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Chelsea housing estate saved from demolition to get a huge revamp instead By Julia Gregory 6th June 2019
Clarion plans to demolish 159 flats in blocks A to D.
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Clarion cancels controversial planned demolition of most of Sutton EstateBy Luke Barratt 4th June 2019
The UK’s largest housing association, Clarion, has cancelled its controversial plan to demolish and regenerate the Sutton Estate.
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Ecstatic Chelsea residents told their homes now won't be demolished8th Jan 2019
Secretary of State for housing, James Brokenshire, rejected Clarion Housing Group’s plans to knock down and redevelop historic Sutton estate because of a "net loss of social housing". |
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The implications of the SoS's rejection of an estate regeneration on grounds of social housing lossby David Dewar 3 January 2019
The decision by housing secretary James Brokenshire to refuse plans for an estate regeneration scheme in west London is an important marker for the way social housing is valued in such renewal schemes, practitioners and politicians have claimed.
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GMB welcome rejected planning permission for Sutton Estate
December 19, 2018
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Brokenshire blocks 366-home estate regeneration scheme over loss of social housing
by Mark Wilding, December 19, 2018
The housing secretary has rejected a housing association's appeal
against a council's refusal of its plans for the 366-home redevelopment
of a west London housing estate, after he concluded that the resulting
net loss of social housing would be unacceptable.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 – SECTION 78
APPEAL BY CLARION HOUSING GROUP (Affinity Sutton Homes Limited)
SITE AT William Sutton Estate, Cale Street, London SW3 3QY
Report APP/K5600/W/17/3177810
18th December 2018 -
PLANNING PERMISSION BY CLARION HOUSING GROUP (AFFINITY SUTTON) TO
DEMOLISH THE HISTORIC SUTTON ESTATE IS REFUSED.
APPEAL DISMISSED. Read the full decision
ref: TH-THL.FID100128239
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 – SECTION 78
APPEAL BY CLARION HOUSING GROUP (Affinity Sutton Homes Limited)
SITE AT William Sutton Estate, Cale Street, London SW3 3QY
Report APP/K5600/W/17/3177810
18th December 2018 -
PLANNING PERMISSION BY CLARION HOUSING GROUP (AFFINITY SUTTON) TO
DEMOLISH THE HISTORIC SUTTON ESTATE IS REFUSED.
APPEAL DISMISSED. Read the full decision
17th Dec 2018
The Fate of The Sutton Estate is to
be decided by Secretary of State no later than 17th December 2018
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Clarion chief executive takes ‘extended leave of absence’
By Gavriel Hollander Sept 2018
Ms Cooke took over as the boss at the UK’s largest housing association in April following the retirement of Keith Exford.
No reason has been given for her period of leave, with the 125,000-home association declining to offer further comment. Clarion was formed by a 2016 merger between Affinity Sutton and Circle. It is the UK’s largest housing association. It has an ambition to deliver 50,000 new homes over the next 10 years READ MORE |
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Fury as housing associations redevelop and sell affordable homes
By David Batty June 2018
local residents and the council have warned a public inquiry that backing plans to redevelop the Sutton estate, near the King’s Road, would give housing associations across the country carte blanche to not update social housing...
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Clarion amalgamates Circle subsidiaries
By Luke Barratt Jan 2018
The UK’s largest housing association has completed the amalgamation of a complex group structure, with the exception of one east London association at the centre of a repairs storm last year.
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Keith Exford to retire from Clarion
By Peter Apps Sept 2017
The long-standing chief executive of the UK’s largest housing association has announced he will retire at the end of the financial year...READ MORE.
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Flats in the same borough as Grenfell Tower lying empty because the owners want to demolish them.Aug 2017
They were emptied out - "decanted" - last year because the company who owns them, Affinty Sutton, want to demolish the building.
