Proposed changes to Hyde Southbank Homes’ Governing Body
The Hyde Group has written to Kennington Park Estate residents telling us they are going to change what was agreed when we voted to transfer to Hyde Southbank Homes in 2005 by removing the element of local control we have through the HSH Board. We oppose this. Why? We are being gobbled up! We voted to transfer to a small, Lambeth-based organisation with local management and local control, not a large corporation. The Hyde Group manages 49,000 properties (not just in London, but also across the South East, the East of England and the East Midlands), and wants to get bigger. HSH covers 3,200 properties at the Oval and Stockwell. We are the minnow being gobbled up by the whale. A more remote HSH Board with no HSH residents and no local councillors means no local voice, no local control, no local understanding, no local knowledge, and is very likely…
