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Aylesbury: Hundreds tear down security fences
HOUSING activists and tenants opposing the demolition and “social cleansing” of a south London council estate have dismantled parts of a £140,000 security fence put up to prevent their continued occupation of the threatened buildings.
Campaigners have occupied parts of the Aylesbury estate on three occasions in the last two months in protest at the demolition plans.
In response Southwark Council erected a 700-metre ring of steel round part of the estate and installed round-the-clock security.
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