We know that Newham’s “preferred” private developers are keen to get their mitts on the market land but in their haste to make bucks and hand over every local asset to the ‘filthy rich’ developers they have have put lives in danger – what a shame.
FoQM bumped into local campaigners who have moved into homes on the new Boleyn Grounds development called Upton Gardens built by Barratt Homes who claim to build “Homes of the Highest Quality”, but sadly the residents are experiencing cladding issues under the fake brick slip façade that they say put their lives in danger and out of pocket.
Since the Grenfell disaster that saw the corporate murder of at least 72 people due to the installation of cheap cladding, we wanted to encourage people to watch ‘Value Engineering: scenes from the Grenfell enquiry’, a play in the style of verbatim that shows how systematic neglect can cost human lives. The scenes from the play look only too familiar considering how responsibility has been outsourced by local Councils across the country. Below is more information about the play:
To promote and preserve a thriving publicly-owned historic street market 