Haringey’s council housing estates are up for sale at Cannes, in the South of France, today. Haringey Council recently decided to consult council tenants in 2014, about the future of all of its large estates in Tottenham. Activists say that the plans will mean the demolition of thousands of homes, to make way for the lucrative private developments being fixed in France this week. 20,000 people are attending the MIPIM international real estate marketplace at Cannes this week, including 4,300 investors and 3,000 Chief Executives and Chairmen, with 2,000 exhibiting companies from 80 countries. Cllr Alan Strickland, Haringey’s Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration, was a panel speaker on ‘Transforming Tottenham’ at MIPIM yesterday: londonatmipim/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/07.03.14-MIPIM-Programme.pdf This afternoon, Haringey’s Chief Executive Nick Walkley will attend a working lunch on the Arup placemaking consultancy’s ‘Clara One’ yacht at Cannes. The yacht is located at the Albert Edouard Jetty, one of the most sought-after spots at the Palais des Festivals. The yacht is a “focal point for networking and meeting new people”. But not for you and me: sadly, this will be a private lunch, and a closed event. arup/News/Events_and_exhibitions/MIPIM_2014.aspx Haringey Council tenant Paul Burnham says, “It is so cynical to sell off our estates at Cannes like this. And it is both sad and wrong to read Haringey documents constantly implying that council housing causes unemployment or lower life expectancy. Instead, we value our secure council tenancies, and we enjoy the lowest rents in the housing market. We should stop these demolitions, and we should build more and better council housing”. For those developers unable to join the jet set, there will be more chances to bid for Haringey’s housing assets, at Sitematch London on 2nd April. Michael Kelleher, Haringey’s Head of Housing Investment and Sites, will take part in the event, which will work in a speed dating format, featuring a desk for each participating local authority and public sector landowner, staffed by a senior member of the regeneration, development or planning team alongside a Sitematch London advisor. sitematchlondon/attendees.html Take a chunk of Tottenham. Take two or three. Weve plenty to dispose of, for next to nothing, comments Tottenham Labour Councillor Alan Stanton. The excellent publicity for the Sitematch event, designed by the artist Gene Cornelius, and inspired by pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, depicts developers and officers actually making the match. She thinks, “Council desperately seeking partner to develop sites. Mixed use considered”, but he ponders, “How can I tell, if this is the one for me?...” See the image here: 3foxfiles.co.uk/downloads/sitematch/estates_gazette_sitematch.pdf Cllr Stanton says, “We do need new homes for Tottenham residents. But not red-rosetted Tory displacement and social cleansing in the interest of profit, for developers, Arup, and other consultants”. Paul Burnham says, “Haringey have decided to spend £1,500,000 from our rent accounts, over the next three years, to “sell” us the deals being made at Cannes today. That is unfair and wrong, and it is not what we pay our rent for”. minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=36516 [Scroll to ‘Financial Planning - Appendicies1 to 6, Item 608’ and see p7]. “Haringey’s housing plans aim to price local people out of our own area”, he continued. “Instead of demolition and private redevelopment, we need new council housing for local people, including the 9,838 households on Haringey’s waiting list”. More from: Paul Burnham Haringey Defend Council Housing 07847 714 158 Cllr Alan Stanton (Labour) 020 8376 4223 Cllr Alan Strickland (Labour), Haringey Council - Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration 07854 481 050 Notes for Editors: (1) Haringey’s housing waiting list was 9,838 at 01/04/13 – the last published figure [DCLG website, Live tables 600]. (2) Defend Council Housing defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch/ [ends]
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:20:44 +0000
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