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erstand any of this in actual detail yet so we await further news and guarantees at the end of the day there should be no net loss in council housing on aylebury estate nor tenants displaced to other parts of the borough just so expensive homes can be built in walworth in the meantime tenants and leaseholders waiting to be decanted and bought out continue to live in increasingly shoddy conditions with heating and hot water services cutting out on a weekly basis and basic maintenance being neglected up the elephant campaign latin elephant and supporters mark the closure of the elephant shopping centre september 24th 2020 as we slowly write this we ve just seen the last day of the elephant castle shopping centre once again despite the promises of regeneration we wonder what s in it for local people when the centre is demolished and replaced by close to 1000 new homes and a new london college of communications campus we ve written extensively on the human cost of the closure of the centre on local people here and here although up the elephant campaign secured an increase from 33 to 116 social rented homes of the developers we wonder if these promises will ever come true we have so little trust in southwark holding developers to account or that the developers will actually build what they were given planning permission for these 116 social rent homes aren t on the cards until phase 2 of the plans so that s donkey s years ahead on the vital question of genuine affordable housing in the development plans and the relocation of traders from the centre to other sites north walworth councillors have been dreadful in the main after the planning permission was passed by southwark in july 2018 these councilors did send an open letter to sadiq khan criticising the delancey plan and asking him to insist on changes which can fix these significant moral and policy failings and to to pressure delancey in delivering a better deal nothing happened from khan of course we suggest it might have been better to send this letter to their own council leader peter john who had cheer led the whole scheme describing the measly 33 social rent homes plans as on balance good enough subsequently those same councillors dropped out of sight at up the elephant campaign meetings and became either well meaning but useless or just plain cavalier unreliable and pompous to its credit the council officers did step up to persistent trader and campaign demands and opened up a set of garages as the new elephant arcade below perronet house for displaced traders from the centre despite some ongoing tensions over rent levels lack of storage small units etc traders will have to see how it works out in october this year the council responded well to latin elephant and 35 campaign s call for new market pitches in the elephant for the displaced traders who delancey did not help get new sites good luck to all traders starting again in the elephant at perronet the sadly ill conceived castle sq pop up shops and any new market spaces but as was pointed out in july 2018 by no less than rebecca lury north walworth labour councillor and deputy leader of the council at that time as municipal socialists we are glad the council has come forward with a plan to support traders at perronet house but find little comfort in the use of public money to rectify the colossal failings of a massive private developer southwark stumped up 200 000 public money to aid trader s relocation again although this support is much welcomed and came mostly from pressure from the community campaigns these costs should all fall on delancey but then there was always something out of tune with peter john and delancey s love song duet again despite the serious and feisty up the elephant campaign piling the pressure on delancey the council preferred to capitulate to the developers instead of using that very public strength of the campaign as leverage to actually secure real benefits for their constituents strangely they probably actually believe in what they are doing ok you ve made it this far well done hold on to your hats as we are about to board the rollercoaster of reflection as we look back at some of what we think has made southwark so awful over the last ten years as local people working alongside the amazing groups like 35 campaign latin elephant and up the elephant we ve been digging in together to highlight again and again in detail how southwark operates highlighting how consultation of local people is entirely bogus and works to deflect from their social concerns or how seemingly participatory co design processes still offer only the illusion of being listened to a report by social life entitled understanding southwark daily life and the impact of covid 19 across the borough first phase of area based qualitative analysis key findings october 2020 interviewed numerous local walworth and elephant people and found that residents and traders reported low levels of voice and influence in local areas the reasons for this varied there is a widespread cynicism around consultation and the impact that local voices have on local decision making particularly among people with fewer resources in time and money and bame groups it was widely noted that opinions about new housing developments polarise feelings in all six areas we ve all been highlighting how developers use viability assessments to spin why they can only provide low levels of affordable housing in their schemes and despite southwark policies for 35 affordable housing for big developments the council relentlessly passes non compliant schemes we ve been banging our heads against a wall as southwark again and again allows planning permissions they have granted to be flouted and social rented homes built and offered as the more expensive affordable rent we been watching dozens of councillors and high ranking council officers leave the council to take up employment with developers or planning consultants we re seeing the council sell off asset after community asset land council homes town halls children s homes health and day centres government statistics show that southwark has sold off over a thousand council homes in the five years from 2010 to 2015 source 35 campaign interviewed in may 2010 just before taking power in southwark pj commented that the first thing we d do is not sell off our existing stock yet the council continues to auction off family sized homes year after year to this present day although this policy was introduced by the previous libdem tory regime in southwark the labour party in power reduced the previous over 400 000 value threshold for sale to over 300 000 value threshold for sale prize historical public assets like camberwell town hall were also sold off in december 2014 to an offshore based developer bermondsey town hall was sold off in december 2012 to developers and the make over of the fire damaged walworth town hall has been contracted out to private developers in 2019 despite two council consultations were local people clearly stated they wanted the council to keep the town hall as a real public asset summer 2018 southwark council agrees to sell off two plots of its own freehold land close to old kent rd for developments at the same time the council now complains about how land values are too high in the borough and prevents them from purchasing and re municipalising land along old kent rd for their new council home building programme leo pollak