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They have orders to get us off our estate
• TOM Hopkins, managing director of Open Communities Ltd says the council is planning to invest a substantial sum in the Maiden Lane estate (Representing residents’ views, November 5).
It’s news to me!
The whole point of Open Communities coming on the estate and Solon before them, was, they said, to find a way to do the repairs without any funding from the council. From the outset the council said they had to knock down the estate in order to repair it. Does Open Communities now want it to appear that it was the idea of the tenants to call for the demolition of their own homes?
I was also interested to see the letter use or rather denigrate the word “duty”. That word has a moral quality whereas the contract for Open Communities has none. Their orders are to get us off the estate and no amount of vacuous claptrap like their commitment “to support and evidence the views of residents” can disguise this.
The law allows the tenants a vote. Is this so difficult to understand? Is this so impossible to arrange? A ballot form is quite simple.
R Warren,
Address supplied
Ballot now
• THE council proposes to demolish upwards of 200 homes on Maiden Lane estate.
Decent families will be forcibly rehoused. At present there are over 18,000 homeless people seeking places to live in Camden.
The displaced residents would be forced to bid for their replacement homes amid these thousands of competing claims.
In spite of this, the council has decided to deny the Maiden Lane estate residents any vote at all over the demolition of their homes.
Our campaign (www. MaidenLaneEstate.org) opposes this tooth and nail. We demand the right of the residents to have a block-by-block ballot to decide their own futures. This should be organised by a body we can all trust such as the Electoral Reform Society.
Anything less and the council would be flying in the face of the democratic rights of the residents.
Dr Peter Preston
Save All Our Homes Campaign
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