Monthly Archives: January 2019

The Carpenters Estate: A Fresh Start or Business as Usual at Newham Council?

Focus E15 campaign will be holding a meeting to discuss all the issues raised by this great blog piece by Architects For Social Housing. The meeting about the fate for Carpenters Estate is on Saturday 2 February at 2.30pm at the Carpenters and Dockland Centre, 98 Gibbins Rd E15 2HU (nearest Tube Stratford)

A Communist in Hong Kong

Photograph by Alessia Gammarota

On the 27 October 2018, at a meeting between members of the Focus E15 Campaign and Rokhsana Fiaz, the Mayor of Newham, and members of her new administration, it was agreed that Architects for Social Housing would make a presentation to Newham council on the financial, social and environmental benefits of estate refurbishment and infill versus the costs of demolition and redevelopment. This presentation would present the findings from our report, The Costs of Estate Regeneration, which we had published in September and have since been presenting to various organisations across London. These included the inaugural Festival of Maintenance held at University College London; at a meeting of the Tulse Hill branch of the Labour Party; at a GovDesign meeting on Repair, Renovation and Maintenance; and to Len Duvall, the Greater London Authority Member for Greenwich and Lewisham and Leader of the Labour Party in the London Assembly. We have…

View original post 5,810 more words