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Housing and Planning Invoice March – 2016


Housing and Planning Invoice March: On Saturday thirtieth January 2016 housing activists together with some native councillors and housing activist teams primarily from South London together with Class Battle marched from the Imperial Battle Museum to Downing St in a protest organised by Lambeth Housing Activists towards the Housing and Planning Invoice.

They are saying the invoice can have a very massive affect in London and tremendously worsen the already acute housing disaster right here.

Housing and Planning Bill March - 2016

Speeches on the rally earlier than the march in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park together with the Imperial Battle Museum by Inexperienced Get together Chief Natalie Bennett and an variety of housing activists together with Simon Elmer of Architects for Social Housing have been warmly applauded.

Housing and Planning Bill March - 2016

However there was one exception; when Southwark Council Cupboard Member for Housing Richard Livingstone the ambiance modified, with boos and loud heckling from a number of folks within the crowd together with Elmer.

Housing and Planning Bill March - 2016
Simon Elmer shouts as Richard Livingstone speaks

The arguments continued within the crowd after Livingstone had left the platform with Elmer declaring the scandal over the demolition of the Heygate Property and now the Aylesbury property, the place hundreds of council properties have been demolished and few of the guarantees made by Southwark Council have been saved.

Housing and Planning Bill March - 2016

Financially and morally Heygate was a scandal, with the council making derisory gives of compensation to leaseholders, far lower than the worth of comparable properties within the space and an enormous lack of social housing, whereas eliminating an enormous public asset at a fraction of its true worth. And because it was one thing the council appeared decided to repeat, and it’s not shocking that emotions ran excessive.

Somewhat to the shock of many the march set off strolling in the wrong way to its ultimate vacation spot of Downing Avenue, and it quickly turned clear that we have been on a tour of Lambeth quite than taking a direct route.

“Class Battle determined to liven issues up somewhat, first by dancing alongside the road singing the ‘Lambeth Stroll’ after which by speeding throughout the pavement in direction of a big property company.

Police shaped a line to cease them coming into they usually stood outdoors for some minutes with their banners – the sphere of crosses with the message ‘We have now discovered new properties of for the wealthy’ and the Lucy Parsons banner with its citation “We should devastate the avenues the place the rich dwell” earlier than rejoining the march.”

For a lot of the march Lisa Mackenzie who had stood at Class Battle’s candidate within the 2015 Basic Election towards Iain Duncan Smith in Chingford stood in entrance of the banners waving a plastic trident with a small banner ‘This Invoice is the top of Council Housing’ with its second message a picture of David Cameron and the choice textual content ‘Bell Finish’. At occasions she donned a face masks of Smith.

Ultimately the march reached Downing Avenue the place police tried to direct them to the other facet of Whitehall, however the marchers walked previous them and crossed again to protest outdoors the gates, blocking visitors on Whitehall.

Right here there have been a number of teams listening to audio system and a samba band taking part in. Ultimately police persuaded most of them to depart the street and I left for house.

Extra footage at Housing and Planning Invoice March.


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