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Strategy for demolition
• THE current Maiden Lane demolition fancy strategy is cunningly constructed to lead us, people who live there, through to responding Yes! Yes! Yes!, like Molly Bloom at the end of Ulysses.
But a bit of careful thought may lead one to probe the logic.
Apart from the shenanigans of inventing new, bureaucratic, semi-fictional committees to boss us about, the council “Open Communities” and Levitt Bernstein have invited the estate to their five-part farce. At each performance of the “regeneration workshop”, no interruption of the show by embarrassing questions will be tolerated. There will be no discussion of what we may want or clear explanation of what they intend.
People may believe they had some say in it all by attending the workshop sessions – even accept there will be no general meeting where all views may be freely expressed or vote taken. And if part of the estate can be conned into leaving without a fuss then clearing the rest out will be a piece of cake.
The plan is, and always was, the demolition of the estate. One clear illustration; the last workshop broke up at about 9pm on October 8. At around 9am on October 9, a four-page glossy leaflet was delivered around the estate announcing the three “regeneration options” “we” had chosen, two of which were never mentioned before.
A glossy leaflet can’t be composed, designed, printed and delivered in 12 hours. Clearly the decision had been made some time before the consultation process had ended. Maybe before it even began.
R D Warren, NW1
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