RIGHT TO THE CITY: AN ANGLIA SQUARE FOR PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged Anglia Square, Angrier Square, capitalist class, cities, class politics, Columbia Threadneedle, David Harvey, featured, gentrification, Grenfell tower, Henri Lefebvre, heritage, housing, local campaign, norwich, Norwich City Council, redevelopment, right to the city, Robert Jenrick, urban, urban regeneration, Weston Homes, working class.

by Yali Banton-Heath

For the past 8 years the future of Anglia Square – a 1960’s-built shopping complex in Norwich’s north city – has been a contentious local concern. In 2018 Norwich City Council approved a £250 million development planning application submitted by asset management group Columbia Threadneedle, who bought the site in 2012, and property developers Weston Homes. The proposal included plans for a new shopping centre, hotel, cinema, and 20-storey apartment block. After receiving over 700 objections, which collectively led to a government inquiry, earlier this month Secretary of State Robert Jenrick officially rejected the plans, on the basis that they “did not protect and enhance the heritage assets of the city”.

LAST PICKINGS AND LOST GRADES FOR BTEC STUDENTS

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, BTEC, class, classism, contextual offers, coronavirus, education, elitism, exam boards, exams, featured, GCSEs, grade moderation, Grenfell tower, Hampton Common, higher education, Highers, london, POLAR4, postcode lottery, Predicted grades, regional bias, school, Scotland, SEN, stereotyping, UCAS, working class.

by Kasper Hassett

After the government’s U-turn on GCSE and A-level moderation, widespread celebration has broken out among student and teaching communities alike. But, drowned out by the cheering, a yet unsolved problem remains: the injustice and uncertainty for those taking BTECs, who have been left behind in the race to secure places at chosen further and higher education institutions.

PREDICTED GRADES – THE POSTCODE LOTTERY

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, class, contextual offers, coronavirus, education, elitism, exam boards, exams, featured, free school meals, GCSEs, grade moderation, Grenfell tower, Hampton Common, higher education, Highers, Kensington, london, POLAR4, postcode lottery, Predicted grades, regional bias, school, Scotland, SEN, stereotyping, UCAS, working class.

By Kasper Hassett

Last week, young people across Scotland reached the end of years of schooling and were presented with their final grades. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, these results were based not on a summer exam series, but on predicted grades from teachers and subsequent moderation by examining bodies. As many as a quarter of grades were lowered, hitting working-class pupils in poorer regions and schools the hardest. Further south, A level and GCSE students are still awaiting similarly-calculated results, due for release on the 13th and 20th of August respectively. But, with individual pupils’ futures at the mercy of wildly varying school averages, the most disadvantaged students are facing even more barriers to higher education.

THE RIGHT TO RIDICULE: SATIRE AS PROTEST

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged accountability, boggart, Boris Johnson, Brexit, capitalism, Extinction Rebellion, featured, fields of wheat, Get Ready For Brexit, Grenfell tower, Have I Got News For You, humour, jacob rees-mogg, led by donkeys, Mock The Week, politicians, politics, power, propaganda, protest, rhetoric, right wing media, satire, The Mash Report, theresa may, Tories, TV, uk.

By Jess O’Dwyer

“There is a political power in laughing at these people.”

So say Led By Donkeys, a “Brexit accountability project” created by four friends who wanted to “[channel] frustration into action and [hold] politicians to account with a bit of humour.” The group go around the country putting up billboards with quotes or Tweets from pro-Brexit politicians, as well as projecting or broadcasting previous interviews on Brexit. This is to show a side-by-side comparison of their changes in stance, highlighting contradiction and hypocrisy.

GRENFELL & BRITAIN’S SOCIAL HOUSING CRISIS

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged borough council, class, cuts, fire, fire safety, gentrification, Grenfell tower, house prices, Housing and Planning Act, housing estates, Kensingtion & Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, Labour, Lakanal house, landlords, london, politics, private housing, private renting, rent, social housing, Southwark, student accommodation, students, tenants' rights, Tories, W11.

by Robyn Banks

CW: discusses the Grenfell tower fire

I grew up in social housing. The estate I lived in was split between those who were lucky enough to own their house and those who relied upon housing associations to provide accommodation for them. The latter group, which includes my family, found that their houses were painted an obnoxiously bright yellow, for no other reason than to make those houses easily identifiable to the housing association and the rest of the neighbours. It was a big bright mark to ensure it was known that you lived in social housing.

Grenfell tower

RIGHT TO THE CITY: AN ANGLIA SQUARE FOR PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT

LAST PICKINGS AND LOST GRADES FOR BTEC STUDENTS

by Kasper Hassett

PREDICTED GRADES – THE POSTCODE LOTTERY

By Kasper Hassett

THE RIGHT TO RIDICULE: SATIRE AS PROTEST

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