This is the face of Britain's shameless world of class-privilege: "Poor Kids Banned in Play Area"

(Press attention did, as a matter of fact, shame these disgusting people into reversing their former policy.)

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(Metro (a free daily paper), (London)

Poor kids banned in play area: Social and private tenants kept ‘segregated’ | | by Daniel Binns | 26 March 2019

A DEVELOPER has been condemned over the ‘segregation’ of rich and poor children into separate playgrounds on a multi-million-pound housing estate.

Henley Homes created a large grassy area that social housing tenants look down on from their windows.

But it is reserved for the children in neighbouring private homes — while their own youngsters are confined to a bark-lined strip around the back.

Claudia Cifuentes, 38, said she was told when she moved in that she and children Louisa, six, and Juan Jose, 14, were not allowed in the central area. ‘In summer there are children playing there and I see the children living above me looking over,’ she said. ‘It’s heartbreaking and sad to see.

‘The tiny playground on our side isn’t good at all. My son got a lot of splinters on his knees and hands from the bark but the other play area has grass.’

Housing secretary James Brokenshire and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have both denounced the arrangements — revealed by the Guardian — at the Baylis Old School complex in Lambeth, south London.

The capital’s mayor Sadiq Khan said: ‘Segregation has absolutely no place in London. It’s disgraceful that children who live in the same development are not being allowed to play together.’

Lambeth council gave permission in 2013 for 149 houses and flats to be built on the site, which used to house a school. It laid down a condition that 60 of the properties must be reserved for people unable to afford the private flats, which cost up to £615,000. The council said there was supposed to be equal access to public areas.

But during building work, a large hedge was planted, blocking off the low-income tenants from the grass area where children can play on a swing. It came after Henley Homes sold the freehold of the social housing section, Wren Mews, to the Guinness Partnership. The developer insisted it ‘never had an issue’ with all residents using the public space but was advised the sites had to be split to allow for the two freeholds. ...

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Utterly "par for the course" for the morally-depraved world which is that of 'Rich vs. 'Poor' ' (or, in this case, just anything at all below the level of lower end of quite-reasonably-nice-housing-comforts; after all, these units were sold for "only" a hundred grand above half-a-million pounds sterling--not at all in the true luxury range for London) in Britain and, in particular, in London. And, here, in this instance, we're very, very far from the heights of wealth and the roped-off, walled-off bubble existence that goes with it.

(Paraphrasing the report's details) This housing development presents apartment homes costing, for the top-of-the-line offered, around 600,000 (GBP) or somewhat more (£615,000). As a condition of planning commission permission, 60 of the total of 149 units had to be offered at prices affordable to "low-income" families, those unable to afford the private flats. (Summarized from the Metro's news-story's text.)