Their plan included knocking down 383 homes, and replacing them with 237 social rent flats. That was rejected by Kensington and Chelsea Council, who said the net loss of social housing was too great...READ MORE |
photo via Times by Francesco Guidicini
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Felicity Kendal slams ‘segregation’ of poor by councils (£)
By Andy Jones & Jon Ungod-Thomas Jul 2017
Felicity Kendal, who lives in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, called for stricter rules for developers of luxury flats and greater provision of affordable housing. She highlighted a century old housing estate in Chelsea , Sutton Estate, in which it is proposed that affordable homes are razed for a new development. Kendal is the latest celebrity to voice support for the estate, which has become a flashpoint for housing campaigners.
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Ian Henderson, Moya Denman and Andrew Barshall (Image: Adam Gerrard / Daily Mirror)
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Scandal of the flats standing empty as Grenfell Tower families live in hotels
By Ros Wynne Jones JUL 2017
In Kensington and Chelsea, the same borough in which Grenfell Tower stands like a scar, over 159 social housing flats stand empty. By coincidence, that’s one more than enough to house every single one of the 158 families who survived the devastating fire one month ago today.
The sturdy red-brick blocks of the Sutton Estate were built in 1913 by the philanthropist William Sutton to house “the poor of London and other towns”. One of the towers was strong enough to survive a direct hit during the Blitz . Yet today, four blocks lie empty, their bathrooms and utilities destroyed by the landlord Clarion Housing. READ MORE |
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SIR ROBERT YOUNG Chairman of CLARION resigns
By John Harris Feb 2017
Sir Robin Young’s decision to stand down from Clarion Housing Group in April comes after reports into residents’ ‘living hell’ at Orchard Village estate...READ MORE
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Affinity Sutton and Circle complete £827m merger (£)
By Helen Crane Nov 2016
Affinity Sutton and Circle Housing Group have merged to form Clarion Housing Group: the largest housing association in the UK...READ MORE (£)
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Affordable homes in Chelsea Sutton estate may be saved
By Robert Booth Nov 2016
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 |
RBKC PLANNERS PAN AFFINITY SUTTON
By The Dame Nov 2016
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
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
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Chelsea social housing plan 'will lead to ghetto for the rich'
By Sophia Sleigh Nov 2016
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 |
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By Stephen Beard August 2015
Just like New York, 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 |
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By Stephen Beard August 2015
(Andrew) Barshall claims the influx of foreign cash is forcing some of London’s poorer residents out of the city, and he cites the planned redevelopment of the Sutton Estate in Chelsea as yet another example of this. The estate — a cluster of fine, old red-brick apartment blocks in one of London’s most expensive districts — was built with the legacy of a Victorian philanthropist, William Sutton, who left his money to provide low-cost accommodations in nice neighborhoods for London’s working poor. Barshall argues that a plan to demolish and rebuild the estate in order to cash in on London’s rising property prices will betray Sutton’s charitable intentions. READ MORE |
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By Robert Booth August 2015
new strategy comes amid plans to tear down flats in Chelsea which the council currently uses for temporary accommodation. They are likely to be replaced in part by private apartments fetching up to £4m each, in a scheme that has been opposed by the comedian Eddie Izzard and the deputy Labour leadership candidate Tom Watson. READ MORE |
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By Adam Forrest March 2015
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. READ MORE |
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By Tom Watson MP February 2015
Across London families and communities are being threatened by the hard, cold face of ‘regeneration’. Million pound homes are marketed to the wealthy elites of the world in the glossy brochures of developers. This is while people are being turfed out of the homes they’ve lived in for decades. READ MORE |
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By David Churchill & Josh Pettitt February 2015
Low income tenants on one of central London’s best known estates have condemned “social cleaning” plans to demolish it and build luxury apartments on the site. |
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By Robert Booth February 2015
The campaign against the plans has won the backing of the comedian Eddie Izzard and the Labour MP Tom Watson. The scheme could deliver Exford’s operation a profit of well over £200m. |
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By Amanda Hall February 2015
The Save Sutton Estate Campaign join Headline London to discuss the need for more focus on building social housing instead of developing luxury flats targeted at investors. |
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By The Dame December 2014
Andrew Barshall and Ian Henderson who both ran as independents in the local council elections earlier this year have now been invited to the Houses of Parliament. |
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Eddie is 'ard on Sutton estate developers
By Kirsty Shanks October 2014
Built in the early 20th Century, Sutton Estate has been providing social housing in Chelsea for over 100 years
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Don’t put profit before low-income families at Chelsea's Sutton Estateby Ruth Bloomfield 1st October 2014
Comedian Eddie Izzard is backing a campaign to stop a large part of Chelsea's Sutton Estate - one of prime London’s biggest social housing estates - being turned into £1 million flats for sale.
