February 20th 2024
Public meeting: Stop demolishing the Aylesbury 6 Feb 2018
Southwark Sleepout 15th April
9pm, Friday 15th April 2016
Outside Southwark Town Hall
160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH
More details here on the FB event. Please share and invite others.
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IT’S NOT TOO LATE
LET’S FIX OUR ESTATE!
AYLESBURY RESIDENTS
get together
on SATURDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2015
at PEMBROKE HOUSE, 80 TATUM STREET SE17 1QR
4-7PM
INFORMATION * PERSONAL EXPERIENCES * LEGAL EXPERTISE
DISCUSSION * FREE REFRESHMENTS * CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES
BUILDING ON OUR MEETING ON 22nd AUGUST,
IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT THIS TIME AND WANT TO BE INVOLVED
PLEASE CONTACT US:
Aylesbury Tenants and Leaseholders First
Fighting for the estate and the people who live here
Email us: aylesburytenant@yahoo.co.uk or call us: 07476532632
Sick of leaks and other problems not being fixed?
The council has a duty to provide you with a decent standard of accommodation, whether you’re a long-term, secure tenant or are being housed here temporarily.
Some blocks have had major works done recently (new roofs, rewiring etc) even though they’re all earmarked for demolition. Others have been neglected and run down in order to make those of us who still live in them miserable and desperate to move out.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
Come along and find out how what the law says, and how to make the council do the necessary repairs.
Where are we supposed to go?
We’re being told to use Homesearch, but find there’s very little available. We’re also going to hear from some people who have been decanted already, from Wolverton/ Bradenham/ the Heygate estate.
Find out more about the drawbacks of accepting a Housing Association place, or a private landlord, or a “shared ownership” arrangement, and how to refuse these options.
What’s happening when?
We’ve invited residents from the “First Development Site” to tell us what’s been happening to them (the security guards, fencing-in etc) and to explain more about the ongoing Public Enquiry.
This is a legal challenge to the council’s attempts to use “Compulsary Purchase Order” powers to buy the leaseholders’ flats from them, and is likely to delay any demolition from starting for at least another year.
It sounds as though Phase 2 will also be delayed, so those of us who don’t want to leave our homes have another year or two to get organised, and fight the council’s plans.
This meeting is a chance to meet your neighbours, from other blocks as well, and talk about what we can do.
Together we are stronger
– let’s fight for our estate!
Lobby Southwark Council: STOP DESTROYING COUNCIL HOMES!
Council Offices, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH
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4 day public inquiry (starting Tuesday 28.4.15) into the Compulsory Purchase Order and the Aylesbury redevelopment, open to the public and held at the Millwall Football Club Conference Centre from Tues 28th to Fri 1st (10am-5pm), adjourned and resuming on Tues May 12th, now adjourned again, to resume sometime in the Autumn. For an idea of the issues dealt with at the Inquiry, this copy of the Objectors’ Opening Submission sets out their arguments very clearly.
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The Aylesbury Occupiers were very busy: see their website for the archive of their many events, and watch out for more soon https://fightfortheaylesbury.wordpress.com/
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TWO important meetings on Tuesday 17.3.15
“The Future of Council Housing” – a hot topic, eh. Piers Corbyn has a resolution to share:-
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AND 
At the next Elephant Amenity Network Meeting
Here’s a good read about our march on the 14th
Tuesday 17th February:
Family-Friendly Gathering of Resistance at the Aylesbury Occupation
Film, Fun, Crêpes, and Comrades!
Come together – Yesterday the courts decided to make the occupiers homeless – so we’re uniting, defending against an imminent eviction.
Court Solidarity Demo
Monday 16th 9.30 am
https://fightfortheaylesbury.wordpress.com/
The address is:
Lambeth County Court
Cleaver Street
London SE11 4DZ
4pm – 6pm Sunday 15.2.15
Pembroke House, 80 Tatum St, SE17 1QR
Community-led radical participatory discussion hosted by Brick Lane Debates & Fight 4 Aylesbury.
Thousands on the March for Homes. Occupation of Aylesbury Estate.