council cabinet member for housing writes in the midst of a land speculation frenzy a great south london land rush our job as builder and as planning authority in maintaining the link between real world housing needs and housing supply in our borough is made unnecessarily difficult an unregulated market for land creates a ratchet effect that treats planning permissions and site allocations like any other kind of tradeable commodity dissociated from the council s imperative of meeting local housing needs securing sums for social infrastructure and ensuring good growth this is literally the speculative development and land banking gold rush landscape southwark have been laying the ground of in the last ten years we find it hard to make sense of what southwark does in this respect right now southwark is busy buying up lots of parcels of over valued land along old kent rd and yet only two years ago it sold two large pieces of land it owned at mandela way and devonshire grove off old kent rd housing action southwark lambeth regular meeting on another tip of local people dogging the council s shonky decision making the excellent group housing action southwark and lambeth hasl have done dogged casework for people and securing them council housing against southwark who were consistently gate keeping applicants from applying hasl also do top work on tackling overcrowding temporary accommodation and southwark s terrible way of dealing with actual sentient living feeling humans being in distress southwark group of tenants organisations have been great at highlighting how current southwark plans to re jig democracy and accountability to tenants are likely to result in less structures to try and have a voice on and say in council plans this all adds up to what then that the council s ideological commitments to regeneration and rebalancing the social mix otherwise know as social cleansing or gentrification are what has made peter john s decade at southwark the most famous whether that s the terrible deal they made with lend lease for the heygate or the disgusting cheerleading and outright brown nosing of offshore based tax avoiding developer delancey for the elephant shopping centre scheme or the current disaster to be of the southwark fuelled gold rush for developers along the old kent rd this is all just more long term social cleansing in action we ve written about this a lot here oh and don t even mention the massive canada water regeneration plans at surrey quays but it s not just us banging on about this in 2016 southwark giving released a detailed report called a tale of two southwarks it was an independent research report into the needs of local communities in the borough of southwark from the title you can see that they were concerned about and highlighted the effects of so much private market housing in the borough they wrote the difference between affluent and deprived areas is becoming more prominent in southwark with areas on or near the river and in the south becoming increasingly unaffordable whilst the areas in the middle of the borough are becoming more deprived redevelopments and new businesses attract higher salary workers to some areas which lifts the local economy but leaves other areas stagnating while average earnings in southwark have risen with the influx of new industries this has not benefitted all workers nearly one third of households in southwark earn less than 60 of national median income after housing costs this is the fifth largest proportion of households in inner london boroughs 4 509 individuals received help from the southwark foodbank in 2013 14 roughly 1 6 of the borough s total population poverty is not the only decider of life chances and opportunities other issues can divide southwark s residents into two cities based on gender age ethnicity income housing health wellbeing education employment and membership of a minority group this mirrors everything all the local campaigns have been saying and actively fighting against for years that southwark s planning and development policies consistently favour large developers and large developments that lead to further poverty dispossession and displacement once again this is not rocket science the effects are very clear if you live on the poor side of things as most of us do you see the effects everyday land value and speculation how it works empty site blackfriars rd stamford st land securities bought most of the site in 2003 for 38 million israeli backed circleplane buy the site as 90 million in 2007 malaysian backed jersey registered company black pearl in 2014 for 114 million hero inc ltd staycity ltd and bsw land and property ltin 2019 for 235 million luxury politics with every luxury flat our face to face experiences of peter john are thankfully few and far between the ones we did have were indicative of the full range of his style and panache firstly when we organised a silent visual protest inside the council planning meeting that would pass the masterplan for the demolition of the heygate estate in january 15 th 2013 pj was outraged by the community members holding up critical posters close to the end he snatched a poster out of one of our hands and put it on the floor and got all grumpy faced pretty funny secondly we witnessed the literal duet he performed at the borough bankside and walworth community council meeting on 9 th january 2018 with investment director at delancey stafford lancaster both of them sang the praises of the delancey scheme to the high ceiling of st p e ters church stafford took on the verses whilst pj did the well worn choruses people don t like the fact that a private developer is involved or that private money is going to have to pay for the redevelopment of the centre and that they are a company with investors and shareholders and they allowed to make profit and that s their business that is the reality of their world and our world peter john croons what kind of fool am i to delancey s stafford lancaster 9th january 2018 at the borough bankside and walworth community council meeting but only a very chosen few get to join in the sing song what s obvious from the decade of peter john s reign is how he always maintained the luxury of not answering any awkward questions from people who desperately needed answers and input into things that affected their lives their survival meanwhile he was selling southwark cheap at a property trade fair in sunny cannes in 2013 and promising as many luxury flats that the borough could cram in different shades of luxury we suppose no doubt he was telling the story over canapés of how they had decanted all the tenants on the heygate to make way for such luxurious property development with cannes always on our mind there was always the amusing spectacle of his official gifts and hospitalities logged at southwark s website a 50 quid lunch here with chris horn six years as southwark council project director of the 2bn elephant castle regeneration before he launched his own affordable housing development company enter homes or a nice dinner there at pont de la tour with bell pottinger group this dinner was handy as the restaurant was 5 minutes away from pj s then swanky apartment in posh the circle development in shad thames it was to be one of nine such meals with bell pottinger or peter bingle or latterly terrapin communications who they you might ask only the uk s must dubious pr and comms firm who were caught in 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