This former industrial area in the heart of London was an incredible opportunity for a city facing a sever housing crisis. Yet from its inception, Conservative politicians have prioritised the private gain of developers over the public good.
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A site that would usually require 33-44% affordable housing was reduced to 15% in a bid to ‘attract investors’ and to facilitate the transfer of £266.4m in section 106 money - that would otherwise have been spent on affordable housing - going into the new Northern Line.
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But surely the new Northern Line is a good thing? Of course, but rather than using Community Infrastructure Levy, or God forbid some govt funding, the Council used Section 106 (a kind of local tax on developers) to fund it.
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Ostensibly then, this is a huge taxpayer subsidy to improve house prices in a luxury development to pay for a piece of infrastructure Wandsworth residents have no public ownership over at the cost of the desperately needed social housing that makes regenerating the area worth it!
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That’s why what’s happened here is so upsetting. We’re never again going to have all this abandoned industrial space which could’ve transformed the lives of people in a borough where thousands are statutorily homeless or spending half their income on private rent.
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There was once a world where you could build riverside council homes. If you look across the river from Battersea Power Station you’ll see the post-war Churchill Gardens Estate, a testament to an era in which council and key worker housing was prioritised and invested in.
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For more info you can read
@ollywainwright piece on Nine Elms here, which includes the voices of residents we’ve worked with.https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/02/penthouses-poor-doors-nine-elms-battersea-london-luxury-housing-development …Näytä tämä ketju
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River side developments are such an eyesore in London...
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You’re about a thousand years to late on this comment
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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