@justspace7

A network of local and London-wide metropolitan groups campaigning to improve public participation in planning. @JustSpaceLondon in FB & IG (dormant)

 London, England
justspace.org.uk
Joined February 2016
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Social housing requirements? Halved Access to daylight? Going Housing space standards? Going Biodiversity? Gone Green Belt? Gone Gardens? Gone Developer’s 20% profits protected? You betcha
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We Can Deliver Un-subsidised Mass Council Housing (we did so in the past, so we could do so again) stevenboxall.wordpress.com/2…

We Can Deliver Un-subsidised Mass Council Housing (we did so in the past, so we could do so again)

I’ve just heard this on one of the BBC’s so called ‘Flag Ship’ news and current affairs programmes: “The entire £39 billion 10 year Affordable Housing budget should be…

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Neoliberalism, trickle down economics, the Chicago school of economics call it what you will, it is no longer the high alter of intellectual thinking, it has been exposed as a fraud, possibly the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the British people. As my friend Stewart rather brilliantly explains. 👇👇👇Those about to rewrite monetary policy in this country would serve themselves well to study it carefully.
Stewart Wood
@StewartWoodJun 23
15 years ago I wrote "The God That Failed" for @NewStatesman, on the logic of neoliberalism, how it was behind many of the challenges Britain then faced after the 2008 Crash, & giving some pointers on how Labour should respond. I thought now would be a decent time to dig it out.
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@Homes4AllUK@homes4allukApr 26
🚩🚩SHAPE and Save OKR March down Old Kent Road for council housing and against overdevelopment. Around 200 people joined the demonstration to demand the Old Kent Road Area Action Plan delivers for the community, local traders and cultural spaces.
OKR demo at Faraday Monument

ALT OKR demo at Faraday Monument

OKR demo on Bricklayers Arms Flyover pic by Dave Gilchrist

ALT OKR demo on Bricklayers Arms Flyover pic by Dave Gilchrist

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Replying to @hecubian_devil
Want a Planet in future? Don't destroy greenfields&pump construction emissions for houses priced for top 2% incomes for emptybubbles. Want to house homeless,low income&young people? see @homes4allUk @shapecoalition1 @emptyhouses @justspace7 @35percent_EAN xitter.cf/stellastafford/status/…
Stella Stafford 🍃 💚 🍃🦇🦇🦎🦎🕷️🕷️🦭🦭 🐌@stellastaffordMar 22
Replying to @Liam_Holman99
1)IF trying to house lowest 20% of Incomes & homeless join this Demo on 18th April INSTEAD 2)IF Prop/Construct Ind for Torrent UP Profit then NB PROPERTY BUBBLE BURST due to HUMAN EMISSIONS ACCELERATING CLIMATE DISASTER=>property uninsurable/destroyed. Even Econ101 says STOP NOW
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An important development which can provide a focus for campaigners to press for the council house building/acquisitions programme needed to begin to resolve the housing crisis. england.shelter.org.uk/suppo…

Inquiry into the barriers to delivering council housing - Shelter England

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Council and Social Housing has launched an inquiry into the barriers to delivering council homes for social rent.

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Emma Fildes
@emmafildesMar 3
Serving notice on one income revenue in favour of a more lucrative “temporary” housing option. Asif Aziz’s may feel, it’s nothing personal, it’s just business but say that to those losing their home. Landlords all over the Capital are offloading in response to the Renters’ Rights bill. This bill was designed to safeguard tenants not make them homeless and paying more, which it inevitably will. @JoshGD @FT
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Fabulous piece 👏 Also the trashing of The Elephant & Castle market with traders treated appallingly by Delancey developers. Many cast to the winds. Others accepted places that they said at the time would be unviable and are! @LatinElephant doing amazing advocacy work still!!
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Common Wealth
@CmmonwealthMar 4
Andy Burnham’s “Manchesterism” rightly argues that the loss of public control of essential services worsens the cost of living crisis. This is the “Privatisation Premium”. Our new briefing explains this premium & how to fix it. 🧵 common-wealth.org/publicatio…

The Privatisation Premium and the Case for Public Provision

The privatisation premium — compulsory, elevated costs to consumers for essentials — worsens the affordability crisis. Public ownership is the best way to overcome the drivers of the privatisation...

