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    • CLAYWOOD FLATS SHEFFIELD: THE IMAGES

    During the period 2000-2003 tenants of three tower blocks in Sheffield were decanted to make way for the demolition of the flats which had been built by Gleason during 1969-70. Demolishing council housing was all the rage in those days, because it would push up property prices, and rising property prices were an integral part of the 'Perpetual Motion Machine' that drove anglo-saxon Capitalism, until 2008. The tenants were given 'home-loss' grants to lessen the impact of moving, and as a result many left furniture and kitchen ware behind. There was even an abonded coffin in a room which had been the roost by pigeons for several months.

    Visiting the flats was quite interesting. The approach to the doors was covered in shattered glass and other debris, and higher up the rooms alternated between those full of pigeon droppings, and some with comfortable beds and furniture which looked quite habitable.

    The was a dodgy but quite artist platter of decadence on display, are a disgraceful waste of natural resources. Abandoned by Sheffield City Council, the tower blocks had been emptied but left open for anyone to view the 350+ flats, half of which still contain furniture, fridges and other belongings. They was three blocks Hight 46 metres (150 ft) 17 Completed 1970 Demolished 2004

    Some of the flats were "Furnish Let" and the beds (adorned with the "Housing Depeartment" logo) and other furniture provided by the council have just been left in amongst all the other crap. Like everything else in this anti-thinking world, bureaucrats use the short term economical perspective: the cost of re-using stuff within capitalism (labour time, etc.) costs more than the actual new stuff itself!

    We bet if the individual tenants took the Council Property along with them, then they'd get charged. Sheffield City Council reserve the right to landfill their own property.