Recent events: Housing Seminar and London 2012
Date: Thursday 12th November 2009, 10am -12.30pm
Venue:East Thames Housing Office, 29-35 West Ham Lane, Stratford E15 4PH
Concerns about the potentially limited housing legacy of London 2012 have been vociferously articulated over the last three years. Initially concern focussed on the demolition of existing housing; the relocation of traveller sites and the potential gentrification of this area.Questions were also raised about the impact of rising house and rental prices on Stratford’s existing residents.Concern was also raised about what appeared to be a slowly diminishing commitment to affordable housing both as a proportion and in total numbers of the overall scheme? Would the area become another Canary Wharf characterised by social polarisation and exclusion?
However, the credit crunch has created real challenges for the potential housing legacy and as the private sector has increasingly withdrawn from the scheme, concern has shifted from gentrification to the possibility of the creation of ‘slum’ housing characterised by urban decline.
How then can we ensure that the athletes village becomes a place that is cutting edge? Embracing the best features of urban design and actsas an exemplar for urban regeneration projects more generally, attracting ‘mixed communities’in terms of age, income and ethnicity, as reflected in the intial applications and ambitions for the project.
The London East Research Institute invites a range of stakeholders to attend a roundtable discussion to consider how this might be achieved.
Agreed keynote speakers include:
Penny Bernstock, Author, Regeneration Game, in Olympic Cities, Neighbourhood Watch
Dave Smith, Housing Advisor, London citizens
Ralph Luck, Director of Property, ODA
Michael Edwards, Bartlett School, UCL
RSVP to P.bernstock@uel.ac.uk
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