The EIA should have been done PRIOR to any decision about regeneration being entered into - i.e. BEFORE the estates were earmarked for regeneration. This is stated in Lambeth's own regeneration document 2012 IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE!
Guinness Trust: The Loughborough Estate Occupation
‘We’re winning the fight – the Guinness Trust has rehoused almost all of the Assured Shorthold Tenancies – but there are plenty of reasons to continue occupying this space. We protest the needless destruction of these solid flats to make way for papier-mâché and glass. We protest the abuse of the term “affordable”, and the … Continue reading Guinness Trust: The Loughborough Estate Occupation
Knights Walk: Background to Demoltion
Knight’s Walk is a small part of the larger Cotton Gardens Estate in Kennington, and was designed by George Finch in the 1960s. Finch was an in-house architect at Lambeth whose other buildings include the Brixton recreation centre and Lambeth Towers. Not having any issues with costly refurbishment or any fundamental structural problems to begin … Continue reading Knights Walk: Background to Demoltion
Cressingham Gardens Estate: Background to Demolition
Cressingham Gardens is a Lambeth council estate in the south of Brixton, bordering Brockwell Park. Among other things its design - built in 1968 by Lambeth architect Ted Hollamby - focused primarily on the estate’s relationship with the park, and on creating a set of spaces which encourage communal living. Together with 5 other estates … Continue reading Cressingham Gardens Estate: Background to Demolition
What’s the Point? Protest and the Housing Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjxdjoxn-Oc&feature=youtu.be I recorded this footage at 7.00pm on the evening of Thursday, 19 February. It captures a moment in the march by Class War between One Commercial Street, Aldgate, and One Tower Bridge, Southwark. Class War have been demonstrating at the former building in protest at the so-called ‘poor doors’ through which the residents of … Continue reading What’s the Point? Protest and the Housing Crisis
The Aylesbury Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK-4217g2u8 1 The first, I suppose, was the Great Wall of China, Thirteen thousand miles along its northern border, Built to keep out the Mongolian hordes – But now we have the Aylesbury Wall. And the Emperor Hadrian’s famous wall, Seventy-three miles long and twenty feet tall, Built to keep out the Barbarian hordes – … Continue reading The Aylesbury Wall
Sweets Way
1 Suck on this, kids, open up the wrapper. Stick it in your mouth, it’s a gob stopper. As sweet lies go, it’s a double whopper. To the bitter core, it’s an eye opener. And the tears in the eyes of these kids, And the anger in the voices of these kids, And the betrayal … Continue reading Sweets Way
About this Website
Although this website archives texts and books published by Architects for Social Housing between 2015 and 2021, this is no longer the website for the work of ASH. To keep abreast of ASH’s ongoing design and community work, in both London and Hong Kong, please click on the following link: Architects for Social Housing, the … Continue reading About this Website
When We Marched For Homes
When we walked the streets in the cold From Shoreditch Church to City Hall Having gathered there at midday On the last day of January To demand a home to live in In the city we were born in Where were you when we marched for homes? When the London Evening Standard The night before … Continue reading When We Marched For Homes
Geopoetry: Greenwich Peninsula
This text, with the accompanying images projected, was performed at the conference on ‘The Mediated City’ held at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, Greenwich Peninsula, between 1-3 April, 2014. The performance was given on Wednesday, 2 April. The following day, Thursday 3 April, the geopoetry reading it introduced was conducted around Greenwich Peninsula. The main … Continue reading Geopoetry: Greenwich Peninsula
Simon Elmer 