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Tower Hamlets Council may have to claw £13million out of reserves to keep the regeneration of the Robin Hood Gardens site on course.
Cabinet members will be told next Wednesday (July 1) that the council has "insufficient capital resources" to continue buying-out homes on the Poplar estate without the transfer.
The Government is to stand by its original decision not to list Robin Hood Gardens.
The brutalist housing estate is now clear to make way for the Blackwall Reach project after an appeal by the Twentieth Century Society was dismissed this week.
The War of words is still raging over the future of Poplar's Robin Hood Gardens estate.
But the Government remains tight-lipped on whether it will reverse its decision not to list the brutalist building.
ROBIN Hood Gardens will soon be removed from the Poplar skyline, following the Government's decision not to list the estate last week.
The 214-unit landmark will make way for English Partnerships' Blackwall Reach scheme, which will feature up to 3,000 new homes.
In a special extended report for wharf.co.uk, we look at what the future holds for residents of the 1970s brutalist building, and what plans are on the table to find new homes for the people at the centre of the debate.
BLACKWALL'S Robin Hood Gardens estate will be demolished after the Government chose not to protect the structure.
Culture minister Margaret Hodge backed residents and English Heritage in refusing to list the 1970s brutalist housing development, leaving the way open for English Partnerships to create a scheme for about 3,000 homes on the site.
ROBIN Hood Gardens has moved one step closer to demolition after English Heritage chose not to call for the listing of the Poplar estate.
The conservation group has decided not to recommend special status for the 1970s block, describing it as "neither innovative nor influential" and claiming it "fails as a place for human beings to live".
As the statutory adviser to the government, English Heritage's view will have a significant bearing on the culture minister Margaret Hodge's final decision at the end of June. If Robin Hood Gardens is not listed, it will be demolished to make way for up to 3,000 new homes as part of the Blackwall Reach development.
A CONTROVERSIAL 1970s estate is still heading for demolition despite a campaign to save it.
Tower Hamlets is sticking to its guns over plans for the Blackwall Reach regeneration scheme, which would mean the end for Robin Hood Gardens.
Cabinet members have re-affirmed their decision to approve a rough framework plan for the scheme, which will see up to 3,000 homes spring up north of Aspen Way.
The development just to the east of Canary Wharf would involve the destruction of the ‘brutalist’ estate, a move which has pitched architects and locals into heated debate.
ONE of the world’s most famous architects has backed it – but it seems a 1970s ‘brutalist’ housing estate next to Canary Wharf will soon be history unless it is listed.
The Wharf revealed how Robin Hood Gardens estate in Blackwall was under threat as part of a large regeneration scheme, and now demolition has come a step closer.
Last Wednesday (March 5) Tower Hamlets Council’s cabinet gingerly approved a rough framework plan for the Blackwall Reach project, which would see up to 3,000 homes rise from the rubble of the 1970s structure.
English Heritage has not yet decided whether to recommend the listing of the building to the Government.
BUILDING Design magazine has launched a petition to save Robin Hood Gardens from the bulldozers.
The 1970s brutalist housing estate near Canary Wharf is threatened with demolition as part of the proposed Blackwall Reach regeneration scheme, which would incorporate shops, businesses and 3,000 new homes north of Aspen Way.
But architectural magazine Building Design is spearheading a campaign to save Alison and Peter Smithson’s controversial creation.
