Urban Occupation

‘Pure Genius’ has more homes appearing all the time. The first court case in the legal proceedings to evict people from the site in Wandsworth was adjourned on a technicality. Guinness did not seem to know how to describe the location of the occupied land. Though they have now served the writ and have told occupiers that they can expect bailiffs any day. Lock-ons have already started to appear and at weekends there will be barricading, people needed. There will also be a Public Enquiry held the first week in June to question again the application for a Safeway on the site. Permanent residents of ‘Pure Genius’, along with local residents, will go along and tell the enquiry that they do not want yet another supermarket in the area and suggest that the EcoVillage instead be allowed to stay as a far more valuable addition to the community. So far local support and involvement has been very good and all sorts of donations are still coming in.

A piece of land was offered to the people living on site in Wandsworth, by Heritage Estates, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. It is felt that this is not a suitable site to move to as the aim of occupying the Guinness site was to primarily highlight urban dereliction in our cities. For some reason though, Guinness seem keen for the offer to be taken up. There is an open invite for people to go down to the site and check it out for themselves. The site is on York Road by Wandsworth Bridge, London. Plans are afoot for a ‘National No-Guinness Day’. For more information please call The Land is Ours on 01865 722016.