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Visits - more detail

This is to help you select which visits you want on tuesday, which ones you want on wednesday. This page is a long listing as a web page. When you arrive in London you will get a printed copy of this long version so there is be no need for you to print a copy yourself. But there is also a very short listing here.

1 Tuesday Deptford
2 Tuesday Olympic Site
3 Tuesday King's Cross
4 Wednesday Vauxhall and Battersea
5 Wednesday Spitalfields, Shoreditch, Hoxton
6 Wednesday Elephant and Castle > then Kennington Park
Thursday - London Plan hearings as an extra

TUESDAY 26th JUNE
VISIT 1: A tale of two estates. Social housing & regeneration in Depford, South-East London (10.00 - 14.30)

Summary:
A tale of two estates: Silwood is the "heartbreaking" and "shocking" story of top down "regeneration", whilst the Pepys Estate is a bottom-up success story. Incredibly these two estates have been part of the same scheme funded by the 'Single Regeneration Budget' (a central government regeneration fund) over the past 7 years. Residents and community leaders will present their estates and there will be a discussion, hopefully including representatives of the regeneration partners.

Programme:

10.00 Meet at Surrey Quays Tube Station
or
10.15 Meet at Higgins/CSV Training Port-a-cabin on Oldfield Grove (on the left hand side if coming from Surrey Quays tube station: see map!)
Nearest Tube station: Surrey Quays (0.6 km)
Railway station: South Bermondsey (0.7 km)
Buses: 381, 1, 47, 188, 199, 255 and buses to Surrey Quays

10.15-11.15 Introductions, tea and coffee. Presentation about the Pepys Estate by Jessica Leech of the Pepys Community Forum.

11.15- 12.30 Walk around the Silwood estate.
12.30- 13.00 Snacks and tea/coffee at Portacabin.
13.00-14.30 Discussion with residents of the Silwood and Pepys Estates and representatives of the regeneration scheme.

Bring an umbrella in case of rain!
Lunchtime food. We will provide some basic snacks in the port-a-cabin. You are welcome to bring your own food if you prefer.

Tour leader/contact:

Mark Saunders (Spectacle)
mob: +447956934548
email: www.spectacle.co.uk

Links related to the tour:
SILWOOD ESTATE

http://www.silwoodonline.org.uk/regeneration/in-a-nutshell.htm Silwood regeneration in a nutshell
http://www.lqgroup.org.uk/creating-places/regeneration/setr-development/case-study-silwood-estate-lewisham,136,AR.html L&Q Housing Association on the Silwood Estate
http://www.higginsconstruction.co.uk/case_study.cfm?Case_Study_ID=2&Category_ID=1&Sub_Category_ID=1 Higgins Construction: Silwood case study
PRP Architects.co.uk on Silwood
PEPYS ESTATE
http://www.mcad.demon.co.uk/tag2.htm Pepys Estate Tenants Action Group: Archive
http://www.cabe.org.uk/buildingforlife.aspx?bfl=true&contentitemid=1287&aspectid=15 An 'official' view on Pepys Estate regeneration
http://www.pepyscommunityforum.org/ Pepys Community Forum
NEIGHBOURING SCHEMES
New Cross New Deal for the Communities

GENERAL ON THE SINGLE REGENERATION BUDGET (SRB)
The Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund (SRB CF) was introduced in April 1994. It combined twenty, previously separate, programmes designed to bring about economic, physical and social regeneration in local areas. Its main purpose was to act as a catalyst for regeneration in the sense that it would work to attract other resources from the private, public and voluntary sectors in order to bring about improvements in local areas to the quality of life of local people. It was designed to do this by addressing local need, stimulating wealth creation and enhancing the local competitiveness of the area as a place in which business wished to invest and people wanted to live.

