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As
a
long
standing
resident
of
Brixton,
it
is
incredibly
upsetting
to
hear
Lambeth
council's
new
Kerbside
Strategy
of
removing
25%
of
all
parking
in
the
borough
across
the
next
5
years.
Brixton
has
been
INCREDIBLY
gentrified
across
my
lifetime
and
this
has
a
particularly
negative
impact
on
the
working-class,
immigrant
communities
which
make
Brixton
what
it
is
so
loved
for
today.
Brixton
is
becoming
a
life-less
hub
for
the
middle-class
and
an
extension
of
areas
in
Central
London
rather
than
the
diverse,
home
it
once
was.
Why
remove
parking
when
it
is
something
locals
need?
Strategies
such
like
these
target
and
disadvantage
the
every-day,
working-class
resident
of
Brixton
who
is
perhaps
not
priviledged
enough
to
be
able
to
cycle
to
destinations
(due
to
childcare/
disabilities)
or
those
who
have
already
spent
their
precious
money
on
a
car,
only
to
find
it
incresingly
difficult
and
expensive
to
use
due
to
Lambeths
heinous
policies
surrounding
road
closures/
parklets
etc...
Just
to
Park
on
Rattray
Road
without
a
permit
for
1
hour
costs
4.44?!
(let
alone
mentioning
the
increasing
prices
of
residents
permits
which
are
extortionate).
That
is
absurd
and
again,
targets
your
average
working
class
family
who
will
not
be
able
to
afford
to
park
in
Lambeth.
This
will
not
be
an
issue
for
the
middle-class
yuppies
who
have
started
to
live/
frequent
in
Brixton.
The
climate
issue
is
a
real
concern,
and
again
is
something
which
negatively
impacts
the
most
marginalised
groups
in
society.
But
strategies
such
as
those
above
to
appease
the
most
priviledged
groups
in
Brixton
(giving
them
a
'lush'
place
to
sit
in
their
free
time
which
is
again,
something
the
working-classes
do
not
have
the
luxury
of)
while
continuously
marginalising
the
most
vulnerable
in
the
area
is
not
the
way.
It
is
heartbreaking
to
see
what
Brixton
is
becoming
and
Lambeth
council
are
criminals
in
my
eyes
for
the
way
they
have
peddled
and
funded
the
gentrification
and
decline
of
Brixton.
Lambeth
council
have
routinely
neglected
their
social
housing
and
then
torn
them
down
in
the
name
of
'regeneration'
only
to
rebuild
them
into
luxury
flats
with
little
to
no
affordble
housing.
Pushing
residents
out.
Lambeth
council
did
nothing
when
the
arches
in
Brixton
were
being
torn
down
by
Network
rail
-
ending
a
vast
range
of
local,
immigrant,
family
owned
buisinesses,
only
to
hike
up
the
rent
by
3x
and
sell
the
units
off
to
plenty
of
middle-class,
yuppie
owned
shops
(which
do
not
reflect
the
needs
or
spending
habits
of
the
origional
locals
in
Brixton).Therefore,
excuse
me
for
not
seeing
the
fact
that
Lambeth
council
have
approved
something
as
holding
any
moral
highground.
Despite
being
a
Labour
counil,
Lambeth
will
do
anything
to
push
out
the
remaining
working-class,
immigrant
communities
OR
make
it
increasingly
unformortable
for
them
to
exist
in
the
very
spaces
their
families
have
lived
in
JUST
to
appease
the
new
middle-class
which
reside
in
Brixton
now.
Instead
of
Lambeth
council
to
commit
to
"many
hundreds
more"
parklets,
they
should
focus
on
serving
the
needs
of
the
very
communities
whose
culture
and
hardwork
has
made
Brixton
the
desireable
place
it
is
today.
I
would
love
to
know
how
Lambeth
council
has
considered
the
needs
of
the
most
vulnerable
in
this
strategy.
Who
they
think
will
frequent
and
benefit
from
the
parklets
the
most.
and
how
they
plan
to
mitigate
the
obvious
negative
impact
this
will
have
on
working-class,
immigrant
locals
that
their
policies
continue
to
alienate.
This
scheme
alienates
the
most
vulnerable
in
Brixton
and
I
wish
people
such
as
yourselves
could
see
beyond
your
selfish
wants
to
understand
that.
The
gentrification
of
Brixton
has
gone
too
far
already,
but
schemes
like
this
are
making
it
harder
and
harder
for
the
average
working-class,
immigrant
in
Brixton
to
enjoy
the
little
left
of
home
they
have
here.
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