means, giving views of the encompassing space, earlier than taking the DLR again to Canning City, once more profiting from a reasonably clear prepare window on the experience.
Somewhat to my shock, at Canning City I discovered that the exist to the riverside stroll was lastly open. I feel the stroll right here beside Bow Creek was constructed within the Nineties and I’d been ready for round 20 years for this exit from the station to open and provides entry to it. I didn’t have as a lot time left as I might have favored however did make just a few footage.
For years there have been plans to create a stroll from the trail beside the Lea Navigation at Bromley-by-Bow to the Thames at Trinity Buoy Wharf, and the part so far as Cody Dock had opened just a few years earlier – with the ridiculous identify of ‘The Fatwalk’. It hasn’t actually received any additional but, although no less than it has been renamed because the ‘Leaway’.
Extra footage – each panoramic and in any other case at Limehouse, Bow Creek & Silvertown.
ASH protest Stirling Prize – RIBA, Portland Place
Architects for Social Housing (ASH) led a protest exterior the Stirling Prize awards ceremony stating that one of many short-listed initiatives, Trafalgar Place, was constructed on the demolished Heygate Property, which was ‘stolen from the folks’ with tons of of social housing tenants and leaseholders being evicted and the positioning bought at one tenth of its worth to the builders.
Along with different housing protesters than held their very own awards ceremony on the pavement in entrance of the RIBA constructing, awarding the ‘O J Simpson Award for getting away with homicide’ to drMM Architects for this challenge, the primary part of Lendlease’s £1.5 billion Elephant & Fortress redevelopment. It will exchange 1214 social housing properties with few or no reasonably priced properties.
There have been no different contestants for the Ben Derbyshire Foot In Mouth Award than RIBA President Elect Ben Derbyshire however there was a vote to pick out which of 5 of his completely ridiculous statements by him about social housing needs to be the winner.
Amongst these on the protest have been residents opposing the demolition of the Aylesbury property, near the Heygate, the place Southwark Council are additionally demolishing social housing properties relatively than perform comparatively low price Aylesbury property,that was voted for by the residents and will proceed the helpful life of those properties for a few years.
Property demolition has an enormous social and environmental price and schemes like these within the borough of Southwark lead to big losses of social housing. However they supply costly properties usually bought largely to traders who won’t ever dwell in them and enormous income to the builders. Councils hope to share in these income, however on the Heygate made big losses, although some people concerned have gained extremely profitable jobs.
Extra at ASH protest Stirling Prize.
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