There are three principal features to the SRB approach to regeneration:
* Partnership: By encouraging partnerships it was hoped that the SRB would address the often diverse and complex nature of the regeneration problem that embraces economic, social and physical factors.
* Competition: Partnerships had to bid in competition for funds from the SRB CF. It was hoped that competition would encourage innovation and bring partnerships together.
* "Hands-off" management approach: Local partnerships would be responsible for the management of regeneration schemes on the basis of guidance provided by Government Offices for the Regions and periodic performance review. This meant that in submitting a bid the partnership would have to demonstrate that there would be effective management and monitoring arrangements in place.

http://www.urbanforum.org.uk/srb_project.html SRB Wind-down Project

http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1128644 Evaluation of the SRB Challenge Fund commissioned by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. http://www.buildingtalk.com/news/hig/hig111.html Higgins Land £11m Silwood Regeneration Contract. Buildingtalk
Higgins Construction PLC confirms its £11 million contract to develop 90 new homes as the latest phase of the comprehensive £110m Silwood estate regeneration
Higgins Construction PLC confirms its £11 million contract to develop 90 new homes as the latest phase of the comprehensive £110m Silwood estate regeneration, in partnership with the London Borough of Lewisham, London and Quadrant Housing Trust and Presentation Housing Association.

Higgins begins by managing the demolition of two blocks in preparation to build the mix of new flats and houses, all designed by PRP Architects.

The Silwood estate spans the two boroughs of Lewisham and Southwark.

The £110 million programme funded by the Single Regeneration Budget is building 554 new homes, refurbishing a further 119 and providing new community facilities as well as supporting a range of social, educational, economic and environmental projects.
Lewisham Council and residents of Silwood are working with Southwark Council and the London Development Agency, London and Quadrant Housing Trust, Tower Homes, Presentation and Higgins to achieve our shared vision of a stable, inclusive and vibrant community.

http://www2.lewisham.gov.uk/lbl/planning/udp/maps/mapfr012.html Lewisham Council

http://www.kingstairs.com/rotherhithe/ - Committee Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Local History Group

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TUESDAY 26th JUNE
VISIT 2: The impact of the London Olympic Games 2012 on East London: Olympic Area, Clays lane, Hackney Wick (11.00 - 14.00)

Summary:
This tour will investigate the current redevelopment of the area surrounding the future Olympic site for the 2012 London Olympics and the conflicts and struggles arising as a result (displacement, eviction etcŠ). Themes which will be addressed involve: the relocation programme and eviction under the Olympics; the Gipsy community in Clays Lane and the future for travelling communities; the future of community and cooperative housing in Britain; the impact of the Olympics on Housing - a Human Rights perspective.

Programme:
11.00 Meeting with Martin Slavin at Hackney Wick Train Station. Hackney Wick is on the North London train line, which you can reach from the Tube station Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line, one station from King's Cross St Pancras). Try to get the 10.39 train at Highbury and Islington, reaching Hackney Wick at 10.51. Your pay-as-you-go Oyster card is not supposed to be used on the North London train line so you can buy a ticket for that bit of the journey when youy change at Highbury (£1.50)

Detailed route and timetable of the North London Train Line at: http://www.silverlink-trains.com/upload/Timetables/May%2007%20TT/Richmond%20-%20Stratford.pdf

Walk through Allotments

Breakfast
The River Lee
Clays Lane

13.00 Meeting with Julian Cheyne @ Clays Lane Community Centre - Film Projection / Discussion

Stratford, Westfield Development & Continental Railway Land

15.00 Back to King's Cross Station for afternoon visit (see below No. 3).

Tour leader/contact:< Martin Slavin
(+44) (0)7747718875
Massimo Allamandola

Links related to the tour:
http://www.london2012.com/ Official website of the London Olympics
http://www.arup.com/associates/AAH_Projects.asp?strTag=Stratford Arup Stratford City http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/olympics/index.jsp The Mayor's website on the Olympics
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk Debunking Olympics myths
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/402 Martin Slavin's latest campaign
Housing and the Olympics: a human rights perspective http://www.cohre.org/mega-events
LIFE IS LAND Website and Campaign to keep the allotments in the Olympic Park http://www.lifeisland.org/
Documents to be print or read: http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/files/BriefingPaper1-Impact.pdf http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/files/BriefingPaper2-Finances.pdf http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/files/BriefingPaper3-Governance.pdf
A beginners' guide to the social impacts of the Olympics: http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/333 http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/files/London%20Olympics%20Myths%20pt%202.doc
Probable impacts of the Lower Lea Valley Developments (particularly the Olympics phase) on tenants in privately rented accommodation: http://www.hic-net.org/articles.asp?PID=543

To read:

Fact Sheet - Forced evictions and displacements in future Olympic cities http://www.cohre.org/mega-events

