SaveVauban

Vauban Estate SE16 residents fight for their rights.
Southwark Labour is neglecting our homes #saveVauban
Don't Block Us In with New Builds! #saveourspace

[SaveVauban @SaveVauban]

@SouthwarkLabour - still neglecting our homes, still ignoring our views.
@SouthwarkYFR @steviecryan @lb_southwark @Southwark_News @peckham_green @SayNoSlippers @BallcourtGarden @AmigoDodson @leaftoleaf

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

THREAD: This week we wrote to the council presenting letters of objection signed by over two thirds of households on our estate.

The council claim we're "increasingly positive" about the plan. That's news to us! 💪

Here are just some of our concerns...

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

1/ Safety: Southwark are planning to roll out rooftop build to around 28 estates without any example of a successful rooftop build in the borough on a council block of this age. The ARUP report said rooftop builds on pre 70s blocks can cause disproportionate collapse.

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

This is what that looks like 👇

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

Southwark says it’s safe. Where’s the evidence?

Certainly not their own attempts so far...

https://t.co/jDyu1p2E43

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

2/ Disruption. Antony & Roderick shows the reality of rooftop builds. Noise 6 days a week from 7.30am, leaks & builders drilling through their ceiling for months, years. We ask: would the people who champion rooftop building tolerate living under these conditions? 🤔

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

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[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

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[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

We know the answer.

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

3/ Wellbeing and mental health. The lockdown has proved the importance of green space to wellbeing, #mentalhealth and the #climateemergency which Southwark says it wants to address.

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

We ask: how does this square with selling land to developers, then cramming those lost socially rented homes into smaller and smaller spaces on existing estates giving residents lower and lower quality of life?

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

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https://t.co/0GCLPl3HUp

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

Answer: it doesn’t.

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

4/ Maintenance. The council have neglected residents’ simple requests for repairs for decades. We ask: why would we believe they’re capable of carrying out a complex and unpredictable build when they seem to struggle to unblock a drain? 🤔

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

Why should we have to endanger ourselves to get the simple, basic repairs we pay for? 👇

https://t.co/qvYO0vdva4

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

5/ Respect. First we were told of these life-changing proposals in the middle of a pandemic. Then we were told door-knocking was not possible due to Covid.

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

Then thanks to @HarrietHarman we discovered lots of our feedback, inc a major letter of objection from over 50 households on the estate last year - which the council replied to! - wasn’t even accurately recorded on the official briefing notes. 👀👇

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

We ask: is this fair, open and honest? 🤔

[Nunhead Estate TRA @NunheadTRA]

TLDR: The reality is these plans mean residents living in conditions that decision-makers – and the developers they sell public land to and allow to skip their affordable housing quotas – wouldn’t put up with in a million years. 🙃