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Don't understand this view. For a start clearing up the area to make it buildable cost somewhere in the region of £1bn. If you are harking back to a time when i
by easytiger 4y ago
Don't understand this view. For a start clearing up the area to make it buildable cost somewhere in the region of £1bn. If you are harking back to a time when it was an undesirable wasteland I can't agree that that constitutes a better world.
Much of London complaining about gentrification is complaining that the postwar desolation of London was a good thing; because that's what they are "benefitting" from.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoThe displaced people still have to live somewhere, even if the bougies like to pretend otherwise.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoThere's no "displaced" people if the space was unused for 40 years.
- ChrisKnott 4y agoIt wasn't even residential it was an industrial area
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- lmm 4y agoEveryone has to live somewhere. The idea that those who were lucky enough to be born somewhere that's become desirable are entitled to live there forever at low cost, while those who were born elsewhere can never be allowed to buy a home there, has always struck me as odd.
- mmarq 4y agoYes, that area was an obscene wasteland, right in front of that monstrosity on the other side of the river: Churchill gardens. Before the power station was renewed, the only place with something to do in the entirety of the Wandsworth borough was Northcote road (and 15 years ago not even that).
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