KNIGHTS WALK
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THE FACTS ABOUT THE PUBLIC
CONSULTATION
A STATEMENT BY KNIGHTS WALK RESIDENTS
On Thursday 26th
February, the Knights Walk Residents and neighbours attended a “consultation”
evening held by Lambeth, Soundings and Mae architects. In the interests of
accuracy, we have summarised the proceedings below:
·
The evening was extremely well attended by the
vast majority of Knights Walk Residents as well as residents of neighbouring
roads and estates including Ariel Court, Dryden Court, Vanbrugh Court and
Renfrew Road.
·
Also present for the whole evening were our MP
Kate Hoey, Kate MacKintosh (widow of the architect of Cotton Gardens Estate and
Knights Walk, George Finch and herself a former Lambeth architect) and a number
of other experts in the field of architecture and estate design.
·
Lambeth officials attempted unsuccessfully to
prevent entry of neighbouring estate residents and were reluctant to wait for
elderly Knights Walk residents to arrive.
·
The Knights Walk Residents state that the
consultation exercise so far is in breach of the fundamental rights for a fair
consultation as set out by the Supreme Court in 2014 [the ‘Gunning’ principles]
in all 4 principles. There has been no effective consultation
·
Soundings reported that Knights Walk Residents
are generally extremely satisfied with the estate with only minor criticisms.
·
Mae Architects on behalf of Lambeth presented 3
options for Knights Walk ‘regeneration’
a.
Option 1 – demolition of the whole of Knights
Walk
b.
Option 2 – demolition of the whole of Knights
Walk
c.
Option 3 – demolition of the whole of Knights
Walk
d.
They rejected and misrepresented an option
suggested by residents and ignored all their other suggestions
·
All the Options proposed by Lambeth and Mae
Architects were rejected outright by
all present as totally unacceptable including our MP Kate Hoey.
·
It was also revealed that there would be private
housing included in the redevelopment despite the stated aim of the project to
be to increase public housing.
·
It was admitted that residents would not receive
‘like for like’ housing when rehoused.
·
Knights
Walk residents fully accept the need for increased public housing on Knights
Walk and Cotton Gardens Estate, are fully willing to cooperate and have many
ideas of their own as to how this might be provided but will not accept the
planned complete destruction of their homes or this long established community.
YES IN OUR BACKYARD - BUT NOT ON
OUR HOMES!
If you support Knights Walk residents in our fight to save
our homes, contact us on:
3.3.2015
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