Council Plans

- Discourage Removal of low-income communities from the Somers Town St Pancras Ward.


- All new housing is to be built and occupied as a home and not as an investment.
- The allocation of new housing should prioritise the existing young people of local families, concealed households, and the elderly within Somers Town St Pancras.

- Rent and transfer costs of affordable housing should be tied to the average household income in the Neighbourhood.
- Housing development to be subject to an agreement that it remains as affordable housing for people with a local connection for all of time
- Council Infrastructure Plan (CIP) is intended to:
Improve and transform services by realising assets and thus bridging a critical funding gap. This new CIP method of funding “community infrastructure” is highly controversial in a place like Somers Town, where the council is a major landowner. In cases like this, the inherent conflict of interest that exists when the council acts as developer landowner and planning authority leave the neutrality of the council seriously compromised.

Michael Parkes
Community Surveyor

"Instead, our vision is to help communities to help themselves out of disadvantage: We want a framework for sustainable community development, so the existing Somers Town community can stay and get a slice of the action."

"in so doing, reduce pressure on health and social care services"

Michael Parkes
Community Surveyor

Edith Neville Primary School

The current CIP application is focused on the urgent and locally agreed need to rebuild Edith Neville Primary School, a Nursery, and a play facility.