Too poor to play: children in Lambeth social housing blocked from communal playground

[BristolEcho]

This has made me feel really angry:

Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground

Lambeth council absolutely not interested and everyone seemingly passing on responsibility. I've not come across this before, but I hope that something will be done about the practice as no doubt it happens elsewhere.

I wasn't aware of the "poor doors" thing either.

 

[D'wards]

How can they stop them?

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I hope that something will be done about the practice...

I have a hammer and no previous convictions...

 

[rubbershoes]

How can they stop them?

I think the rented homes don't have physical access.

It's a fucking disgrace having segregated play

 

[MrSki]

This has made me feel really angry:

Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground

Lambeth council absolutely not interested and everyone seemingly passing on responsibility. I've not come across this before, but I hope that something will be done about the practice as no doubt it happens elsewhere.

I wasn't aware of the "poor doors" thing either.

I know Lambeth have gone down hill a lot in the last decade or two but this is well out of order.

 

[editor]

Lambeth are a disgrace, and developers continue to be as scummy as they ever were.

At least one multimillion-pound housing development in London is segregating the children of less well-off tenants from those of wealthier homebuyers by blocking them from some communal play areas.

Guardian Cities has discovered that developer Henley Homes has blocked social housing residents from using shared play spaces at its Baylis Old School complex on Lollard Street, south London. The development was required to include a mix of “affordable” and social rental units in order to gain planning permission.

Henley marketed the award-winning 149-home development, which was built in 2016 on the site of a former secondary school, as inclusive and family-friendly. It said the “common areas are there for the use of all the residents”.

But the designs were altered after planning permission was granted to block the social housing tenants from accessing the communal play areas.

Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground

 

[krtek a houby]

Fucking hell. Sounds like those gated communities they have in the US. Despicable.

 

[toblerone3]

Quite a good case for literally tearing the walls down. It has been done before. BBC - Oxford - History - The Cutteslowe Walls

 

[cupid_stunt]

“To see hedges where plans showed gates, to see a segregated small play area for the social housing residents, while their children directly overlook a much nicer play area is appalling.”

That's fucking cruel.

 

[Pickman's model]

You often hear how cruel children can be but some adults can be far crueller

 

[marty21]

I used to manage a HA block in Hackney , it was part of a bigger development . There was a playground in the private side which the HA residents didnt have access to. The kids had other ideas and would get in there and play

I had several phone conversations with an angry leaseholder in the private side who demanded that I stop kids playing in the playground I asked him why he wanted kids to stop playing in a playground he just got more so when I refused to do what he wanted

This was about 20 years ago .

 

[Poi E]

Apparently it's just a hedge blocking the way. Chainsaw=egality restored.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I saw this yesterday. Schurely the plans are still on Lambeth’s Planning portal website, along with a load of documentation that includes the names, email addresses etc of a load of planning officers and the companies involved. Also the names and contact details of the Councillors on the Planning Committee who voted the plans through. I wonder if they were aware of what the intention was?

You know what to do.....

 

[SpookyFrank]

I saw this yesterday. Schurely the plans are still on Lambeth’s Planning portal website, along with a load of documentation that includes the names, email addresses etc of a load of planning officers and the companies involved. Also the names and contact details of the Councillors on the Planning Committee who voted the plans through. I wonder if they were aware of what the intention was?

You know what to do.....

It says the changes were approved by Lambeth council, that means some named individual(s) will have signed off on them.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Yup
Search planning applications | Lambeth Council

 

[Leo Chesterton]

This segregation makes me feel sick. Worth sharing this petition Share petition · Lambeth Council: End the segregated playground at the Baylis Old School complex in Lambeth · Change.org

 

[Pickman's model]

already a thread Too poor to play

 

[Leo Chesterton]

Share petition · Lambeth Council: End the segregated playground at the Baylis Old School complex in Lambeth · Change.org

 

[likesfish]

Its just petty

 

[SpookyFrank]

That poor kids' play area is the saddest thing I've ever seen. How much money are these twats making from this project? Would it really have killed them to plant a tree or something?

 

[Badgers]

'Outrageous' and 'disgusting': segregated playground sparks fury

 

[mx wcfc]

Beyond belief. I thought you had a Labour council in Lambeth.

It is astonishing (well, actually, no it isn't, it happens everywhere) how easy it is for property developers to get projects through with bullshit and then not deliver,

 

[hash tag]

One really can't have the children of renters mixing with the children from well off owners, whatever may they pass on?
There are several threads devoted to poor doors Poor Doors - Round 2!

 

[editor]

*merged with existing thread

 

[spanglechick]

Apparently it's just a hedge blocking the way. Chainsaw=egality restored.

Kids don’t let hedges stop them.

 

[chemn]

I've facebooked the agent from Warwick Estates to say, basically: 'Shame on you for justifying this as fair and reasonable'.

 

[chemn]

I know it isn't just them but they were quoted in the article...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

CUNTS

 

[CH1]

The Metro have picked up on the story - which should generate even more outrage.
Poor children 'barred from play area' at new block of flats | Metro News

Does Councillor Jack think this is an outcome devoutly to be wished for his planning department trousering millions on behalf of the borough?

 

[Winot]

This story was features on The World at One (R4). Good to hear that parents on both sides of the 'divide' are getting together to try to fight this. Leaving aside the clear immorality, the developers seem to have also misjudged the commercial attraction of the barrier. Lambeth are going to look even worse than they do already once the developer issues the inevitable statement apologising and backing down.