Save Dorchester Court
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We Need Your Help Now – Join the Fight to Save Our Homes and Our Heritage!
Our freeholder is trying to push through a planning application that requires renters to be evicted for the work to take place. We need to pay for a barrister, solicitors and expert witnesses to represent our side at a planning appeal, in order to try and put a stop to these plans. We will be putting in our own money, but it won’t be enough.
The countdown is on for our community at Dorchester Court—a striking 1930s Grade II listed estate, home to 250 residents, from toddlers to nonagenarians (that’s people in their 90’s!), in a truly unique, community-centred environment.
Today, our homes and our heritage are under threat, and we need your support to stand up for what’s right!
For years, Manaquel Co Ltd—a multi‐millionaire freeholder—has collected around £1.5 million a year while neglecting the very place that countless families call home.
Our once-proud estate now shows the scars of crumbling balconies, broken windows, and dangerous lead contamination in our water supply. Rather than investing in essential repairs and safety, this landlord is pushing through a planning application for extravagant penthouses that jeopardizes our community and has already sparked over a thousand objections—the second-most in the borough’s history!
I’m Susie Perring, a leaseholder at Dorchester Court, and I’m calling on you to join us in this pivotal battle. Our fight isn’t just about bricks and mortar—it’s about protecting a living legacy, preserving a community of heart and history, and ensuring that warm, safe homes aren’t sacrificed for pointless penthouses and forced evictions.
We’re asking for your help to raise a minimum of £10,000 to cover our legal fees. Every donation, no matter the size, is a powerful statement that profit must never come at the expense of people, history, or our future. With your support, we can challenge this greedy approach in court and safeguard the place we proudly call home.
Time is short, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Join us now in our fight for justice, community, and the preservation of our cherished Dorchester Court. Donate today and become a part of this historic stand for what matters most!
Thank you for standing with us.
This is a joint effort by the Dorchester Court Residents Association (representing leaseholders) and the Dorchester Court Tenants' Union (representing renters).
All funds collected by this fundraiser will be held by the Dorchester Court Residents Association, committed to defending against action by the landlord
Here are some stories about Dorchester Court in the media:
https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/dorchester-court-herne-hill-carbon-monoxide-lead-drinking-water-cockroach-infestation-b991974.html
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