common-wealth.org
Tom Scotson
@_tomscotsonMar 4
Andy Burnham takes the stage at the Centre for Cities in London He's here to discuss the political economy of 'Manchesterism' and devolution
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Lisa Mckenzie
@redrumlisaMar 3
Good thread about great swathes of the Country impoverished & hollowed out. We need a levelling up project to the same extent as the reunification of East & West Germany. The UK is that unequal. Labour should have come into office with a plan.
Capel Lofft
@CapelLofftMar 3
It still baffles me that Labour do not seem to understand what should be their central mission: vast swathes of provincial Britain, especially towns and small cities, are run down, economically hollowed out, and with a decayed social fabric. Sorting that should be a top priority
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As someone said to me recently, universities impoverish themselves and the towns and cities they're meant to be part of by attacking arts and humanities subjects @UCU @UniversitiesUK @timeshighered
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The current rate of inflation is about 3%. My rent has increased by 5.76% and my service charge by 8.98%. Talk to me again about how shared ownership is affordable housing. @mtpennycook @MayorofLondon @tomcopley
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This is what every council estate could look like if they hadn't been left to rot intentionally
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Social cleansing of areas doesnt just affect housing & shops, the displacement of people destroys the long term, lovingly built-up networks of political organising & many & varied cultures of struggle Don't see this talked about much. Why so many parts of London are boring now🤷
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Peter Bill@peterpropertyMar 4
FT (£) London landlord begins evictions ahead of new renters’ rights law: “Criterion Capital, founded by billionaire Asif Aziz, has served eviction notices to 130 residential units across its property portfolio.” ft.com/content/58e7e429-1581… via @ft

London landlord begins evictions ahead of new renters’ rights law

Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital owns several apartment blocks in capital as well as Trocadero centre in Piccadilly

ft.com
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Peoples Audit@PeoplesAuditMar 3
How it is that people with track record of failure get employed elsewhere? Sara Waller, who oversaw disastrous Homes for Lambeth, wasting millions and building very few homes, has been appointed CEO of Ebbsfleet DC and tasked with building a whole town: ebbsfleetgardencity.org.uk/2…
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Pete Elliott@pete556Mar 4
Temi delivering her speech challenging Lambeth labour to pause the move of the Central Hill day dementia services until many more assurances are given. It's been ill considered and will not deliver the savings expected, without causing damage to the most vulnerable in Lambeth. – at Lambeth, London
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JoshGD@JoshGDMar 4
Wrote about Criterion Capital's large-scale eviction of tenants, which some residents told me was being done to make way for the move-in of temporary accommodation residents. A sort of inverse-gentrification driven by 'guaranteed rent' in the TA sector. as.ft.com/r/5f0d091d-cb14-48…

London landlord begins evictions ahead of new renters’ rights law

Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital owns several apartment blocks in capital as well as Trocadero centre in Piccadilly

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Women from Afghanistan have been banned from education by Taliban for 4+ years. One beats every odd. Gets accepted to a UK university. Overcomes 1,000 obstacles. And then the UK denies her a visa. Deeply shameful, @ShabanaMahmood. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2j…

Mahmood to stop study visas from four countries due to 'abuse'

The government will end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, due to what she says is abuse.

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Wendy Blythe@greenarteriesMar 4
“Nature campaigners have said government policies to deregulate planning policy for homes & infrastructure could lead to an erosion in the amount of green space available, particularly for those in less well off, urban areas.” theguardian.com/environment/…

Analysis finds urban areas in England where no one lives within 15-minute walk of nature

Government says it is working to solve ‘postcode lottery’ of access to green or blue spaces

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Replying to @FreeLeasehlders @HarryScoffin @UKLabour @Law_Commission
4/3/26 Mortgage Strategy/Hamptons: Approx 40% of flats unmortgageable due to inflating service charges passing 1% of value (as values decline). England & Wales average service charge £2,405 pa in 2025, & growth is ahead of CPI. mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news/…

Up to 37% of flats 'unmortgageable' due to charges, MPs told

Up to 37% of flats could be unmortgageable, leasehold campaigners have warned, following recent figures from Hamptons showing the extent of service

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