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Council to name more estates up for demolition

A NORTH London council is set to announce today which homes it will demolish next during an event promoting the area’s “regeneration.”

Campaigners will protest outside the the council’s Tottenham Conference, where council officials and developers are promoting the council’s corporate plan.

Council tenant Paul Burnham said that further plans to sell council flats had left remaining stock unaffordable as prices go up and even double for new builds.

“What a disgrace, when already 4,000 homes on and around council estates are set for demolition,” he said.

“We need more and better council housing that is decent, secure, and really-affordable for local people.

“There is no concern at all for who can pay these kind of rents in London.”

The local Defend Council Housing campaign group argued that in recent documents the council no longer published the names of estates due for demolition in order to hinder public opposition to their plans.

Haringey Council said that the allegation was “completely inaccurate” and that terming the regeneration plans as social cleansing was “unacceptable and offensive.”

A spokesman for the council said: “It is simply wrong to claim that a single family will be forced out of Tottenham.

“In our High Road West proposals, where redevelopment takes place, all secure council tenants would be offered a new, modern home at the same social housing rent.

“It is simply counter-productive for a community event — which will celebrate Tottenham’s many fantastic businesses and voluntary groups and offer residents the chance to find out more, ask questions about and get involved with regeneration — to be targeted in this way.”

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