Sentence examples for estate demolition from inspiring English sources

He'd make estate demolition subject to borough-wide referenda, binding on the mayor.

Unless they identify new brownfield sites, it could very quickly turn into a programme of estate demolition".

Entire communities are razed when regeneration follows the standard, developer-led model of estate demolition and replacement, because control is not placed in the hands of the social landlord.

Councillors across greater London have given the green light to estate demolition and gentrification, and allowed developers to build expensive new projects without significant numbers of affordable housing units.

And in place of the current programme of estate demolition, we urgently need the investment and policy for the refurbishment of London's existing council estates – which is entirely lacking from the Mayor's Homes for Londoners programme.

He promised to maximise affordable housing in new developments; to build new social housing and other "genuinely affordable" homes; to enable estate demolition schemes only with resident support and without a resulting loss of social housing; and to "tackle" the scourge of homelessness.

There he repeated his pledge made at last month's London Labour Housing Group hustings that if he became mayor he would use his planning powers to block estate demolitions, except as a last resort.

I'm offering fare cuts for outer London, investment in cycling and people-friendly streets, cleaner air, a renters' union, no more estate demolitions and an alternative to big housing developers.

Johnson has failed to meet his own construction targets, undermined boroughs which have demanded affordable housing from developers and backed plans for estate demolitions which have seen tenants evicted and resulted in a net loss of homes.

Unlike Robin Hood Gardens, which is to be knocked down imminently, English Heritage awarded Byker a Grade II listing in 2007, defending it from the swathe of council-estate demolitions currently devastating communities across Britain – particularly in London, where more than a dozen estates, housing tens of thousands of people on low incomes, are being demolished.

While unsuccessful in saving the estate from demolition, each form of resistance and their interrelation succeeded in exposing the degree to which the regeneration of Elephant and Castle and its centrepiece demolition of the estate, was/is not in the 'public interest' and in discrediting the local authority's 'regeneration spin'.