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (2012): Since the election of London as the Host City for the 2012 Olympic Games, COHRE has followed the preparations underway in that city, and the impacts on housing rights that are already becoming evident, in particular in the East London area. Already, over five years before the Olympic Games are due to be staged, over 1,000 people face the threat of displacement from their homes, and housing prices are escalating. It is possible at this early stage to predict that, despite there being no reference to the need for evictions in the bid books, construction of the Olympic venues and facilities in London will affect a number of marginalized groups: in particular the poor, low-income earners, residents of public housing, and ethnic minorities such as Gypsies and Irish Travellers.
Foreign students at the East London University Park Village estate were affected by this planned construction even before London had been officially selected as the Host City, with 550 being displaced in July 2005 from their university accommodation under threat of court action. Although it was proposed that these students would be relocated to the Docklands or Barking, this was not a suitable solution for many of the students because it meant living far from their university campus. As a result, many students have been forced into the private housing market.
Most of London's proposed Olympic sites, from north Newham to Manor Park, Leyton, Homerton and Hackney Wick, are sites with a major concentration of relatively cheap private rented housing. This affordable housing is a rarity in a city like London, and is relied upon by thousands of people on low and average incomes. It is widely feared that the Olympics Games will therefore result in a reduction of the total stock of affordable housing in London.
There are concerns that because the neighbourhoods where the Olympic sites are positioned are some of the most affordable in London (for both buyers and renters), they are prime candidates for price escalation, which will drastically affect the current affordability of these areas. For example, much of the Lower Lea area is already a popular buy-to-let investment zone, with a high proportion of tenanted properties.
In order to progress the plans for redeveloping the Lower Lea Valley, the London Development Agency (LDA) has been renegotiating relocation options with residents and businesses currently located in the area. However, these negotiations have taken place under the shadow of a compulsory purchase order (CPO). The LDA issued a CPO for the land to ensure its acquisition from those with whom it could not strike a deal. This CPO issued for the Olympics site is said to be the largest ever compulsory land acquisition programme in England.
The main area affected by the CPO is Clay's Lane, where 430 residents of the Clay's Lane Housing Cooperative were issued with orders to leave by July 2007, as well as 15 families residing at an adjacent Gypsy and Irish Travellers site, who must leave by August 2007. The second key residential area affected by the CPO is a Gypsy and Travellers site at Waterden Crescent, in which 20 Irish Traveller families reside. In total, thirty-five families are to be displaced: many residents are challenging their eviction orders and claim authorities have not had adequate rehousing strategies in place. These families have been given several alternatives to their present site. The proposals involve splitting the community into four smaller sites.
Over the course of the negotiations for the Lea Valley area and the related CPOs, businesses employing nearly 15,000 workers in total were also reportedly forced to move. In Stratford, 300 businesses were evicted in order to use the land on which they operated for the Olympic Park. In order to clear the path for the construction of the Olympic Stadium, companies employing over 5,000 staff were reportedly moved out of their establishments in the Marshgate Lane area. Many of these businesses benefited from their proximity to central London, and the relocation sites offered were over 50 miles away from where they were originally located.

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TUESDAY 26th JUNE in the afternoon: one tour
VISIT 3: The redevelopment of the King's Cross station area: a 20 year struggle.

Summary:
This area around King's Cross and St Pancras stations has been for 60 years the most run-down, blighted, part of central London and for 100 years has had a strong history of socialist and labour politics, social housing production, trade union organisation and militant tenants - with a famous Rent Strike in the 1960s. Large areas of disused railway land in the area had always been looked to by local working class organisations as a potential source for more social housing - for which the need is intense. Some of the land was used in this way until the 1970s when a major area was allocated for the British Library - now complete in at least phase 1.

In the last 20 years the area has been the focus of intense pressures from the property development sector, seeking to transform it from run-down to a glossy corporate business centre associated with a point of maximum accessibility. The expanded St Pancras station will be the London terminus of the Eurostar from November 2007 and the remaining railway land has been granted by the government to the private consortium London and Countental Railways so that the development profits can help reduce state subsidy required for the railway.
Local struggles for a mainly-housing development as an alternative to a 1988 commercial scheme continued until the crash of property markets in the 1990s and were the subject of research by Richard Wolff, Marvi Maggio and Michael Edwards, among others. A new scheme of 2004/5 has now gained planning permission (of a uniquely flexible kind) after a fraught struggle in the last few years. It has been the subject of research by Ståle Holgersen. All these researchers are likely to be with us on the walk!

