［報告］コミュニティプラン策定とフォローアップ――ロンドンの2つのラテン・コミュニティに見るジェントリフィケーションへの対応

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事前の指定質問から

事例1：〈Save Latin Village〉キャンペーン

事例2：〈Latin Elephant〉の活動

運動側が主体となったコミュニティ・プランの策定・推進

“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.”

“【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.”

〈Latin Elephant〉：センター封鎖後のアフターフォロー

まとめにかえて――共通点と注目すべき点

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【ディスカッションのなかでの話題】誰にとっての「活性化」？

【ディスカッションのなかでの話題】アーカイヴィングの重要性

“Some local people actively opposing but also writing a lot about the regeneration & gentrification of Southwark that's happened over the last 20 years”

【ディスカッションのなかでの話題】自然環境とのつながり

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“【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】A lifeline has been thrown to traders of the UK’s only surviving Latin market earmarked for demolition for flats.”

“【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.”

“【見出し】Traders at the Latin Village market have driven out a property giant, sending a clear message that the old model of regeneration is broken”

“【Caption】The disastrous proposals for the Elephant and Castle area in London will destroy entire communities and cultures”

“【Caption】Developer Delancey’s plans for Elephant and Castle’s shopping centre risk making the multicultural community just like everywhere else, say traders”

“Mixed feelings as icon of working-class London and Europe’s first ever large indoor retail centre makes way for development”

“The gentrification of London’s Elephant and Castle centre has been fought over for decades. It’s local people who will lose out”

“【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.”

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