London, UK, 6th October 2016. Campaigners at RIBA as people arrived for the Stirling Prize award pointed out that one of the shortlisted projects, Trafalgar Place, was built on the demolished Heygate Estate, which they say was 'stolen from the people' and hundreds of social housing tenants and leaseholders evicted and the site sold at one tenth of its value to the developers. Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
London, UK, 6th October 2016. Campaigners at RIBA as people arrived for the Stirling Prize award pointed out that one of the shortlisted projects, Trafalgar Place, was built on the demolished Heygate Estate, which they say was 'stolen from the people' and hundreds of social housing tenants and leaseholders evicted and the site sold at one tenth of its value to the developers. They held their own ceremony outside, and after a number of speeches awarded the Architects for Social Housing 'O J Simpson Award for getting away with murder' to drMM Architects for this project. Prominent among the protesters were those from the Aylesbury estate, next door to Heygate, where Southwark Council are attempting a similar act of 'social cleansing', replacing social housing by properties for the wealthy and overseas investors. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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