Announcement
8th March 2017
Hello, campaigners
The Sutton Estate is close to my heart, for reasons set out in the attachment (Letter below). If the proprietors will let me scatter Aunty Una's ashes there, I would be happy for any residents past or present or their survivors to join me in a miniature act of remembrance for all of them.
The Sutton Estate is close to my heart, for reasons set out in the attachment (Letter below). If the proprietors will let me scatter Aunty Una's ashes there, I would be happy for any residents past or present or their survivors to join me in a miniature act of remembrance for all of them.
Dear Sir
MISS UNA CAITLIN MADIGAN , deceased
I am writing on behalf of my late aunt, Una Madigan, and myself, both of us former residents
of the Sutton Dwellings in Cale Street. The Dwellings are a sacred ground to her because it was where her parents, John (Jack) and Josephine Madigan, lived out their exemplary lives, in 4 D Block( subsequently Delmerend House). They are to me too because her parents were parents to me, although I lived with my mother, Maureen Brigid Dorling, when she was single, in 30 P Block. Una died recently aged 82 and it was her last wish that her ashes be scattered as close as possible outside the site of the Madigan flat. I very much hope that you feel be able to agree to my doing that in the near future.
Essentially, that’s it. The rest is about why I feel this matters, and it need not detain the hard-pressed. The warm reddish-pink brickwork, the daft ivory pediments over the block entrances, the unforgiving tarmac of the yards, on which kids nonetheless bounced, of Sutton Dwellings seem to live when they do not...READ MORE
MISS UNA CAITLIN MADIGAN , deceased
I am writing on behalf of my late aunt, Una Madigan, and myself, both of us former residents
of the Sutton Dwellings in Cale Street. The Dwellings are a sacred ground to her because it was where her parents, John (Jack) and Josephine Madigan, lived out their exemplary lives, in 4 D Block( subsequently Delmerend House). They are to me too because her parents were parents to me, although I lived with my mother, Maureen Brigid Dorling, when she was single, in 30 P Block. Una died recently aged 82 and it was her last wish that her ashes be scattered as close as possible outside the site of the Madigan flat. I very much hope that you feel be able to agree to my doing that in the near future.
Essentially, that’s it. The rest is about why I feel this matters, and it need not detain the hard-pressed. The warm reddish-pink brickwork, the daft ivory pediments over the block entrances, the unforgiving tarmac of the yards, on which kids nonetheless bounced, of Sutton Dwellings seem to live when they do not...READ MORE
Latest News : WILLIAM SUTTON PLANNING DECISION.
RBKC Reject Planning Permission To Demolish The Sutton Estate.
Chelsea social housing plan 'will lead to ghetto for the rich'
Residents have warned that Chelsea will become a “ghetto for the international rich” if plans to replace a social housing estate with luxury apartments are approved next week.
Mick Jagger’s younger brother and multi-millionaire Lord Northampton are among 350 people who have objected to the demolition of the 103- year-old Sutton Estate resulting in the loss of 146 council flats.
Its 15 Edwardian blocks near the Royal Marsden Hospital in Cale Street contain 383 social housing flats. Housing association Affinity Sutton wants to replace 13 of the blocks with 343 modern flats, of which 106 will be available for private buyers. READ MORE
Mick Jagger’s younger brother and multi-millionaire Lord Northampton are among 350 people who have objected to the demolition of the 103- year-old Sutton Estate resulting in the loss of 146 council flats.
Its 15 Edwardian blocks near the Royal Marsden Hospital in Cale Street contain 383 social housing flats. Housing association Affinity Sutton wants to replace 13 of the blocks with 343 modern flats, of which 106 will be available for private buyers. READ MORE
Affordable homes in Chelsea Sutton estate may be saved
Officials at the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have recommended that plans lodged to tear down the Sutton Dwellings by a leading social housing provider, Affinity Sutton, should be refused because they do not include enough replacement social housing.
The borough also accused Affinity Sutton of overstating costs and understating potential revenues from the scheme in financial calculations setting out its viability in order to minimise the amount of social housing in the new development. READ MORE
The borough also accused Affinity Sutton of overstating costs and understating potential revenues from the scheme in financial calculations setting out its viability in order to minimise the amount of social housing in the new development. READ MORE
RBKC PLANNERS PAN AFFINITY SUTTON
Mr Stallwood has done the right thing. He has advised the Planning Committee to kick out Affinity Sutton's social cleansing plans for Sutton Estate. Had Mr Stallwood not done so he would have played straight into the hands of the opportunists and speculators who run Affinity Sutton. READ MORE
AFFINITY SUTTON APPLY TO DESTROY SUTTON ESTATE
FTHN: "The elderly and those with young families will be displaced. Those currently growing up in social housing will struggle to become productive and upstanding citizens having had their childhood blighted and their education disrupted by forced relocation. Worse still, having been ostracised to the edges of London, if not the edges of society, they will have nothing to aspire to." READ MORE
"the authorities are betraying
the original purpose of the Sutton Estate".
