Hammersmith and Fulham’s Labour council says it cannot end the demolition of 760 homes in the borough as part of the controversial Earls Court redevelopment,but a residents’ campaign insists otherwiseIn a letter to every household of the West Kensington and Gibbs Green housing estates, Hammersmith and Fulham’s Labour leader Stephen Cowan has delivered rank news for those hoping and believing that the 760 homes there won’t be knocked down. He’s written that he considers “the scheme for the redevelopment of the estates” agreed by the Conservative administration he ousted in May 2014 was “a rank deal for residents” and hes reminded those residents of his manifesto pledge that Labour would “aim to re-negotiate” the deal whether elected. He’s assured them that he and colleagues have been pursuing this aim for the last 16 months and “employed the best lawyers in the country” to spy for ways of getting out of what their predecessors signed up to with Capital and Counties (Capco) as part of the abominable Earls Court development scheme. But Cowan has also told the residents of “the Peoples’ Estates”:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com