Residents and campaigners in Southwark marched for new council housing and an end to overdevelopment.
More than 600 people demonstrated from Peckham Square to Elephant and Castle on 1 March, calling for more affordable housing in the borough.
The march was organised by Southwark Housing And Planning Emergency (SHAPE): an umbrella of housing campaigners and activists from across Southwark.
A SHAPE spokesperson said: “It’s time to end developments which take so much from us, and don’t even give us homes we can afford to live in.”
Berkeley Homes has notified Southwark Council that it is lowering its affordable housing offer on the Aylesham Centre site from 35% to 12%.
This would reduce the number of affordable homes built on the site from 270 to 77.
Cabinet Member for New Homes and Sustainable Development for Southwark Council, Cllr Helen Dennis, said: “Wherever possible, we proactively negotiate an increase in the affordable and social rent components of a scheme.
“This approach resulted in us securing 338 social rent homes now being delivered on the Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey, the equivalent of a new council estate.
“On the Old Kent Road, over 50% of all the new homes built or currently being built, are genuinely affordable.”
Watch the video below to hear from the campaigners and residents.
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