Carpenters Estate – The Cheese Grater Magazine

“Fuck off, or you are going to have a war on your hands”

UCL’s proposal to build a £1bn “university quarter” in Stratford was passed by a Newham council meeting tonight, much to the anger of residents who currently live on the site. The prospect of home demolitions and mass evictions of Carpenters estate residents is now a little bit closer. Not being able to gain access to […]

Why Were Newham Complaints Not Heard for Eleven Days?

Investigations / 8 October 2012

For background on this story, see CG34 (March 2012) and the September 2012 Welcome Issue. Warren Lubin, chair of the Carpenters’ Residents Steering Committee, and Tony Bird, their independent advisor, unexpectedly turned up UCL today. When they were spotted walking around UCL they told this magazine that they’d tried to meet the Provost, Malcolm Grant,

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