{"id":299669,"date":"2017-03-19T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-labour-led-lewisham-council-attempt-land-grab-involving-football-ground\/"},"modified":"2017-03-19T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T00:43:08","slug":"uk-labour-led-lewisham-council-attempt-land-grab-involving-football-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-labour-led-lewisham-council-attempt-land-grab-involving-football-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Labour-led Lewisham council attempt land-grab involving football ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK: Labour-led Lewisham council attempt land-grab involving football ground<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Simon Whelan<br \/>\n    <br \/>18 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In September 2016, Lewisham borough council approved a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the land surrounding the Den ground and Community Trust facilities rented by Millwall Football Club. This was part of a major redevelopment of the \u201cNew Bermondsey\u201d area in south-east London.<\/p>\n<p>The redevelopment would involve the demolition of Millwall\u2019s Den ground, surrounding community facilities and swathes of surrounding public housing. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Lewisham\u2019s mayor, Sir Steve Bullock, said in an official statement that the CPO on Millwall\u2019s land \u201cshould not proceed.\u201d Yet at a council meeting only days later, in early February, the order was said to have been only postponed and not cancelled. <\/p>\n<p>The Labour-run council is said to be taking legal advice regarding other avenues for securing the CPO on the Den, and council cabinet members will decide how to proceed after a \u201creview.\u201d <em>Private Eye<\/em> magazine reported that Millwall FC, fearing the worst, are continuing to explore relocation options outside London in nearby Kent. <\/p>\n<p>The plan by Lewisham council to seize Millwall\u2019s ground and sell it on to an offshore-registered developer has clearly only been put on hold. Tellingly, no binding policy change has occurred regarding the CPO, threatening Millwall\u2019s more than 100-year presence in south-east London. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNew Bermondsey\u201d development, like all \u201curban regeneration schemes,\u201d is a policy of gentrification, transforming a historically working class district with large amounts of public housing into a district of upper middle class housing.<\/p>\n<p>A correspondent for the right-wing <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> described newly built Bermondsey apartments as \u201cplush yuppie&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/18\/lewi-m18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK: Labour-led Lewisham council attempt land-grab involving football ground By Simon Whelan 18 March 2017 In September 2016, Lewisham borough council approved a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the land surrounding the Den ground and Community Trust facilities rented by Millwall Football Club. This was part of a major redevelopment of the \u201cNew Bermondsey\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}