Vauban Estate SE16 residents fight for their rights. Southwark Labour is neglecting our homes #saveVauban Don't Block Us In with New Builds! #saveourspace
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@SouthwarkLabour - still neglecting our homes, still ignoring our views.
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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...
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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.
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Southwark says it’s safe. Where’s the evidence?
Certainly not their own attempts so far...
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Are rooftop builds safe? Residents were promised the build in Chilton Grove would be complete by winter 2020. 3 years later, the roof isn’t even on because of concerns the existing apartment blocks will buckle under the weight of the extra floors 👀
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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? 🤔
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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.
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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?
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Southwark sold off over 1000 socially-rented flats on the Heygate estate as part of a "regeneration". They were replaced with a private development containing… around 100 🙃
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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? 🤔
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Why should we have to endanger ourselves to get the simple, basic repairs we pay for? 👇
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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.
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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. 👀👇