Come & discuss what’s next with:
FOCUS E15
OUR WEST HENDON
AYLESBURY ESTATE OCCUPATION
LOVE ACTIVISTS
HACKNEY DIGS
UNITE COMMUNITY
GENERATION RENT
HOUSING ACTION SOUTHWARK & LAMBETH
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF SOUTHWARK
LEWISHAM HOMELESS PERSONS UNION
LAMBETH HOUSING ACTIVISTS
LISA MCKENZIE – author ‘Getting By – Estates, Class & Culture.’
SAMIR JERAJ – journalist and campaigner.
ALEX HILTON, Director, Generation Rent
Where are we going to live?
How can we build a mass radical movement for better housing?
** All welcome! Please note a crèche will be provided **
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Tuesday 10th February 2015
3pm Saturday 7th February 2015
Occupation of empty flats in Chartridge
Come and find out more!
Alvey T&RA Hall, ground floor of Thompson House, Beckway Street (off East Street), SE17 1TS
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Saturday January 31st 2015
A multitude assembled at City Hall
A BIG, BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO MADE IT TO THE MARCH!
An estimated 2000 made it.
Whether or not you braved the cold and the rain to march today –
this is so much easier – please do add your name and sign this!
http://marchforhomes.org/open-letter-of-support/
Come and join our feeder march,
setting out from the Aylesbury at 11am!
Meeting in the car-park outside Chiltern,
Portland Street, London SE17 2DB
(near the corner of Portland Street with Albany Road)
We are just a small part of this big event – see here for more details: http://marchforhomes.org/
The South London assembly time is 12 midday
at St Mary’s Churchyard, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6SQ
click here for map
March to City Hall by Tower Bridge click here for map
Invite others! For the Facebook event click here
Saturday 22nd November 2014 3pm
Meeting organised by Aylesbury Leaseholders Action Group
Creation Trust Blue Hut
Unit 8 Thurlow Street,
London, SE17 2UZ.
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Tuesday 18 November 2014
‘Stand up for council housing’
3pm. Lobby of Southwark Council Cabinet Meeting
to Discuss their Plans for the Delivery of 11,000 New Homes
160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH.
There will be 2 deputations to the cabinet meeting at 4pm, in the Ground Floor Meeting Rooms:
the leaseholders are sending a deputation to the Council (6 delegates) describing the
current impact of Southwark’s current plans (see supporting document)
And the SGTO are sending a delegation (6 delegates) to support their
‘Six Alternative Pledges’ – the main concern is that we want A NET
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF COUNCIL HOMES..
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Here’s a report back on this packed meeting about the future of the Aylesbury, hosted by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations (SGTO)
http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.co.uk/hold-news/news/3568-never-trust-a-politician-again
PUBLIC MEETING
3pm Saturday 25 October 2014
Can we stop the demolition of our council homes?
What should be the future of the Aylesbury?
Pembroke House
80 Tatum Street London SE17 1QR
All welcome.
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
Speaker from Southwark Notes, project partner of Staying Put, the Anti-gentrification Handbook for Council Estates in London
Jerry Flynn – 35% Campaign/Elephant Amenity Network
Laura Fudge – Aylesbury Council Tenant
Campaigner invited from Mayatts Field North TRA against PFI “regeneration”
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HERE’S A CHANCE TO LEARN SOME LESSONS FROM THE HEYGATE
(SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TO READ ON THIS TOPIC):
Saturday 19th July 2014
Regeneration Rip Off @ The Elephant
Walk, Sound, Films
ANTI-GENTRIFICATION WALK: 1PM AT 56A INFOSHOP,
56 CRAMPTON ST, WALWORTH SE17. LEAVES 1.30PM
‘ELEPHANT ENDANGERED’: RECORDED CONVERSATIONS AND SOUNDS,
AN 8-SPEAKER SOUND INSTALLATION
OUTSIDE 56A INFOSHOP,
FROM 4 -6PM
PUBLIC HOUSING UNDER THREAT FILMS:
56A INFOSHOP, FROM 7PM
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Saturday 12th July
Elephant Endangered
The 8 speaker sound installation
will be part of the child-friendly Fun Day at Pembroke House
80 Tatum Street, SE17 1QR
playing at various points between 12 noon – 3pm
LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE HEYGATE: The 2008 Southwark Plan states that 50% of all new homes in Southwark should be ‘affordable’ – and this WAS the first promise to Heygate residents of what the Heygate regeneration would deliver
AND the 2011 Elephant and Castle Opportunity Area Core Strategy said at least 35% of new units must be affordable
Now, with the latest Elephant and Castle planning application, the officer’s report argues that on-site social housing will bring down the value of the private homes and Lend Lease are only guaranteeing a minimum amount of 25% ‘affordable’ housing
and only 10% for social renting
In Phase One only 8 out of 235 new homes will be for Social Renting, that’s just 3%
Residents were promised the opportunity to move into 16 early housing sites away from the Heygate. Only 1 was ready before the 2009 deadline issued to tenants to move. By 2012 only another 6 were completed.