Programme:
14.00 If anyone is ready at that time, meet at Brunswick Shopping Centre opposite Russell Square tube to look at an intersting 1960s development now upgraded to luxury. This is an optional extra.
15.00 Main meeting-up at British Library courtyard (sun) or foyer (rain)
15.15-1730 Walk through Somers Town, the stations, the railway lands, ending up at the venue for the evening seminar.
Tea + biscuits + seminar at Coopers Lane Tenants Hall, Purchese Street, just north of the British Library
18.00 - 20.00 Open seminar for all members of the Inura conference. Themes not yet decided. But it is planned to give the first voices to those unable to join us in the Brighton Retreat.

Tour leader/contact:
Michael Edwards Bartlett School of Planning / King's Cross Railway Lands Group Email: m.edwards@ucl.ac.uk mobile phone +44 (0)7813 194401

Links related to the tour:
http://www.kxrlg.org.uk/ King's Cross Railway Land Group where a very comprehensive documentation and links page are to be found. The developers for the Railway Lands ("King's Cross Central"): www.argentkingscross.com

NB at 2030h, Dinner has been arranged (for those who put their names down on Monday afternoon) at The Far Side, 246 Pentonville Road, opposite the King's Cross Thameslink Station. Conference pays the food; drinks you order and pay as you wish.

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WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE
VISIT 4: Vauxhall (South London) and the Battersea Power Station area (10.00 - 17.30)

Summary:< This tour includes Vauxhall developments, the new bus station, a riverside walk and presentation on Battersea Power Station from the authority of the subject, Brian Barnes. A picnic in Battersea Park with some local history will be followed by a walk through three distinctive and unusual social housing estates. The tour will end with a presentation on the recent regeneration of Larkhall Park - this is only 5 minutes walk from Stockwell Studios, the venue of the party scheduled in the evening.

Programme:
10.00 Meet at Vauxhall Bus Station near Vauxhall tube station entrance. Street level unless very bad weather.
10.20 Riverside walk to Battersea Power Station (Bus ride also possible if bad weather)
12.00 Meet at Cringle St. Talk Brian Barnes of the Battersea Power Station Community Group.
Walk past Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
Walk through estates. The 1960s Doddington estate was one of the first privatisations of social housing in the 1980s and at the centre of the political scandal involving changing the demographics through selling social housing.
13.00 16 DRCA Business Centre, Charlotte Despard Avenue, London SW11 5JE
13.30 -14.30 Lunch in Battersea Park. There is a cafe in the park or bring picnic.
15.00 Meet at mural Dagnall St. 1880s Shaftesbury: in the 1870s, the area went residential when the Artisans, Labourers and General Dwelling Company housing co-operative built several thousand small Victorian homes on it and, by design, not a single pub. 1890s Queenstown or Park Town Estate. 1960 Westbury Estate. First estate to have entry phones and concierge. Then bus or walk to Larkhall Park.
16.30 Meet at Courland Grove Baptist Hall: History & Regeneration of Larkhall Park by Carl Kowsky, chair of Friends of Larkhall Park
17.30 Walk out of park to Stockwell Studios (venue of party and food) on way to Stockwell tube (Victoria line and Northern Line and Stockwell Bus Garage). or 17.30 Walk out park to Wandsworth Rd then 77, 77a bus to Vauxhall Tube (Victoria line and Vauxhall Bus Garage).

Tour leader/contact:
Mark Saunders (Spectacle)
mob: +44 (0)7956934548
email: mark@spectacle.co.uk
web: www.spectacle.co.uk

