Community spaces threatened as public land grabs poised for next phase

[Ram Selva]

Three campaigns in London noted recently where the underlying issue of 
stock transfer of very valuable public land to Housing Associations now 
turn to attack on freely operating public spaces - not just Open Spaces 
but now even heavily used  Community Centres.


Does anyone have a list of alternative media contact lists where events 
resisting these travesties of the commons (?) can be advertised to draw 
in effective support?




<http://www.savethestockwellcentre.com/>


"Hyde Housing Association is planning to get rid of its Community 
Centres in Lambeth and the rest of London. It wants to lease Stockwell 
Community Centre to a private group and flatten the Centre on Kennington 
Park Estate. There, they want to build luxury flats for sale, with no 
social housing [...]"


-- Lambeth to Hyde Housing stok transfer is more than a decade old (I 
think)


-- there is a demo-march at 2pm on Sat 21st January from Stockwell 
Memorial Gardens [just outside Stockwell Underground Station]




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<https://southwarknotes.wordpress.com/tag/thurlow-lodge/>


"Save Divine Rescue and Thurlow Lodge Community Hall
Support the occupation of Thurlow Lodge!"


-- the Housing Association facilitating the very recent Aylesbury Estate 
regeneration, apparently what is Europe's biggest public land transfer, 
is Notting Hill.


...


The underlying issue (and hope) for campaigners must be conditions 
imposed at point of land transfer that address community spaces. The 
Housing and Planning Act 2016 and it's current implementation are 
unclear.


Anyone familiar with London Land Commission and any recent movement with 
re-defined brown-field register?


- Ram