West Kensington Estate

West Ken & Gibbs Green Residents take the campaign on the road

April 11, 2013
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  Update 12/04/2013: Our visit to the PR Consultant’s, Endelman, has been the subject of an article in PR Week Magazine. Read here. Yesterday I met with residents of the West Kensington & Gibbs Green Estates to join them in their travelling protest against redevelopment of Earls Court. There is a great article in the [...]

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Hammersmith House of Horrors

March 28, 2013
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The first of April will be no joke for anybody in Hammersmith living in social housing or relying on housing benefit. A shower of measures comes into force – the Bedroom Tax; thousands of families currently awaiting new homes will find themselves thrown off the housing register; new tenants will be subjected to draconian short-term [...]

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eNews January 2013

January 30, 2013

Jan 2013 News from Westminster and Hammersmith     By-Election In White City The Most Lucrative Traffic Camera in Britain? Police Cuts – Question the Deputy The Great FireCut of London Nash Cash Saloon Bar Debate Betting Shops Hospitals Update Planning   By-Election in White City and Wormholt The council by-election in Wormholt and White [...]

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Deputy Mayor Referred to IPCC over West Ken Allegations

January 15, 2013

Earlier today news came that the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission over allegations about the behaviour of Hammersmith and Fulham Council while he was in charge. The substance of the complaint is in this letter to the GLA from the community organiser who [...]

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West Ken JR – Permission Granted

October 24, 2012
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The Tenants and Residents Associations on the West Ken and Gibbs Green Estate have won permission for Judicial Review of the council’s actions over the plans to knock down their homes. Coupled with the news that the Council owes HMRC around £1m because of a “Tax blunder”  and its misbehaviour over planning – both Deloitte [...]

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West Ken Masterplan – Objection

October 10, 2011

Many constituents have made their feelings on the Masterplan abundantly clear. It includes the demolition of 760 homes on the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates. The overwhelming majority of residents do not want this scheme and have organised themselves in order to oppose it. When the matter was first raised, my constituents were told [...]

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A smash and grab deal for Council over West Kens and Gibbs Green

July 13, 2011

              I have recently written to the leader of H&F Council urging the Council to cooperate with residents on the threatened West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates after 2/3 of households joined the West Ken & Gibbs Green Community Homes group. Stephen Greenhalgh replied and boasts about how H&F Council are [...]

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Social housing debate targets Housing Associations

May 9, 2011

In a six-hour debate on social housing in London, a surprising amount of criticism was leveled at Housing Associations, as Inside Housing Magazine picked up. It is possible to build decent homes that ordinary people can afford to buy or rent; the  picture above shows just such a development. Though it was put up just [...]

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DEVELOPERS OUT!

February 17, 2010

This was the message to CapCo the property developer threatening the homes of 763 families on the West Ken and Gibbs Green Estates last Thursday when they tried to spread their slick propaganda to council tenants and leaseholders.  90% of residents have so far signed the petition to say they want their homes improved not [...]

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Notice to Quit

December 9, 2009
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Hammersmith & Fulham Council Leader Stephen Greenhalgh thought he could serve notice to quit on the residents of West Kensington & Gibbs Green council estates by labelling them a ‘ghetto’ and by planning to demolish their homes. Now tenants have returned the favour by serving him with formal Notice under Section 34A of the Housing [...]

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