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Yes we got the No. of flats on Norfolk Park Wrong.. Image You seem to have plenty of time on your hands inspecting the council properties, squatting etc. Have you ever thought about channelling your energies in a positive way and applying for a job with the council. With your knowledge and ideas of dealing with empty properties I'm sure you would be an asset to any housing department. I think your talents are wasted on the readers of this forum. Sarcasm lowest from of wit etc.. Image..

Hi, We visited about two thirds of the flats over the last week or so and this is what we found... plus some background notes: BLUE "CLAYWOOD" BLOCK 15th Floor Flat 16: Burnt out. 14th Floor Flat 20: Large amount of pigeon ****. 13th Floor Flat 26 & 28: Used by junkies (dozens of syringes and scraps of tinfoil - for taking heroin). Flat 30: Another flat taken over by pigeons! 11th Floor Flat 76 & 78: Two flats filled with junky paraphenalia. 10th Floor Flat 92: Plenty more pigeons (the whole landing of 4 flats being infested). A number of flats were Furnish Let by the council: Flats 86, 82, 138 & 180 were some of the properties on this block, providing fridges, beds, living room furniture, curtains, etc. all of which had been left (in accordance with the contract) by the tenant and never collected by the the council, these items remain in the flats (soft furnishings for junkies and pigeons alike). Starting from the top (15th) floor of each block, it becomes apparent that the council vandals have systematically smashed the ceramic sinks in the bathrooms in every flat. This can't be to prevent squatters from occupying them as there's no running water to use either these or the toilets. Window frames have also been removed in some of the flats on the high floors (which helps the pigeons considerably and further condemns the flats). YELLOW "FITZWALTER" BLOCK 15th Floor Flat 258: Heaps of pigeon **** throughout the flat. 14th Floor Flat 274: Furnished Let + pigeon **** 13th Floor Flat 300: "Disco inferno" mad flat with jazzed out colours. 12th Floor Flat 306 & 304: Pigeon **** - the whole landing is a mess as a consequence of this. Flat 312: Pigeon flat of death! 11th Floor More Dead Pigeons! Flat 324: Furnish Let. Tenant slept in a coffin after a nite out @ Headcharge (flyers proudly displayed on wall). Pigeon **** everywhere. 10th Floor WENDY WOOLWORTH'S FLOOR (pigeons have totally taken over the asylum)! GREEN "NORFOLK" BLOCK ...more of the same! Generally the flats got used for drug taking after tenants left/ once the estate became totally empty.There was some level of security on Claywood right up until last handful of tenants moved out, the empty tower blocks weren't re-secured and then started to be used by Sheffield's heroin community. No clear signs whether or not there were many actual tenants with heroin or other drug habits, this was never a great problem until the estate became three quarters empty towards the end of 2001. Many of the tenants around this time were pensioners. Older people made up a significant proportion of the 350+ tenants on Claywood and were reluctant to leave when they first heard about clearance plans in 1999/2000. Prior to this, people were told that the 3 blocks at Claywood would be saved and not demolished (20+ similar tower blocks on Norfolk Park were demolished from 1994-2004). WE ALL LOVE WENDY WOOLWORTH (nobody here but us pigeons)! Image are: Freak Peace: Research, photography, html, words & design Nobody Here But us PIGEONS: Research & words World WAR free: Research, words, photography & design d4: research, photography, html scripts Just to Add: there had, we feel, been systematic smashing of all sinks in bathrooms / kitchens alike. This also fits the bill of Sheffield Metropolitan Vandalism. We once squatted Crooksmoore jnr. School (Oxford St. / Crooksmoore Rd.) Once inside, we discovered all water pipes had been cut under the floorboards, and then floorboards replaced! This was discovered once the thick squatters had turned on the water and the place flooded. We now always look for such Metropolitan Vandalism in each public place we choose to Squat. For Now, Freak Peace Image.

hey up.. came here from a long path... the name image comes from our url which is image.lowtech.org lots of images of sheffield from the city centre to green side and of course all the urban dereliction.. we are working on a current project about Claywood flats... aint sure if this is the right place (to post this) but i need to ask: are there any persons out there with info on claywood? (that esate behind the rail station..) the three tower blocks that are soon due for demolition. here is the intro text from the front page of image so you get an idea what we are aiming for etc.. The flats in question (claywood drive - where the dodgy but quite artist platter of decadence is on display.. see: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2004/03/286734.html ) are a disgraceful waste of natural resources. Abandoned by Sheffield City Council, the tower blocks have been emptied but left open for anyone to view the 350+ flats, half of which still contain furniture, fridges and other belongings. 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. here (link) are the first set taken there from an agfa cl18 when we were squatting the whole of floor 3 and parts of floor 5 / 12 along with keys for another floor on the yellow block. it was due to our actions we stopped the drug abuse and other anti social behaviour while there were still a few tenants remaining. it seems they have been left open again (number of conspiracy theories - you decide..) have a peek at the images http://image.lowtech.org image..