Old Kent Road Area Action Plan Screening + Consultation Workshop, Ormside Projects
Join us to watch, discuss, and take action.
This event is an opportunity to meet and submit a response to Southwark’s Area Action Plan consultation before the deadline on April 11th.
We’ll be screening a selection of community films made in the 1970s, each offering a view into how London neighbourhoods responded to proposed redevelopment plans.
The programme looks at the fight to save neighbourhoods from profit-driven property developers, and how we might let spaces live rather than be subjected to the logic of commercial extraction. It explores methods of soliciting public opinion and modes of expressing the public’s ideas for the future, foregrounding knowledge that is local, contextual, and human in scale.
The event invites us to challenge top-down bureaucratic planning and ask: how can redevelopment reflect and benefit the communities who already live there? Because a sense of community isn’t easily recreated once it’s gone–it’s subtle, takes years to grow.
Doors open at 7pm
Part 1: screening
Part 2: meeting/workshop with people on hand to explain the issues and the implications of the plan
