┃地域:Seven Sisters Indoor Market/Wards Corner 【地図】
┃標語:“No to Demolition, Yes to the Community Plan: Latin Village Fights Back!”
┃期間:2003(再開発対象に)〜2021年8月(デベロッパー撤退)〜
┃Developer:グレインジャー[Grainger PLC]
◇2019年4月:英国住宅・コミュニティ・地方政府担当国務長官が開発の「強制発注」を承認
┗ 〈MRG(Minority Rights Group International)〉ならびに国連人権高等弁務官事務所の専門家:少数民族の人権を無視したものであるとして警告
┃10月:王立裁判所前での大規模な抗議行動
┃地域:Elephant and Castle (Shopping Centre) 【地図】
┃標語:“'Love the Elephant, Hate Gentrification”
┃期間:2002(再開発開始)〜2013(〈デランシー〉に敷地売却)〜2020年9月封鎖〜
┃Developer:デランシー[Delancey]
【参考】CorporateWatch2, 2019, "Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre: The Battle at London's Gentrification 'Ground Zero'", Corporate Watch, July 14, 2019, (https://corporatewatch.org/elephant-castle-shopping-centre-the-battle-at-londons-gentrification-ground-zero/).=2019 村上潔訳,「エレファント&キャッスル・ショッピングセンター――ロンドンのジェントリフィケーションの「グラウンド・ゼロ」における闘い」,反ジェントリフィケーション情報センター,2019年11月15日,(https://antigentrification.info/2019/11/15/20191115mk/)
◇ラテンアメリカ系+多様な移民、エスニック系のビジネス拠点。
┃ラテンアメリカ系住人:サザーク区の人口の8.9%を占める
◇再開発:新たなショッピングタワー/高級マンション建設/地下鉄駅入口リニューアル/LCC〔London College of Communication〕(芸大)キャンパス誘致
┃センターだけの問題ではなく近隣の公営団地の閉鎖・取り壊しもともなう→社会住宅不足
◇サザーク区の計画委員会は、アフォーダブル住宅の設定や商店主たちへの対応などの問題について、計画に一定の歯止めをかけてはいた。
┃2018年1月:審議会で反対票が上回る→計画進行が一時中止に
“The West Green Road / Seven Sisters Development Trust was set up in 2008 by four members of the Wards Corner Coalition to represent the shared interests of residents, businesses and groups based in and around Wards Corner.”
┗ ・West Green Road / Seven Sisters Development Trust, 2022, "Statement About Haringey Council's 6 July Announcement About Wards Corner", West Green Road / Seven Sisters Development Trust, July 8, 2022, (https://n15developmenttrust.com/2022/07/08/statement-about-haringey-councils-6-july-announcement-about-wards-corner/).
“【Introduction】The West Green Road/Seven Sisters Development Trust welcomes Haringey Council’s decision to terminate its Development Agreement with Grainger for the Wards Corner site. Grainger’s plans would have demolished historic buildings and the unique Seven Sisters Indoor Market (Latin Village) and displaced existing residents and businesses. Market traders, local residents and local businesses’ 20 year campaign for an alternative Community Plan received national recognition earlier this year, winning SMK’s ‘Best Community Campaign’ award.”
◇大学とも協働して定期的に調査報告書を作成→広くアピール/行政に提言
*https://latinelephant.org/category/publications/
┃『Latin Quarter Elephant & Castle Community Vision』(2015)・The Case for London's Latin Quarter: Retention, Growth, Sustainability』(2016)・『Socio-Economic Value at the Elephant and Castle』(2018)等
◇"Save Latin Village & Wards Corner" (Save Latin Village / 2016-12-13) 【映像】
◇"7 Sisters legal battle: STEP 2" (Save Latin Village / 2017-05-11) 【映像】
◇"Royal Courts of Justice Protest - Tues 8th Oct 2019" (Save Latin Village / 2019-11-05) 【映像】
◇"Latin Village is a place that provides essential mutual aid networks that empower Hispanic community" (Save Latin Village / 2020-04-25) 【映像】
◇"London's Latin Quarter" (Latin Elephant / 2015-12-17) 【映像】
◇"Latin traders risk eviction from Elephant Castle shopping centre" (Latin Elephant / 2017-03-27) 【映像】
◇"Elephant and Castle shopping centre redevelopment halted ― BBC London News" (BBC London / 2018-01-20) 【映像】
“Some local people actively opposing but also writing a lot about the regeneration & gentrification of Southwark that's happened over the last 20 years”
“【Caption】Tottenham’s Pueblito Paisa is a home from home and a vital source of support for the capital’s Latin American community. As it faces commercial redevelopment, locals are fighting back ― through samba”
“【Caption】Campaigners are racing against time to save the UK’s only Latin American market, as the council prepares to make way for luxury flats and a shopping centre.”
