A developer has fenced off social housing residents from a playground outside their homes. This is society at its most mean-spirited
One playground for the children of the rich, another for the poor.
It’s hard to think of an idea more crassly offensive than a supposedly mixed housing development where even toddlers are deliberately segregated by their parents’ salaries; where small children have to be told they can’t play with their friends on the swings their flats actually overlook, because that’s not for the likes of them. But that is what appears to have happened at the Baylis Old School development in south London, where an impenetrable hedge separates the owner-occupiers’ kids playground from the narrow strip allotted to families in social and affordable rented housing in the same block.
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