Links related to the tour:
ON THE VAUXHALL AREA
Arup Associates
http://www.arup.com/associates/AAH_Projects.asp?strTag=Vauxhall
SkyscraperCity Forums - Vauxhall Tower gets the Nod http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=206977
The Guardian Arts Unlimited: Route master http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1456639,00.html
ON BATTERSEA POWER STATION
Maps http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/
The Powerstation http://www.thepowerstation.co.uk/
Arup Battersea Power St http://www.arup.com/industrial/project.cfm?pageid=3265 http://www.arup.com/developmentplanning/project.cfm?pageid=4695 http://www.arup.com/projectmanagement/project.cfm?pageid=6213
Pictures and information about The Battersea Power Station http://bps.fika.org
Battersea Power Station Community Group http://www.batterseapowerstation.org.uk/ The Community Group campaigns to preserve Battersea Power Station and for a phased development of the site that reflects the needs of the local community. Aerial Photo | Multimap.com http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=europe&scale=10000&X=529000&Y=177500&width=700&height=410&gride=0&gridn=0
Channel PinkFloyd - Save Battersea Power Station http://www.pinkfloydchat.net/battersea.html
Battersea Dogs Home http://www.dogshome.org/
Arup Queenstown Rd http://www.arup.com/associates/AAH_Projects.asp?strTag=queenstown
ON BATTERSEA PARK Battersea Park was opened by Queen Victoria in 1858. Its 200 acres was landscaped using one million cubic yards of soil, dug out during the construction of Victoria Docks.
Victorian London - Battersea Park http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/batterseapark.htm
Battersea Park - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Park
Battersea Park Home Page http://www.batterseapark.org/
Thrive http://www.thrive.org.uk/
Brown Dog affair - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair
Battersea Park Children's Zoo http://www.batterseaparkzoo.co.uk/
ON THE "BATTERSEA IN PERSPECTIVE MURAL" Battersea in Perspective, Dagnall Street (1988) http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/NR/Wandsworth/asp/arts/publicart_detail.asp?id=14
Brian Barnes (artist) - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Barnes_(artist)
ON BATTERSEA HISTORY http://www.milsom.info/Battersea/battersea_Books.htm
ON LARKHALL PARK Larkhall Park http://www.larkhallparkfriends.org.uk
London Borough of Lambeth | Regeneration work begins in Larkhall Park http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/News/PressReleases/PressReleaseArchive/2005/061205LarkHallPark.htm
ON STOCKWELL STUDIOS Annie McCall Heritage Project http://www.mccallheritage.co.uk/
onionbagblog http://www.onionbagblog.com/

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WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE
VISIT 5: The East End & the edge of the City. Creative industries, immigrants and gentrification (10.00 -14.00).

Summary:
This tour will take us through the edge of the City of London (Liverpool Street Station/Broadgate) to Spitalfieds, Brick Lane, Shoreditch and Hoxton. Throughout its history, it has been an area of constant immigration, with every migration wave changing the character of the area. In the latter part of the 17th century Huguenot refugees fled France and established a major weaving industry in and around Spitalfields. In the19th century the area was massively populated with Jewish families who had found a haven from pogroms in Europe and many became traders. The potato famine led to an influx of men from Ireland, bringing in workers to build the nearby docks. By the end of the 19th century Hoxton, Shoreditch and Whitechapel had descended into massive poverty. The whole area was a huge sprawling slum, ridden with crime. It was also home to many radical political and trade-union movements! In the 20th century the area became home to Bangladeshi immigrants, who arrived as seamen in the 20s, 30s and 40s. Bangladeshi settlers have contributed to the richness of life in the borough, many of them establishing restaurants in and around Brick Lane. The early 1990s saw an influx of artists, on the lookout for cheap studio space. This led to bars and clubs popping up, followed by a surge in nightlife activity and a noticeable gentrification of certain areas (Hoxton/Shoreditch). The area around Liverpool Street Station was massively developed through corporate high-rise architecture in the 1980s and more recently.

Programme:
10.00 Meet outside Liverpool Street Station, on the Bishopgate Exit, close to the Great Eastern Hotel (up the escalators, we'll stand on the right!)
This tour will take us through the edge of the City of London (Liverpool Street Station/Broadgate) to Spitalfieds, Brick Lane, Shoreditch and Hoxton.
Some of the themes addressed by the tour:
- migrations and migrants around Brick Lane: a tale of cosmopolitan London
- the development pressures of the City on its eastern edge (Spitalfields Market)
- artists, cultural industries and urban redevelopment
- the gradual gentrification of Hoxton /Shoreditch / Brick Lane and the conflicts arising with existing residents
- 'ethnic tourism'
- pressures on social housing