“【Caption】There is an ever-growing climate of hostility towards migrant communities across Britain, of which this seems part. More must be done to help such communities”
“【Caption】After a long-running battle with property developers, the residents and traders of North London’s Latin Village are now being forcibly evicted.”/““Out of the rubble, Tottenham’s South American community has created a treasure trove of culture, community, love and life,” he said. “Is the purpose of redevelopment social cohesion of social cleansing? There’s still time to do the right thing.”/“The people, united, will never be defeated!” they chanted, in a struggle that is being seen across the capital. “Save Latin Village!””
“【Exordium】A space filled with sentiment and potent memories has closed its doors for possibly the last time as plans to redevelop Wards Corner become a reality. The community traders and beneficiaries of Seven Sisters’ Indoor market ― all from minority ethnic backgrounds ― have surmounted obstacles unfamiliar to most urban cities, where redevelopment projects in local areas have resultantly found working class groups priced out and displaced from the very grounds where their roots had been anchored. In the last few years leading up to this point, I found refuge in this place as a fellow Londoner and could not help but reminisce over the moments that led up to where we are today.”
“Miss Huxley said that every day the market remains closed, the Latin American community is missing out on vital services and a safe space ― something of particular concern during the pandemic.|She said: ‘If it wasn’t for our campaign and Latin Elephant’s campaign fighting our corner, what would have happened to the Latin American community in this time?|‘We would’ve just been pushed further and further out. This is a process of social cleansing and gentrification.’”
“【Caption】After a 15-year battle, our campaign in north London has rescued a vital community hub from the hands of developers”/“【Quot.】The Wards Corner Community Plan is a viable and coherent answer to this question, which could offer a model for communities across the country seeking to rethink urban change. The late David Graeber ― a friend of the campaign ― once wrote: "The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in our cities.”/“【部分訳】パンデミックを抜け出し、気候危機という厳しい現実に直面している今、持続可能で公正な経済を構築するためには、いかにして・誰のために都市開発に取り組むのかが重要になってくる。「ワーズ・コーナー・コミュニティ・プラン」は、この問いへの実行可能で首尾一貫した回答であり、都市の変革を再考しようとしている国中のコミュニティにモデルを提供できるだろう。私たちのキャンペーンの友人でもあった、今は亡きデヴィッド・グレーバーは、かつて次のように書いた。「世界の究極の隠された真実とは、私たちが作る何がしかのものは、同じように容易に別物として作ることができるということだ」。おそらく私たちの都市ほどこのことがはっきりしている場所はないだろう。”
“Through dedication and perseverance, the Save Latin Village campaign has now finally won council backing for a community plan for the site.|The plan is a community-led, financially viable development proposal, designed around self-management by traders and local people, affordable rents, new community spaces, and reinvestment in the building and in opportunities for the local area. Rather than benefiting shareholders, surplus finances from the restored market ― estimated to total as much as £84m over 60 years ― will be channelled back into the community.”
“【Caption】Developer Delancey’s plans for Elephant and Castle’s shopping centre risk making the multicultural community just like everywhere else, say traders”
“【Caption】Developers will help Pricebusters cover relocation costs after the Elephant Shopping Centre was demolished. Yet the owner says this is not enough.”
“One of the judges of tonight’s awards, judge Gareth Clayton said: “This campaign was very local and very effective. But fighting against issues of gentrification, loss of heritage, and more gives this campaign national significance too.””
“The latest battle on Brick Lane is over the redevelopment of the giant Truman Brewery site that sits in its middle, and where there are plans to put in a tall new office block as well as shops. Local businesses fear, with some justification, that this will mean higher rents but no more customers and the decline of the area. For years, the traders of the Latin Village have been facing the prospect of their site being torn down and rebuilt by a developer ― who originally had no plans to include their market. The developer recently pulled out, and the future of the area is now up in the air.”
“Property development is often at the expense of low income and migrant communities. And when it comes to engaging in the David-and-Goliath-esque battle against such a threat often there isn't a clear-cut "beginning". Instead, you will be joining a long line of campaigns and organisers who have been resisting gentrification since the first rumbles of a displaced fate were felt.”
“It might even have looked to inspiring experiments in London itself, such as the proposed community-led redevelopment of the Latin Village in Seven Sisters, north London ― recently endorsed by the council after a major developer pulled out ― for fresh thinking on how to build “beautiful new neighbourhoods” that empower people rather than exclude them.|If “levelling up” is to mean anything, it has to be the start of a national debate about who does well in the UK economy and how we can rewire it to spread prosperity more fairly. Without this, all that will be levelled up are the profit margins of a select few.”