Reza Tolou is a 74-year-old pensioner and flat owner in Darien House, located on Darien Road in the heart of Winstanley Estate. This four-storey walk-up block of flats, built in…
Continue Reading »Winstanley and York Estates redevelopment project is progressing very slowly. Currently, only Block 5 on the northern part of the project has been erected, and work is still ongoing.…
Continue Reading »In 2007, developers sought permission to construct a ten-storey building at the intersection of Plough Road, adjacent to York Garden. However, they withdrew their initial application, later proposing an eight-storey…
Continue Reading »‘This isn’t a ballot, it’s a fix.’ – This article is the second part of two posts on how to resist manipulative resident consultation tactics with the help of art.…
Continue Reading »‘This isn’t a ballot, it’s a fix.’ – This article is the first part of two posts on how to resist manipulative resident consultation tactics with the help of art.…
Continue Reading »The latest Housing Committee (September 2021) has presented a series of community benefits to mitigate the construction delay in the early phase of the Winstanley and York estates regeneration scheme.…
Continue Reading »UPDATE 04/08/2021 [Cyril Richert]: This occupation has created a lot of outcry, especially within the Church community. Contrary to what some activists thought, it appears now that the Baptist Church…
Continue Reading »This is the story of a large old tree that local people wanted to protect from felling. This is a story of a massive regeneration project lead by a Council…
Continue Reading »Protesters who occupied York Gardens since February to block Wandsworth Council project to destroy the park have been evicted on Friday and now most of the mature trees have gone.…
Continue Reading »A Picture (actually 2 here) is worth a thousand words, so here is a good illustration of what happens currently in the area with new developments. In reality they’ve removed…
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