...London has become dotted with a new breed of apartment blocks, buildings full of luxury flats designed for wealthy foreigners. Low income Londoners are feeling squeezed.
Take the tenants of the Sutton Estate. Located in one of London’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the estate was built a hundred years ago to house the city’s working poor. But some of today's impoverished residents now face eviction.... READ MORE
Take the tenants of the Sutton Estate. Located in one of London’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the estate was built a hundred years ago to house the city’s working poor. But some of today's impoverished residents now face eviction.... READ MORE
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Send them away...
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The UK’s most expensive borough to live in, the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea, plans to send some of its most vulnerable residents to live outside London because the soaring property market means it can no longer afford to house them.
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A Big Issue...
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"The Sutton Dwellings form a social housing estate. The blocks were built back in 1913 at the behest of philanthropist William Sutton, a Londoner who made his fortune in parcel delivery. He wanted to provide “houses for use and occupation by the poor”. His wishes were fulfilled for more than a century. Yet most of the estate is now set to be torn down".
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Born & Bred...
February 2015
Tenants condemn plans for Chelsea Estate Eddie Izzard & Tom Watson MP say the plans by Affinity Sutton will “rip apart” a close knit community Read More |
Facing Eviction...
February 2015
Fight plans to sell off social housing estate Plan to evict low-income tenants from Sutton Estate to make way for private homes. Read More |
From across the capital...
Jan 2015
Protest over lack of affordable London housing Campaigners from across the capital, will also call for more focus on building social housing Read More |
The Raw Story...Live
Supporters of The Sutton Estate Blog. News alerts, comment and opinion.
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Flora Neville casts her studious eye on Affinty Sutton's demolition plans
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1. Refurbishing & upgrading existing homes should always be the first and preferred option rather than demolition.
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I Live on the Sutton Estate...
A letter from a resident on the Sutton Estate. READ MORE |
Firstly they state they are better homes for all of us. Well I totally disagree with what I saw of the new homes, they did not impress me at all.
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The history of the sutton estate, Chelsea
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Affinity Sutton's planning application proposal would entail:
Number of social rent homes demolished = 383
Number of social rent homes
proposed
= 237
Total loss = 146 homes
Social housing floorspace to be demolished = 18,708 m2
Social housing floorspace proposed = 16,142 m2
Total loss = 2566 m2
Number of sheltered housing units demolished = 73 (Blocks J-K)
Number of sheltered housing units to be built = 0
Private garden and community area for sheltered housing residents will not be replaced.
Gross revenues from sale of properties > £380 million
Number of social rent homes demolished = 383
Number of social rent homes
proposed
= 237
Total loss = 146 homes
Social housing floorspace to be demolished = 18,708 m2
Social housing floorspace proposed = 16,142 m2
Total loss = 2566 m2
Number of sheltered housing units demolished = 73 (Blocks J-K)
Number of sheltered housing units to be built = 0
Private garden and community area for sheltered housing residents will not be replaced.
Gross revenues from sale of properties > £380 million
Apart from the issue that the proposed building is an ugly mediocrity totally inappropriate, out of keeping and context with its surroundings, this application is in clear breach of the 2010 RBKC Core Strategy in the loss of social housing.
Both the RBKC Consolidated Local Plan (CLP) and the London Plan (LP) state that there will be no net loss of existing social rented provision.
Both the RBKC Consolidated Local Plan (CLP) and the London Plan (LP) state that there will be no net loss of existing social rented provision.
Policy CH4 Estate Renewal of the Consolidated Plan states
the council requires that where the redevelopment of social rented housing estates is proposed:
‘the maximum reasonable amount of affordable housing, with the minimum being no net loss of existing social rented provision.’
The London Plan, Policy 3.14 Existing Housing, section B states,
‘loss of housing, including affordable housing, should be resisted unless the housing is replaced at existing or higher densities with at least equivalent floorspace’.
the council requires that where the redevelopment of social rented housing estates is proposed:
‘the maximum reasonable amount of affordable housing, with the minimum being no net loss of existing social rented provision.’
The London Plan, Policy 3.14 Existing Housing, section B states,
‘loss of housing, including affordable housing, should be resisted unless the housing is replaced at existing or higher densities with at least equivalent floorspace’.
These properties are in a bad condition because, despite an income in excess of £3.5 million p.a. from the estate, AS has been deliberately letting the properties dilapidate.
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