Housing and community activists from a range of groups marched to save The Old Kent Road today. The area is under threat from overdevelopment and the loss of council housing.
@shapecoalition
Local people re calling for
🔥Homes for people not for profit
🔥Council housing, not luxury flats
🔥Stop overdevelopment
🔥Protect local traders and cultural spaces
We are SHAPE (Southark Housing and Planning Emergency) a broad coalition of groups organising to demand Southwark Council take emergency action to address the housing and planning crisis. See slide 2 for our 10 demands.
We are:
⚠️Southwark Defend Council Housing
⚠️35% Campaign
⚠️Save Borough Triangle
⚠️Aylesham Community Action
⚠️Latin Elephant
⚠️Up the Elephant
⚠️Yes to Fair Redevelopment
⚠️Southwark Notes
⚠️Peckham Vision
⚠️Fight for Aylesbury
⚠️No Price on Culture
⚠️Glengall Wharf Garden
⚠️Southwark TUC
⚠️Southwark Group of Tenants Organisation
⚠️ Southwark Stand Up to Racism
⚠️Southwark UNITE
⚠️Southwark UNISON
⚠️Southwark GMB
⚠️UAL Students for Community Action in Peckham
⚠️PCS SELLS Branch
⚠️ Southwark Acorn
⚠️ Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth
⚠️ Save Old Kent Road
We welcome other groups joining the coalition! If your group would like join please contact please email [email protected].
Stay tuned for more updates, activities and actions in the new year!
Save The Old Kent Rd demonstration today.
Demands are: Homes for people not for profit
• Council housing, not luxury flats
• Stop overdevelopment
• Protect local traders and cultural spaces
Great day out with local people!
⭐️ ROUTE DETAILS FOR MARCH TODAY ⭐️
12pm: Michael Faraday Memorial (SE1 6LW) for speeches
1pm: We start marching via:
New Kent Rd
Bricklayers Arms
Old Kent Rd
2:15pm: Christchurch Peckham (SE15 1JF) for pick up point for accessible march
3:15pm: End of march opposite Tustin Estate (SE15 IEE)
Thank you to the folks who’ve organised with us to get the word out to Save Old Kent Rd!
Now we march! 🔥
Southwark Council and private developers want to build 20,000 luxury flats along Old Kent Road.
Join us THIS SATURDAY at 12pm outside Michael Faraday Memorial to protest against gentrification and social cleansing and to demand the affordable and secure council homes that our communities need
London’s loss of local businesses serving communities is a consequence of a 21st-century global city’s moral decay. The influx of foreign capital and offshore property developers, following a spree of urban development with eyes on Opportunity Areas, will change London’s character. Housing for a new clientele is driving commercial shifts, replacing longtime residents and losing community-serving businesses with upscale services or chains.
Click link in bio to read more (no paywall)👉🏼
#urbandevelopment #localbusinesses #socialvalue #urbanplanning #neighborhood
THIS SATURDAY 25TH APRIL WE MARCH DOWN THE OLD ROAD TO SAY WE NEED HOMES FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT ✊✊
Join us!
📍12pm, Michael Faraday Memorial, opposite Elephant and Castle Tube Station
See you there! 💛❤️
🎵: @izzycofie
WE’RE MARCHING OLD KENT RD!
Massive development plans and yet again the community is not being listened to by Southwark’s Council and developers.
🕛 Sat 25th April, from 12pm,
📍Faraday Memorial (big silver box in Elephant & Castle)
See you there with bells on!
🤞🏾Thank you everyone for coming yesterday. We had an amazing turnout and it was great to see the result of our campaigning come to fruition.
🙏🏾We had some great speakers, a very positive energy from the crowd representing the many different communities of Lewisham.
🫡 Inspite of the Labour parties pathetic smears of grassroots organising it's amazing to see the campaign grow everyday and more people latching onto hope that we can change our cities and the will to fight affordable housing.
More photos coming soon.
