St. Agnes Place - Putting Up A Resistance

[zenie]

Wtf???

This afternoon ex residents of the street now homeless have attended Lambeth housing unit to register as being homeless and asking to be accomodated. Some are now being searched by the police and anybody attempting to take photographs is being told to cease and desist.

Why would they do that?

Went past St Agnes yesterday - it looks fuckin awful

and those bloody floodlights that they keep on all night piss everyone off too- keeps you up all that light blaring in the window.

Oh and as a consolation there were still a load of crack dealers outside the entrance to the parklast night, but of course it was squatters that were the problem wasn't it?

 

[guinnessdrinker]

This afternoon ex residents of the street now homeless have attended Lambeth housing unit to register as being homeless and asking to be accomodated. Some are now being searched by the police and anybody attempting to take photographs is being told to cease and desist.

a good enough reason to take photographs and be a witness, preferably with some discreet support.

 

[Gramsci]

AFAIK sale of the vacant St Agnes Place site to a housing association has been planned since the licenses/leases expired to 1990. Lambeth Housing have been making housing offers to those St Agnes Place residents (families with kids, other vulnerable people) who would be eligible for rehousing for the best part of a year.

Indeed, have there been any such families living there for the last couple of months? Why else would the Standard have needed to photograph a non-resident woman and child next to the riot police.

Yes im not clear on this as well.The St Agnes saga has been going on for such a long time.The Council will rehouse ex short life people to clear a property.What i think may have happened at St Agnes is that once people had been rehoused the houses were resquatted.Also some long term residents were pursuing legal action as to whether they were tenants or had adverse possesion rights.

I would have thought St Agnes would have been a site that could have worked with an RSL to develop it as permanent housing retaining the long standing community.This has happened in some other parts of London.I dont now if this was tried or fell through for some reason.

In squatting/short life their are two strands the "reformist" who will do deals with the authorities and the "Anarchists" who demand housing for all and no evictions-housing rights based on "waiting lists" /"housing points" are not valid.

Im not clear in the case of St Agnes which strand is being persued.