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'Everything must go' in K&C/Farewell to Chelsea?
By Emma Dent Coad 1st October 2014
Thus, Sutton Dwellings residents may be sold down the river...while their landlord Affinity Sutton have no shame in stating at their first consultation with residents, that they wish to ‘maintain the sense of community’ while, with no sense of irony or shame, proposing private gardens for private homes.
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Comic legend Eddie Izzard joins Chelsea residents' fight to save their homes
By Michael Russell 24th September 2014
“London is crying out for affordable housing and this is not the way to do it. The prices of houses are going up and up into stratospheric levels so that no young people and no people on low incomes can afford to live here. I think that is wrong, that is not good for the lifeblood of London.”
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Eddie Izzard to perform gig to help save Chelsea estateBy Alix Culbertson 16th September 2014
The comedian is performing a benefit to raise funds to save the William Sutton Estate in Chelsea from being knocked down.
Comic legend Eddie Izzard is performing a gig for one night only to raise money for a campaign to save a Chelsea estate...the actor, comedian and writer will turn his attentions on Friday (September 19) to the William Sutton Estate just behind the King’s Road which owners Affinity Sutton are planning to pull down. READ MORE |
DO YOU TRUST AFFINITY SUTTON?
By "The Dame" 13th September 2014
The luxury gated apartments to be sold privately, over 40% of the development plan, have all the best southerly facing views over St. Lukes park with separate entrances and private walled gardens to keep the social tenants out. The social housing tenants are to be sent over to the north facing blocks losing their views of the park, trees and sunshine.
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Chelsea Under Pressure
Newsletter No.39 May 2014
A planning application to demolish the entire Sutton Estate in Cale Street is expected soon. Affinity Sutton, the huge housing association that now owns William Sutton’s pioneering ‘affordable’ housing estate, is expected to propose the building of one group of flats for sale, the proceeds of which will be used to finance new affordable flats nearby. Tenants are currently being given notice to clear the way for this project. Some are content to move but others are deeply unhappy.
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Poll challenge to ‘developer friendly’ Tories in Kensington & Chelsea.
By Mira Bar-Hillel and Joseph Watts 16th May 2014
Three independent candidates will challenge the Tory dominance of Kensington & Chelsea council at borough elections next Thursday....fighting to save the Sutton Estate.
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AFFINITY SUTTON TO DEMOLISH SUTTON DWELLINGS IN THE HEART OF CHELSEA
By "The Dame" 14th October 2013
When William Richard Sutton, an immensely generous London philanthropist died in 1901, he left what was then a vast fortune for the provision of model housing for those in need.
His legacy stands proudly in Chelsea as a testament to one man's vision and charity.
How would he feel about the Affinity Sutton and their greedy and exploitative plan to demolish the majority of this London landmark?
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His legacy stands proudly in Chelsea as a testament to one man's vision and charity.
How would he feel about the Affinity Sutton and their greedy and exploitative plan to demolish the majority of this London landmark?
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The Chelsea set and a question of class
By SEAN O'NEILL 12th April 2002
Lord Cadogan has taken up cudgels on behalf of the working class. Later this year he will go to the High Court to oppose the building of four private houses on land designated by his grandfather for use in "housing of the working classes".
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