Gnomes for Lambeth

Solving Lambeth's housing crisis with a little help from our little friends and some humour!

[35% Campaign @35percent_EAN]

Dozens of replacement trees planted on Aylesbury estate redevelopment earlier this year are now dead after not being watered.

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

We've been quiet for a while, but we are looking forward to this event which will bring our community together - the exact opposite of what the wasteful #HomesforLambeth (RIP) achieved!

[Save Central Hill @savecentralhill]

Sat 8th July, 10.30 - 5pm https://t.co/XerLbMaUKT Join Gnomes of Lambeth roam from Central Hill via leafy Cressingham Gdns to S. Lambeth Estate in search of @lambeth_council & HfL's 100s of extra homes for the homeless. There's only boarded up, empty homes on demolition estates.

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@TrusloveHouse @brixtonbuzz This is so sad for us. We used to love Speedy Noodles in Brixton - now Foxtons. Foxtons represent so much of what we object to - although Savills are now the ultimate worst as Savills are who Homes for Lambeth finally got into bed with, to screw all of us.

[Laura Swaffield @lswaffield1]

Lambeth council claims 76% of people living at Central Hill estate are happy to have their homes demolished.
If this were proved via a simple ballot, Lambeth would get funding from GLA. Lambeth refuses. Why would that be???

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@lswaffield1 Gnomes are not driven by money - we see it causes too many problems - we do like to learn though so maybe we can help. We are also very pleased to see @HomesForLambeth have twitter now! Maybe now that BxB is moving on we can be the other cheek - in a positive way! 🎣😘

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@anthillsocial English Oaks are great, they can live for 500 years and they provide important links in the food chain for many animals. They also clean up London's polluted air. @LambethLabour and their treatment of the elderly is beyond gnome understanding! #ecocide #uklabour #mayoroflondon

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

Lambeth Council - quick, see what you can learn from this before it's too late.

@fenwick_place @savecentralhill @SaveCressingham @DenbyCourt

https://t.co/ibuwWsm403

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

RIP Brick by Brick

"Notably, the council-funded house-builders have delivered just three purpose-built council flats in their near-six-year existence."

Is that three more than Homes for Lambeth?

@PeoplesAudit @InsideCroydon

https://t.co/5btwTtefFE

[Infilling Harms Estates @CourtCampaign]

They say we're NIMBYs - like we're Lord Moneybags refusing to give up a sliver of our 1000 acre estate. But 33 of the 47 signers of the paper petition are council tenants (72 flat estate.) Please don't let them take our garden and tenants hall. https://t.co/W9lGoc2Q9o

[Peoples Audit @PeoplesAudit]

Merton's director of regeneration is Chris Lee, ex of Lambeth: https://t.co/n9Cr9M7xJY
Here's what happened when he was in charge: https://t.co/4PZ6MYu06i
Anyone see a pattern emerging? @InsideCroydon @pete556

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@brickbybrickldn @yourcroydon can someone post an image of how the property was supposed to look like, as it was presented to at consultation and planning committee? Can't say that us gnomes are impressed with the end result! Looks a little sad but maybe that is just the lighting :(

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@HomesForLambeth start making yourself accessible on this public forum. You surely have so much to be proud of! We are hearing that you have not been very accessible with your planning applications - this could be a way to reach out a little better!

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@EdDavie @HomesForLambeth @lambeth_council @LambethLabour @ManleyNanda @sg_donnelly @JackHopkins_Lab @CllrMattBennett It must be an absolute pleasure for anyone living in the area. Thank you Ed for supporting the local residents!

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@PeoplesAudit @georgenturner @GreenPartyScott Did it slip through the net or was it just not made easily accessible to Lambeth's gnomes and residents. We missed this too, but thanks to you, we now know how lucrative teaching can be if your face fits and you are a super head!

[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@anthillsocial @SaveCressingham We hear that @fenwick_place only managed 2 objections to the #homesforlambeth plans for the estate. Was this because the HfL plans were better there than everything else they have done or because they kept planning application quiet and didn't tell anyone!?

[Gemma @Grobins1]

Grenfell shows the shallowness of business ethics via @FT
Fantastic article. ⁦@EOCS_Official⁩ ⁦@mhclg⁩ . Why are leaseholders going bankrupt and those responsible report £6bn profits. Nothing but corruption https://t.co/F3v7bNC5Cd

[Laura Swaffield @lswaffield1]

Fighting Ropers Walk/Trinity Rise development proposals in Lambeth- you have until Sunday to object https://t.co/0q0mUNI5Un

[Peoples Audit @PeoplesAudit]

40 pages of objections and 3 sentences in support.
"nothing short of a joke"
"poorly advertised and circulated and it excludes a large group of people"
"I am left incredulous that you could even consider such a scheme"
"Leave Cressingham estate alone"

[Peoples Audit @PeoplesAudit]

Please submit your objections to #Lambeth's demolition of Cressingham Gardens. Handy pro-forma here: https://t.co/86i3tqZPJ2

You can see what the community thinks of it on the "statement of community involvement"(sic)
"I do not recognise this as a legitimate consultation"
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[Gnomes for Lambeth @GnomesFor]

@PeoplesAudit @anthillsocial @pete556 @GreenPartyScott @lswaffield1 @jon_bartley @save_nour @SaveCressingham @LUHousingCoop @DemolitionsLdn So what have they spent the £13.5m they have saved since 2017? More council housing? How many homes do you get for that sort of money in Lambeth? The gnome asked innocently.....