PECKHAM NOT FOR SALE!

                   STOP THE AYLESHAM DEVELOPMENT AND BEAT BERKELEY HOMES

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                                                        Peckham V Berkeley Homes

 Berkeley Homes are threatening to destroy the heart of Peckham and its community by demolishing the Aylesham Centre and turning it into luxury flats with just 50 social homes out of 867 new properties.

We are Aylesham Community Action and we are fighting back, just as we always have done.

To become a party in the appeal at the Inquiry in October, we need at least £50,000 for a top notch legal team, to give us the best chance to beat Berkeley. It is a fight that can be won, but only with your help, with the whole community behind us. So please donate to our legal fund. Any amount, big or small helps.. and if you can’t donate, please share our message!

Peckham is one of the most diverse parts of London; a traditional working class area which has provided opportunities for people from all over the world to make a home and earn a living for themselves.

 Thousands of residents have posted their objections to Berkeley’s proposal - articulate, passionate and angry views from across the generations.

They all agree! Berkeley’s Aylesham development is too big, too tall and does not give Peckham the affordable housing it needs.

In the 16 densely packed blocks up to 20 stories high, just 50 of the 867 new homes are allocated as social housing.

Southwark Council agrees that Berkeley’s proposal is a bad one. They listened to local residents and resoundingly rejected their plans.

Our local MP Miatta Fahnbulleh also agrees -

“this is the human cost of the housing crisis, children robbed of childhood.” She has told Berkeley to listen to local people, or they “will find this community united in opposition - and me by their side.”

But Berkeley are ignoring all this. They want the government to overrule the council and force the development through. At the planning inquiry in October, Southwark Council will have to defend its decision. We are not going to just stand on the sidelines though, we need to keep up the pressure!

Please help us by making a donation and share across your network!

With your help we can make sure the community voice is heard,  just as the council heard us, loud and clear enough for them to agree with us and say NO to Berkeley

 The flats Berkeley want to build will do nothing for families in inadequate housing or on the council waiting list, nothing for local young people who want to stay here, nothing for the local traders who make a living here, and nothing for the people who have their roots here.

It takes generations to build a community…

We will not allow Berkeley to destroy it for profit.

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YOU HAVE THE POWER TO HELP US WIN!

ACA is pleased to be supported by planning solicitor Jed Holloway and the Southwark Law Centre, and represented by barrister Hashi Mohamed of Landmark Chambers, listed as one of the highest rated planning barristers in England and Wales