05/12/2007 - Communities Against Demolition - Anne Power, LSE Housing, CASE; Annexes: Adam Wilkinson, SAVE Britain's Heritage; Martin Edwards, Barrister (How to Resist a CPO); and Planning Extracts.
Findings from a Workshop at
Trafford Hall, the National Communities Resource Centre
27th June 2007
Anne Power, LSE Housing, CASE
CONTENTS
1. Why oppose demolition?
- Why another workshop?
2. What is happening to HMR Pathfinders?
- Government no longer advocates large scale demolition
- Alternatives to demolition are many
- Vehicles for reinvestment are essential
- Urban pioneers can generate renewal
- Area Recovery Plans are urgently needed
- Government must support renewal
3. Community Heritage
- Why save terraced streets?
- What is community heritage?
- Why communities oppose demolition?
- What is characterisation?
4. The legal right to oppose compulsory purchase
- Poor quality Government decisions
- The right of communities to defend local assets
- How to oppose
5. Examples of help for groups opposing demolition
- Looking for alternatives
6. Brainstorming session on ways forward
- Barriers
- Help
7. Redeploying HMR Pathfinder funds to continuing renewal rather than demolition
8. Conclusion
Annexes:
1. Essential steps in developing local improvement areas and outcomes
2. ‘Why save empty homes and semi abandoned streets’, Adam Wilkinson, SAVE Britain’s Heritage
3. ‘The claimant’s view: how to resist a CPO’, Martin Edwards, 39 Essex Street
4. Extract from Court of Appeal: 24th September 1982. Lord Denning M.R., Watkins L.J. and Fox L.J.
5. Extract from Town and Country Planning Act, 1990 as amended by Planning and Compulsory
Purchase Act 2004