The Post is reporting that planning application is pending for yet another 78 student flats in what they are calling Perry's factory but is better known to squatters as the J.B. Spray. A developer called Trivelles International wants to turn the grade II listed building into yet another identikit batch of student accommodation, no doubt at ridiculous rents to keep the riffraff out. It will join th…

I went to Nottingham's 'Bedroom Tax' demo last week. Saw the odd NCC councillor and apparently at least one MP popped in too.

You might also be aware that NCC has launched it's own petition against it too and, despite the fact that they deserve a long list of "Where were you when...?" questions, I would urge you to sign it.



It's not hard to see NCC's self interest in challenging the bedroom tax…

On Saturday, 2-300 people gathered at Speakers Corner in Nottingham to demonstrate against the coalition government’s bedroom tax. The government policy will see social tenants with a spare room having £40-£80 per month taken off their housing benefit. According to the protesters, “in Nottingham alone 4746 families will be affected by the Bedroom Tax” which “penalises the disabled, single par…

The City Council's five-year housing plan has been cut again. The Council is demolishing 900 homes including the Lenton flats, and several large blocks of flats along Alfreton Road in Radford. Their original plan was to build 500 new homes, which clearly wouldn't be enough to make up for those lost. Now this figure has been cut again to 350 new homes. In other words, roughly 2 in 3 of those being …

As has been reported elsewhere on this site, Council Leader, Jon Collins, and Berridge Councillor Toby Neale, were both very quick to say that the NCH housing scandal affair is all done and dusted, nothing to see here, etc. at a recent consultation meeting. However, new information obtained by what Neale referred to in disgust as "a certain website" (NCCLOLs) paints a rather different picture.

Mi…

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

G4S, the world’s largest security company, have won a £135m public contract to provide accommodation for asylum seekers in the Midlands and East of England and the North East, Yorkshire and Humber regions. The contract will effectively mean the privatisation of housing for asylum seekers, who have previously been housed by housing associations. Campaigners from No to G4S are seeking to challe…

STOP G4S!

“I don’t want a prison guard as my landlord” – Zimbabwean asylum seeker in Sheffield

G4S (Group 4 Security) is the world’s largest private security army and the biggest private UK company with contracts worth £600m for security, managing detention centres, prisons and 675 court and police station cells. It is providing 10,000 guards for the Olympics costing us another £100 mi…

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

On Thursday March 8th NSN took part in its first action. 18 people assembled in town at lunchtime hoping to collectively present a demand from an ex tenant to his landlord for the full repayment of a wrongfully withheld deposit. This was to take place at his place of work, e.on customer services. The tenant entered the building and asked at reception for the landlord to come down to the lobby…

This is NSN's first action! We are accompanying J to take a demand to his landlord and would like to get a good group together to show solidarity. Meet at the corner of Mount Street and Maid Marion Way this Thursday (8th March) at 12.15pm.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Unpaid wages? Denied deposit? Unsafe workplace? Refused repairs?

Don’t let bosses and landlords use and abuse you!

We are a network of working people and tenants who work to defend ourselves through direct action and mutual support. Nottingham Solidarity Network will help you get back stolen wages and deposits, get repairs made, and stop evictions.

Nottingham City Council leader Jon Collins was targeted by anti-evictions campaigners who demonstrated outside his home on Hucknall Road yesterday. Collins was singled out as having made threats to evict the families of those found to be involved in the August riots. Campaigners have also leafleted affected families offering practical support. They call the moves to evict council tenants “spite…

A group of 20 people took part in a demonstration outside the Hucknall Road home of Nottingham City Council Leader Jon Collins today. The protest was a response to Collins’ threats to evict the families of council tenants found to have been involved in the riots, and his Council’s involvement in the Nottingham City Homes  scandal.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham

In the months since the Nottingham riots, anarchists have been trying to kickstart a campaign against the victimisation of whole communities that has been called for by the state. The courts, with encouragement of the government, have been handing out much harsher sentences than usual, and Nottingham City Council leader Jon Collins has called for the families of rioters to be evicted from social h…