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Estate sell-off disgrace
• LETTERS from residents of NW6 and NW1 draw attention to the Liberal Democrat- controlled council, with their Tory underlings, selling empty council homes raise grave concerns about their real intentions towards council housing.
To put a flat in Harrington on the Regent’s Park estate up for auction is nothing less than disgraceful. The eight older blocks were in a deplorable state by the mid-1980s, but that changed when the then Labour council spent £6million on estate improvements.
The results, apart from a trebling of the Labour majority at the 1990 elections, were obvious: new roofs and windows, cladding using a scheme perfected in Sweden, no exactly known for its mild winters, efficient heating systems, new wiring and more.
No flat among the eight blocks is in such a state of disrepair that the current council needs to flog it off, at a time of depressed housing prices or indeed at any time.
If places like Harrington can be sold to the private sector, what danger for even more desirable council properties, such as a Brunswick Centre or the mansion blocks off Tottenham Court Road?
Dave Horan
Leighton Grove, NW5
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