Carpenters Against Regeneration Plans (CARP!) is a group of residents who live on the Carpenters Estate in Stratford East London. We are campaigning for a fair deal from Newham Council, who are planning to remove the residents and demolish the estate.
Carpenters Estate is directly adjacent to the olympic development site, Stratford International Rail Station, and Stratford City Westfield Shopping District. It is a community built in what has become a prime and sought after location, of which Newham council have began a process of regeneration, and have revealed plans to demolish most of the estate.
The process of decanting residents (tenants, leaseholders and freeholders) has already begun and we feel it is being done unfairly without thorough consultation and proper advise being offered, and with a lack of transparent information regarding the plans for the estate and the processes involved.
CARP! has set up this blog as a tool to help raise awareness of the situation and to keep everybody informed on current developments regarding the regeneration of the estate.
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[…] local campaign, Carpenters Against Regeneration Plans (CARP), is determined to fight for the best deal they can get for local residents. They want their homes […]
[…] being advised by Mr Johnson that the more vociferous objectors on the estate – a group called CARP – was just a handful of disgruntled and unrepresentative individuals and that the main body of […]
My mum is 79 & has lived on the estate for 42 years. She has seen many of her life-long friends turfed out of their homes on the Carpenters Estate! Many of the old dears were very happy & secure on Carpenters & have now been relocated to other isolated tower blocks where they know no one & have further to go visit Stratford Shopping Centre which is one of their few pleasures. When my mum sees these old dears occasionally mum says ” they just look lost & sad”. It’s a disgrace that people can be treated like this & I for one will fight this injustice , SAVE THE CARPENTERS ESTATE!! SAVE COMMUNITIES !!
How can it be right to demolish people’s homes and communities where they have lived together with their neighbours over years?
Who has given Newham council the right to make decisions about people’s homes that they have bought with their hard earned money? Encouraged by the conservative council at the time.
The government should be supporting these individual home owners.
New homes should be built for people in this area as a legacy of the Olympics which the whole world has been enjoying in this area, whilst the people had to suffer all the building work and closure of roads whilst it went on.
This is wrong. Might should not overcome right.
UCL and the council should take the right moral,humane decision and not harass these people who felt they had secured their future by buying their own home.
Occupied homes are more important than a new University.
It is time to give this community respect and their security back.