Tour leader/contact:
Claire Colomb and Sonia Arbaci, the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
Mobile phone Claire: (+ 44) (0)7906 734 166
E-mail: c.colomb@ucl.ac.uk; s.arbaci@ucl.ac.uk

Links related to the tour:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_London,_England
Old Spitalfields Market:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spitalfields_market http://www.smut.org.uk/index.asp http://www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com/ http://www.visitspitalfields.com/ http://www.spitalfields.co.uk/index.cfm?SACSiteAreaId=1&sacid=56&list1=y http://www.spitalfields.org.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,762503,00.html http://society.guardian.co.uk/urbanregeneration/story/0,8150,495460,00.html
Shoreditch Our Way (ShOW) - the New Deal for Communities www.renewal.net/Documents/RNET/Case%20Study/Shoreditchourway.doc http://www.myhoxton.net/property-shoreditchourway.htm Ethno-tourism in Brick Lane http://www.tourismnetwork.org/diversedestinations.pdf

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WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE
VISIT 6: Elephant and Castle & Kennington Park

Summary:
Very close to central London, in the London Borough of Southwark, this area was profoundly restructured after WW2 around a masive highway scheme with pedestrians consugned to subways and the surrounding areas a major concentration of council housing and Britain's first indoor shopping centre.
Public authorities and various 'partnerships' of councils and private firms have tried to intervene, partly to deal with many decades of disinvestment and partly to exploit the centrality of the location to make profits.
The main focus of the walk will be to explore some of the tensions and struggles which surround regeneration proposals, notably the demolition of housing and its replacement and the threats to a thriving ethnic minority retail and services sector which now occupies the shopping centre but is seen by developers as too downmarket to remain.
Programme:
10.00h assemble at Elephant and Castle shopping centre (Bakerloo line or Northern line, or many many buses). Precise meeting place is the colombian cafe opposite lloyds bank on 1st floor
Then meet one or more of the activists in the traders association who are organising to deal with the developer Saint Modwen which plans a redevelopment of the shopping centre.

Leave to walk to the Heygate estate which is scheduled for demolition and to areas where displaced tenants are supposed to be moved ('decanted') to. These are mostly places where estates with large grass areas will be rebuilt or 'in-filled' with new buildings at the expnse of the open space.

1330 Lunch (men and women at separate tables, but all welcome) at Bengali women's lunch club in the Rockingham Estate Community Hall. Richard Lee has to leave you there to go to City Hall. He will explain how to make your way after lunch to join with others at Kennington Park

13.30 Lunch - preferably at the Café in Kennington Park for those not coming from Elephant and Castle above.

14.30 Meet at the Café in Kennington Park. There is only one cafe which is easily seen as you walk through the park from North to South. When entering the park from Kennington Park Road after coming from the Elephant, proceed to walk south through the park. The old Victorian refreshment house will be seen on the lefthand (east) side.

Kennington Park walk by Stefan Szczelkun.
150 years ago Kennington Common was the south London Speakers Corner attracting huge crowds, it was also the south London Tyburn, a key spot for public execution and display on main road to London Bridge. Games were also played on the level and fertile flood plain, cricket itself may have been invented there. But then a catastrophic event happened. The common was enclosed, in response to the Great Chartist Rally of 10th April 1848, and the space turned into a Royal park and controlled space. This history continues to echo through the current park and the local micro politics that buzz around it.
Kennington Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington_Park

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THURSDAY 28 JUNE

The main programme has the INURA Annual General Meeting taking place at the Bartlett UCL in the morning, followed by a brunch there and then a coach taking all those who are going to the retreat to Brighton. The coach leaves at 1400h and both the coach and the brunch are paid for within the conference fees.

However those remaining in London (not attending the retreat) or who are willing to make their way to Brighton independently (and at their own cost) later in the day, might wish to attend the
Examination in Public of the 'Further Alterations to the London Plan', one part of which is taking place on 28th and 29th June at City Hall. Michaelk Edwards and Richard Lee who are selected to participate formally in these days' debates will be happy to breif any Inua members who attend - during the lunch break if they can or at the end of the session. The proceedings start at 10.00 and continue to 1600-1700 (flexible) with a lunch break at about 1300h. Members of the public can enter and leave at any time and it is, of course, free of charge.

This is a chance to see in action a distinctive UK variant of the public hearing/inquiry.

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