ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I just posted a reply to Pete's comments: http://www.brixtonblog.com/rushcroft-rd-squatters-receive-notice-to-quit/4958
I've now replied to "Ed's" reply to my reply on there.
I just posted a reply to Pete's comments: http://www.brixtonblog.com/rushcroft-rd-squatters-receive-notice-to-quit/4958
IIRC when squatting you are "technically" homeless, for housing list and other legal purposes
Remember the ALMO!
I've now replied to "Ed's" reply to my reply on there.
who is "Ed"? Its not the guy who runs BB with Zoe is it?
So the council are effectively asking people to put themselves in a position where they're homeless and not eligible for housing assistance, rather than wait to be evicted and have more chance of getting help? That's seriously immoral.Unfortunately, leaving a squat before you're evicted from it, "technically homeless" status notwithstanding, counts as "voluntary homelessness". and can be used as a reason to disqualify you from the local housing list and/or emergency housing.
So the council are effectively asking people to put themselves in a position where they're homeless and not eligible for housing assistance, rather than wait to be evicted and have more chance of getting help? That's seriously immoral.
I think some of those flats are owned too, old-time owner occupiers. Will they be CPOed?
Not as far as I'm aware from what I've heard on the grapevine. They'd just be doing work to the squatted flats rather than CPOing whole blocks.
God, poor them. The noise and dust will be awful. Plus all the usual security worries of main entrance doors being left open and workers with tools wandering in and out. Opportunist burglars paradise
So if they evict everyone without a tenancy, the council tenants (some of whom I understand are quite elderly) will be in empty blocks, without support of neighbours with the joy of looking forward to the relentless reverberation of refurbing. Or are they being moved out too, to make things easier for the council?
But there definitely are sitting tenants....
Is there ever anything else?More bullshit from Lambeth, then.
Well the one I know is [pretty tatty mould friendly dank flat, but I think the main reason is that they are now unfit to pass the regulatory minimum specs for accommodation which are in (or are coming into) force.Fuck that for a lark!
If that's the case, then the degeneration of the fabric of the building can't be anything like as bad as has been sometimes bandied about, though.
More bullshit from Lambeth, then.
Hi, I'm from the Lambeth Weekender local paper (but the U75 editor said I could post on here!). We're writing a feature about 'squatting - is it a blight on the community?' following the recent change in the law and are looking for someone to speak for squatting. Maybe someone from Rushcroft Rd or Clifton Mansions? Casaubon are you still around? We need to speak to you tomorrow as we press tomorrow night (June 8). Would just need 15 mins with you on the phone. Could you email me megan@myweekender.co.uk or call me or Martha on 0207 231 5258. Thank you!
He has made definite assurance in the Blog that these properties will not be sold off to private developers.
Although in my experience assurances by politicians, whether on paper or verbally, are worth their weight in shit.
In an ideal world every single one of these properties would be brought back into use as social housing and let to people on the waiting list. But, as everyone is well aware, Lambeth’s budget is under huge pressure – capital budgets in particular (at a time when schools, roads, and libraries are all currently in need of investment). The main problem is that the properties in question are in pretty poor condition – it will cost a significant amount of money to bring them back up to a standard at which the council can legally let them to tenants. Because there is so little capital available to do this there is a need to dispose of some of the properties so we have the money needed to refurbish the rest and bring back them back into use as council flats (off the top of my head I think 24 flats will be brought into use, but I might be wrong).
It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to be rightAnd lo and behold Mrs Magpie is right - Cllr Robbins confirms flats WILL be sold off.
Doesn't that contradict their own Cooperative Council approach?
Which makes no difference either. Tories, Labour, New Labour, SDP, Lib-Dems; they've all shat upon Lambeth from a great height.it makes no fucking difference, as long as the local electorate "buy" the excuse.
Which makes no difference either. Tories, Labour, New Labour, SDP, Lib-Dems; they've all shat upon Lambeth from a great height.