This Website was created by Residents of White City Estate to stop the Council from ripping out the heart of our estate for their strategy of “accruing long-term assets” and monetizing our community spaces to “generate long-term income”.
These are some opinions your neighbours have shared. You will not find these kinds of comments in the council publicity for their re-development plan.
“The new development will add much noise and dust for the residents living here. We will not accept it!”
“One or Two small blocks or even some houses might be a better plan.”
“Void this project. Project is totally in the wrong location! We have the community facilities. Renovate the existing buildings. It's too big to squeeze into the estate square.”
“I always asked myself why here? Why in the middle of the estate? Is H&F that desperate for the money post Covid.”
“I did state my concerns when they had a model to show outside the primary school last year, not that anyone took notes or names.”
“They didn't really do consultation. They basically don't listen to you if you go to their things and say you're not happy about this stupid idea. Just fob you off and try to persaude the next person to say there's something - anything - that's not too bad, so they can pretend another person aproves. So deceptive.”
“Work will go on for a long time and disrupt the whole Estate. The noise would be unacceptable and a lot of people have to work nights to make a living. We have had to put up with the constant banging and drilling from the work near Tesco's for the last year already. I feel sorry for all the mothers who have newborn children and get no respite during the day or night.”
“Who exactly thinks that a development in the centre of a very dense housing estate is seen as 'desirable' and 'improving the quality of life' of existing residents (and presumably new ones). How is it desirable and how does it add to our quality of life?”
“Thank god someone else actually gives a damn and wants to question this mad plan. I got involved at the beginning of this process - firstly out of anger that this was going to take place - we were going to lose the square and the only piece of open space in the estate (the space provides a welcome relief in what is now beginning to feel like an overwhelmingly claustrophobic neighbourhood and as well as adding more traffic to an already overpopulated borough), and also the deeply irritating tagline 'making good' - I remember storming into the Beresford nursery and saying to the headmistress there, that these people want to destroy an outstanding service and make it 'good'. I didn't like the way that the project was being sold as this was a fait accompli - that this was going to happen whether we liked it or not and it was for our own good.”
The council's lesson for any unscrupulous Developers in the borough.
How the council abused its position
It should not take legal action to make the council do the right thing.
