Category: Resistance by Design

The images in this report were presented to the Central Hill estate Residents Engagement Panel on the 17 May, 2016. The proposals also take on board comments from Lambeth Council’s planning department, as well as comments from residents, neighbours and other architects following ASH’s previous exhibition on 20 February, 2016. The award winning Central Hill … Continue reading Central Hill: The Alternative to Demolition

‘Residents came up with the People’s Plan, which shows the professionals how new development ought to be done. At the outset, Community Homes brought more than 100 residents into workshops and site visits with architects.* Residents and architects together identified space for up to 327 new homes and devised plans for improvements to their homes, … Continue reading West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates: New Homes and Improvements without Demolition. Feasibility Study Report

Introduction We’re here to present the design proposals drawn up by Architects for Social Housing for the regeneration of Central Hill Estate to the Central Hill Resident Engagement Panel. We also make our presentation – or rather re-present our proposals – to the residents of Central Hill Estate, whose exclusion from the decisions that will … Continue reading ASH Presentation to Central Hill Estate Residents Engagement Panel

The regeneration of London’s council estates is by now widely regarded as the answer to the housing shortage that is driving up the cost of living in the capital beyond the means of most Londoners, both renters and home buyers alike. However, in one of the contradictions that is driving London’s housing crisis, this solution … Continue reading Resistance by Design: West Kensington & Gibbs Green Estates

1. Continuation not Demolition Central Hill is an extremely well-designed estate whose masterplan, drawn up by LCC architect Rosemary Stjernstedt, is a model of community living and estate planning. Completed in the early 1970s, it consists of 456 structurally sound flats that are home to an established and strong community of over 1,000 people.ASH’s proposals aim to respect and continue the existing … Continue reading Central Hill: Design Proposals

Option for In-Fill and Refurbishment: Report by Lambeth Council Financial and Legal Considerations Homes for Lambeth and Lambeth Council are separate legal entities – so the new company would be taking on an early debt for properties on which it had no legal ownership status, and would not therefore represent assets against which debt could … Continue reading Facts and Figures on Central Hill Estate

On Tuesday evening the Central Hill Tenants and Residents Association was informed that the exhibition of proposals for the demolition of their estate announced by Lambeth Council for 20 February has been cancelled, and the decision to demolish their estate put back from April to June. This is the third time the date has been rescheduled. … Continue reading Good News on Central Hill

In June 2015, Architects for Social Housing (ASH) were contacted by residents of Central Hill, a council estate in Crystal Palace. They has started the Save Central Community campaign that February, and were fighting to save their homes from demolition at the hands of Lambeth Council, who had formally added the estate to their regeneration programme in December 2014. … Continue reading In Defence of Central Hill

This meeting of ASH was devoted to Central Hill estate in Crystal Palace, for which ASH is currently assembling a team to design an architectural alternative to demolition. The focus of the meeting was the presentation by ASH member Viola Petrella of her extensive work on Central Hill. Coming out of her consultations with the Central … Continue reading ASH Meeting on Central Hill

ASH consultation workshop at the launch event of The People’s Plan, feasibility study for refurbishment and additional buildings for West Kensington & Gibbs Green estates, as part of their application for the Right to Transfer. Residents were grouped into the building type they lived in, high-rise, 4-5 storey blocks, terrace houses, etc, and its location … Continue reading Home: Pin it Down!