These blocks of flats alongside Waterloo Road in Romford are threatened with demolition as part of a so called ‘regeneration’ scheme. The ‘vision’ of what the architects, Conran + Partners propose, illustrated below, can be seen here in full: A new lease of life for Waterloo Estate.
It’s bullshit. For the tenants in the blocks shown above, it’s not a new lease of life. The plan talks about a ‘significant number of mixed tenure properties’ which generally means very few homes provided at current levels of social housing rent. Many of the tenants will be getting moved out and re-located. What really makes us livid is that according to the Romford Civic Society the tenants have not been shown these plans.
Conran + Partners and Havering Council need to be reminded in no uncertain terms that we’re talking about people’s lives here. We’re talking about an existing community effectively being…
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