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Developer's perspective & that of residents at odds |
A head of steam is building up o the South Kilburn Estate about what residents and tenants see as the 'social cleansing' involved in the Estate's regeneration.
The motion below was passed at a recent meeting of the Alpha, Gorefield and Canterbury Tenants' and Residents' Association.
We’ve had enough!
Motion to the AGM of Alpha, Gorefield
& Canterbury TRA
This meeting
notes that regeneration was sold to residents of South Kilburn on the basis
that it would provide improved housing and living conditions for all existing
residents.
In fact:
* There are fewer dwellings at social rent than there were before
regeneration;
* Some of the new flats are smaller than those they replaced;
* The new flats have been let at higher rents than was the
case.
Rather:
* Flats are being sold and rented at prices which existing South
Kilburn tenants have no chance of affording;
* Luxury flats are being advertised on the Far Eastern market,
clearly as an investment, rather than social housing;
* Locked gardens are being created, even though they replace what
was common green space.
This all amounts to a “social cleansing” of South Kilburn, with
many residents forced to move to other areas.