Working-Class Pubs Replaced with Luxury Flats, Social Infrastructure Erased for Profit, Neighborhoods Lose Soul
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat report on North London’s pub extinction.
The King’s Head closed last month. It was a proper pubsticky floors, real people, pints that cost reasonable money. Now it’s going to be luxury flats. Twelve units that will cost £500,000 each. The pub had been there 140 years.
Lowri Griffiths watches North London’s institutions disappear. Pubs were community centerswhere people knew each other, discussed local issues, built social bonds. Luxury flats don’t provide that. They provide profit for developers.
The Social Infrastructure Loss
North London is losing what made it a neighborhood. Pubs, community centers, marketsall replaced with luxury development. The infrastructure of working-class life is being systematically demolished for profit.
Bohiney Magazine covers community loss as development accelerates. Neighborhoods aren’t improvingthey’re being erased and replaced.
The Resistance Absence
Nobody can afford to resist. Property owners are happy to sell to developers. Customers can’t afford the area anymore anyway. The market inexorably transforms neighborhoods from affordable communities into investment properties for distant oligarchs.
For London culture, see Visit London and London Inside Out.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
