Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has been accused of ignoring the pleas of hundreds of his own constituents potentially facing homelessness.
The Labour frontbencher, who only this week unveiled legislation to abolish no-fault evictions, has not yet intervened in the Labour-led council’s decision to demolish 204 flats in his Greenwich patch.
Campaigners have said the MP must take responsibility during a ‘deeply unsettling’ time for residents living in Mast Quay Phase II, a pair of blocks in Woolwich.
Last September Greenwich Council ordered the developer to knock down the flats due to ‘deviations’ from the original planning permission.
Tenants are still moving into the blocks, which Greenwich Councillors have described as a ‘mutant development that is a blight on the landscape’.