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We are a UK-wide non-profit organisation, campaigning against demolition of social housing and linking up grassroots housing campaigns. Why demolish 50,000 buildings a year in the UK?

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The Sunflower II Group need your support with trial costs Just Stop Oil may have hung up the hi-viz but those who took action are still being criminalised by a government that is choosing to fuel the climate and ecological emergency rather than protect its c...

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80 empty properties on Central Hill Estate.
Β£400m wasted on 'Homes for Lambeth'
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Listen to 'Homes for Lambeth' tenant, Conor, on LBC, setting out the brutal reality of living in a borough with hundreds of council-owned homes sitting empty,where the council is making its own tenants homeless.

18.06.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peckham today

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11% of global C02 emissions come from construction.

The embodied carbon here was put into atmosphere when this structure was built.

This application breaches London Plan section H8 c and Southwark Plan policies on sustainability and net zero.

That is not a carbon saving.

04.06.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is RDD's position:

'This application claims this building is unviable without providing evidence.
It also fails to add the total embodied carbon in the existing building to that of demolition and rebuilding, and ignores the benefits of retrofitting.

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04.06.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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They've done it again.

Tonight, Southwark Planning Committee approved phase 2B of the Ayelsbury Estate demolition scheme: to destroy Wendover House, despite admitting the application by Notting Hill Genesis breaches the London Plan and the Southwark Plan.
Residents put up a fight, but
got sidelined

04.06.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to Refurbish Don't Demolish on Blue Sky!
Please share our posts with everyone you know in the housing justice movement, inc residents, housing activists, architects, community champions, friends & neighbours.
Join the fight against demolition & social cleansing.
Housing is a human right!

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