Plans accepted for UK’s first girls’s-only tower block in London

By India Today World Desk: Planners have accepted the designs for what will in all probability turn into the UK’s first ever girls’s-only tower block. The tower block with 102 flats will in all probability be in-built West London by a housing affiliation based mostly in 1920 as part of the suffragette movement, acknowledged a report by The Guardian.

The property’s landlord, Women’s Pioneer Housing (WPH), acknowledged each home will in all probability be designed notably for women and facilities will embody a deep balcony, barely lower kitchen work surfaces and air circulation to verify comfort for menopausal girls.

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It added that the 15-storey tower will provide properties for low rents to girls who face inequality, abuse and disadvantages inside the housing market. Tenants usually tend to embody victims of house abuse and black and minority ethnic girls who face a giant pay gap, according to The Guardian.

As per the foundations set by the WPH, tenants need to be single women and men will solely be able to reside inside the tower block within the occasion that they modify right into a tenant’s companion. The solely method a sole tenant could be male is that in the event that they’re the grownup child of a female tenant and inherit the tenancy.

The tower will even current housing for transgender girls, along with people wanting to bear gender reassignment. However, males who cross-dress, transgender males, and anyone with a recognized historic previous of male violence in the direction of girls or children will not be allowed contained within the property.

However, all is not going to be successfully for the enterprise as a variety of the current tenants could uncover themselves residing elsewhere for years sooner than transferring once more to the tower. Residents knowledgeable The Guardian that a variety of licensed circumstances are underway arising from disputes over rehousing.

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Some locals moreover argued that such a extreme focus of ladies “will put the women at risk” and that “single women would find a high-rise very unpleasant”.

However, Colin Veitch, the director of GRID architects which designed the tower, rubbished the claims and acknowledged, “It’s a very Fifties angle that if a girl goes up three flights of stairs they could faint. It’s ridiculous.”

There are many nonetheless who help the enterprise, saying the tower will current affording housing for women. One explicit individual responding to the planning session acknowledged, “WPH rescued me from abusive and controlling relationships. Without this housing, women like me face an almost impossible challenge.”

WPH could be planning to assemble one different low-rise girls’s-only difficult in Shepherd’s Bush, in west London.

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May 2, 2023