Demonstrate to support our Community Centres
Category: Campaigns
Campaigning to keep our Community Centre
We are holding a Campaign meeting on 12 January at 7pm in the Community Centre to discuss planning the next stages of our Campaign. It is not just Kennington Park Estate’s Community Centre that is under threat. Hyde also want to get rid of the Stockwell Centre, handing its management over to a private group. We are campaigning with Stockwell tenants and residents.
OUR COMMUNITY CENTRE IS UNDER THREAT! SAVE OUR COMMUNITY CENTRE!
At the heart of Kennington Park Estate in Oval is our Community Centre which is well used and loved. Hyde Housing now plans to get rid of our Community Centre. In its place Hyde wants to build expensive flats for private sale. ***** UPDATE – Hyde has extended the deadline for its consultation on the future of our Community Centre. We now have until 5pm on Friday 6 January 2017 to tell them we oppose their plans to demolish our Centre. You can do so here https://www.hyde-housing.co.uk/tenants/resident-/community-centres-review/ And keep signing and sharing our petition here https://www.change.org/p/save-oval-s-kennington-park-community-centre ***** The TA has responded to Hyde’s Review of Community Centres, expressing our opposition to their plans for Kennington Park Community Centre. This is what we have said in our conclusion: “This is a manifestly flawed, fraudulent Consultation. We believe that the words “existing plan” are being used as a smokescreen for Hyde’s true intention…
Axe the Housing Act – opposition to it continues
The Housing and Planning Bill is now law. A campaign briefing on what the Act means for our communities can be found here and the presentation made to a meeting on Kennington Park Estate on 7 June by Ron Hollis, member of Lambeth Tenants Council can be found here
Axe the Housing Act!
Lambeth Housing Activists are holding a meeting in Kennington Park Community Centre at 7pm on 7 June to discuss what we can do next now the Housing & Planning Act is law. Everyone welcome!
Kill the Housing Bill emergency protest
Lots more information on the Housing Bill and why we oppose it can be found in a blog written by the Chair of the KPE Tenants Association, Joan Twelves – click here
Kill the Housing Bill!
Opposition to the Housing Bill is building. The Chair of KPETRA, Joan Twelves, has written a blog post about it, explaining the devastating effect it could have on residents of Kennington Park Estate. It can be found by clicking here or https://joantwelves.wordpress.com/2016/03/02/the-great-london-clearances/ More actions against the Bill are being planned and details will be posted here.
Kill the Housing Bill – national demo 13 March
Several Kennington Park Estate residents joined the local south London March against the Housing Bill yesterday. Opposition to the Bill is building. The next big event is on 13 March. More information about the Bill can be found here
Lambeth March Against the Housing Bill – 30 January
More on the Housing and Planning Bill
Kennington Park Estate TRA has joined with other TRAs in Stockwell to write to the Board of the Hyde Group calling on them not to implement the Pay to Stay proposals in the Bill. Our letter and the Hyde Group’s reply are here. Detailed briefings on the contents of the Bill by our Chair, Joan, and the ‘Kill the Housing Bill’ campaign can be found by clicking here and here.