A few leaseholders stayed living on the estate until 2013. They prepared a strong legal challenge to get a fair price for their homes and Southwark took their time to issue Compulsory Purchase Orders against them,
and in 2013 this process involved a judicial review of the WHOLE Heygate scheme
What are the lessons for the Aylesbury?
1. Genuinely affordable housing (in particular, family housing) is being demolished.
2. Do not rely on Council and Developer paper promises.
3. It’s worth standing up for your rights.
for more info. about the campaign for GENUINELY affordable housing in and around Elephant and Castle see http://35percent.org/blog
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PAST EVENTS
Thursday 12th June 2014
from 18.30
Room 2.26, School of Geography,
Queen Mary University (Mile End Campus).
The launch of ‘Staying put: an anti-gentrification handbook’
If you would like to attend, please let the organisers know.
Staying put: an anti-gentrification handbook is a result of collaborative work between Just Space, Southwark Notes Archive Group, professor Loretta Lees and The London Tenants Federation, and is designed to help local communities faced with gentrification of their council estates.
The handbook explains what gentrification is, how communities can resist it and alternatives to demolition and displacement. It contains ideas, stories and resources gathered from the experiences of tenants, leaseholder and the wider community organising around the council estates in London (including the Aylesbury).
Saturday 7th June
15:00 – 17.30
Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street SE17 1QR
http://pembrokehouse.org.uk/about/find-us-contact-us/
On Saturday 7th June, People’s Republic of Southwark will host the screening and discussion about Concrete Heart Land, documentary film about the social cleansing of the Heygate.
Assembled from 12 years of archive materials the film charts the struggles of the local community. Some of the footage, such as excerpts from the Compulsory Purchase Order inquiry, have never been made public before.
As Aylesbury itself is part of the ‘regeneration programme’, the film and discussion will be a great opportunity to consider what has been done to Southwark residents on the former Heygate, share your own experiences and thoughts on whether the future of the Aylesbury can be different.
For more information about the film please go to http://concreteheartland.info/
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Saturday 24th November 2012 – click here
On Saturday 17th November 2012
Aylesbury Tenants and Leaseholders First
are teaming up with the good folk of Southwarknotes
(http://southwarknotes.wordpress.com)
and the People’s Republic of Southwark
(http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.co.uk)
to present a fact finding day about the ‘regeneration’ and gentrification of North Southwark and Elephant and Castle.
A One-day Convergence
SATURDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 11AM – 5PM
PEMBROKE HOUSE
80 TATUM STREET
LONDON SE17 1QR
Lunch and tea will be provided,
and there will be time for walking around the Heygate Estate and the Better Elephant permanent exhibition.
More info. about the 17th November here http://southwarknotes.wordpress.com/
Put on your walking shoes and come and meet us – Sunday April 29th 2012.
Details of how, where and when to meet are here at this link at Southwark Notes . Come along for the whole walk, or just for a part of it.
Thank you to all who came, and to all who helped organise this. Despite the rain 35 people turned up! And at 4.30 didn’t want to stop but were up for more. Watch this space!
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