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HENDERSON….ACTION NOT WAFFLE

“Lovely to inspect the refurbished properties on the Sutton Estate with Clare Miller of Clarion and Chelsea and Fulham MP Ben Coleman.

We have come a long way since https://lnkd.in/eUTHVrkK .

The Campaign fought to save the buildings and the social housing floorspace .

Today we visited the refurbished properties which have all been fitted with ground source heat pumps coupled with properly insulated properties , which in turn mean lower fuel bills for residents.

The turnaround from where we were, effectively looking at the demolition of these historical buildings into what we have now .

Fully refurbished net zero homes .”

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12 responses to “HENDERSON….ACTION NOT WAFFLE”

  1. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    Well done, Ian.

    You are a star. I hope you make a comeback as a Councillor soon. I expect you were glad to see that Joe Powell MP made light work of EDC at the election.

    Ground source heat pumps. Gosh. I am surprised that they were suitable for such old tenement buildings but with decent insulation anything is possible, I suppose. Time will tell how they play out with residents.

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  2. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    Ian Henderson and Andrew Barshall saved the Sutton Estate from the wrecking ball. An outstanding achievement. Decent Homes for tenants is what they wanted, not profits for developers.

    I hear Ian was bullied by the local Labour Party. Does anyone know why he was bullied when he achieved so much for social housing tenants?

    What has the Kensington Labour Party done to stop the bullying?

    The remaining bullies have not been expelled.

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  3. Modesta Avatar
    Modesta

    Ian is such a modest man.

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  4. Freedom of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Avatar
    Freedom of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

    Does Kensington and Chelsea bestow the Freedom of the Royal Borough Of Kensington and Chelsea on its Denizens?

    If it does not, it is about time that it did and, awarded Ian Henderson this honour – for earnest, prolonged, and industrious effort in the service of the community, for his determination and sincere commitment to the success of the social housing movement and the local Foodbank.

    I remember when Ian stood as an Independent Candidate in Stanley Ward. He made a commitment to electorate to sort out the TMO. Something that no Labour or Tory Councillor before or since ever dreamed of doing. I believe that Ian could have made inroads to reforming the dysfunctional TMO which blighted so many people’s lives – through bullying tenants. The TMO contributed to 72 people losing their lives.

    I would like to see Ian on the Labour benches in Parliament. Labour should offer him a safe seat when one comes up.

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  5. Sutton Estate Disappointment. Thanks, Ian Henderson. Avatar
    Sutton Estate Disappointment. Thanks, Ian Henderson.

    Unfortunately the refurbished homes are of a terrible quality – I have been inside a few of them. They are still incredibly tiny and some of them only JUST barely meet modern space standards (think having your sofa 40cm away from the kitchen sink).

    It’s very clear that the designers seriously struggled with the limited amount of space they had available to insert extra bedrooms and bathrooms into the buildings. Some of the new layouts are very weird and don’t make full use of the space either, for example a flat on one floor may have a bathroom in one place but the flat directly beneath would have an empty open closet type area leading to a tiny windowless WC. The quality of the materials used is very poor.

    Nothing has been done with the open space on the Estate either and it turns out not all of the homes are going to be refurbished. Overall this has been a complete failure and the residents have been denied the opportunity of larger, brighter, modern homes for the sake of a few extra private buyers and tenants moving onto the estate to finance all of this.

    I feel sorry for the residents of the estate as this means the opportunity for another regeneration is likely completely lost for at least the next 60-70 years. Such a pity.

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    1. Was Emma Dent Coad the architect/ designer for the new housing scheme at Sutton, Chelsea? Avatar
      Was Emma Dent Coad the architect/ designer for the new housing scheme at Sutton, Chelsea?

      Was Emma Dent Coad the architect/ designer for the new housing scheme at Sutton, Chelsea?

      The flats always were poky, typical of flats built over 100 years ago, but people lived there quite happily. I knew the Sutton Estate and its residents in Chelsea about twenty years ago. There was a contentment amongst the people who had lived there some for forty years plus.

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  6. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    Sounds like Coad writing “Sutton Estate Disappointment. Thanks, Ian Henderson.”

    She always had a problem with Ian. He was more intelligent than her and had charisma. Unfortunately, she arranged for moderate hard working talented Councillors that did not want Corbyn’s hopelessly devoted puppet standing for Kensington again, to be shafted.

    Good riddance to the racist socialist.

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  7. . Avatar
    .

    Does anyone know what happened to EDC’s PH.D in Architecture?

    I know that she shelved it when she got in to parliament but that was in 2017. All these years later, it has died a natural, we never hear mention of it anymore.

    Someone told me in the pub that she put it on the fire after shelving it. I don’t know if that is true or not. I really can’t see her burning all those years of painstaking research in the pursuit of academic brilliance.

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    1. Hilarious. Avatar
      Hilarious.

      You make me die.

      “She put it (the Ph.d) on the fire.”

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    2. A. Trot Avatar
      A. Trot

      If I had a penny for every left winger who started a Ph.D and never finished it, it would clear the National Debt and, there would be money left over money for social housing.

      So many Marxists undertake this expensive course of study instead of getting a job. Proletarians and the lumpenproletariat have to participate in the labour market so that capitalists can exploit them.

      Most of these left wingers manage to get funding from various sources- in former times from state funded bodies.

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  8. Miss Trotwood Avatar
    Miss Trotwood

    Emma Dent Coad went to the Sutton Estate with a tape measure in hand in order to measure the flats and complain that they were not big enough. She measured the gap between someone’s sofa and the kitchen sink unit and provided this as evidence about how small the flats really are.

    She tried to implicate Ian Henderson in the Housing Association’s decision not to make the flats bigger. THIS WAS NOT HER MOST INTELLIGENT MOVE:-

    (i) Ian Henderson had nothing to do with the Housing Association’s decision about the size of the new flats.

    (ii) The sofa that was up against the kitchen sink was clearly too big for the flat in question. You cannot stop tenants choosing settees for kitchens even settees that are too big.

    I was reading Delia Smith’s recipe for a fluffy omelette in her book ‘How to Cook.” Delia says “Size Matters” in the relation to the size of the omelette pan.
    Size matters about the length and width of sofas too.

    Nice one, Emma.

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  9. Miss Trotwood rides again Avatar
    Miss Trotwood rides again

    Good to see Miss Trotwood is back.

    The Return of Miss Trotwood is welcome. Sonne les matines!

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