NO PRICE ON CULTURE
PLUSH
Peace - Love - Unity - Strength - Harmony
EVICTED
16.01.2024
EVICTED
DISPLACED
16.01.2024
EVICTED
Social Call To Action
The Plush Action group have pre-drafted a community letter for you to submit to the London Borough of Southwark. You must copy the email addresses and use the SAME SUBJECT HEADING in your email.
1. Click to open letter ‘Email Letter’ or #SAVEPLUSH
2. Download the letter & copy the email addresses
3. Make sure to copy the subject heading into your email
✅ RE: Ongoing Appeal: Save PlushSE16 – Preserving Culture Empowering Community Jobs and Well-Being
4. Attach the PDF Letter
5. 📧 SEND your email 🚀🚀🚀
SITE TO SIDEWALK
PlushSE16 community has faced bailiffs, legal complexities, from the attempt to dismantle our cultural hub. Michael speaks up on the morning of final eviction on 16th January 2024.
KEY MOMENTS
Current Situation:
#JusticeForPlush
Jan 2024
Eviction 2 -
Displaced Society
Jan 2024
Community Customer Appreciation Day
Dec 2023
Trading Through Displacement
Oct 2023
Royal Courts Justice Eviction
Feb 2023
Regent Land Developments Planning Proposal
2019
Re-Open Following Forced Closure
August 2022
Community Day
August 2022
Community Day
August 2022
Eviction 1 - Forced Business Closure
August
2022
One Year On:
#JusticeForPlush
Jan 2025
Barbershop
Our unisex barbershop is a pinnacle place of social interaction and public discourse, integration with open debate, voicing public concerns, and engaging in discussions about contemporary issues.
Car Wash
A simple system of providing quality, speed and value for money locally. Convenient for users of our additional services with a trusted team of car wash specialists.
Hairdressers
Unisex hair studio is a place of social interaction and public discourse, integration with open debate, voicing public concerns and engaging in discussions about contemporary issues.
Youth Music Studio
Our music studio is for both professional and aspiring young musicians, focusing on affordable music production access for youth. The studio plans to provide free youth music programmes in 2023 for young people between 12-20, with current funding routes in the works.
Caribbean Food Takeaway
A curated street food point of the SE16 community where many gather and pass through because of food, a space where people engage in and partake in the sharing of culture and community. Afro-Caribbean cuisine is often misrepresented in mainstream food culture at Plush our chef will keep you coming back.
ALL 5 BUSINESSES DISPLACED
+ UNABLE TO TRADE
FORCED CLOSURE
On 11th August 2022, our landlord activated an eviction to seek Vacant Possession of the site when our lease expired. Ahead of our lease expiry, we were told to sit tight and wait that we were entitled to Business Relocation as outlined by Southwark Council. Through community uproar, our #NOPRICEONCULTURE campaign sought clarity from The London Borough of Southwark that a Business Relocation Strategy was indeed a right to be fulfilled by Regent Land and Developments..
ABOUT PLUSH
PlushSE16, a concept from Michael Clinkett at the age of 22 through cultural business, has helped address local & London-wide social issues and harnessed through his social entrepreneurialism a proactive and connected community through an affordable first-business in-the-community offering for over 20 years whilst enabling local talent, supporting our youth and vulnerable adults by being a rooted community.
We understand the value of culture and are a people-place and culture-exchange-first business.
True Social Purpose. True Social Value.
'SOUTHWARK P33'
OUR RIGHT OVERLOOKED
As a business, we currently await Regent Land and Developments to adhere fully to the P33. We are working with the London Borough of Southwark to relocate locally to vacate away from our existing site.
Planning REFUSED by Southwark Council in March 2023.
WE DID NOT
DISPLACE OURSELVES
CAMPAIGN MERCH LIVE
Evening Standard:
S.H.A.P.E Protest
Exclusive: Ruth Bloomfield covers our involvement in the S.H.A.P.E. protest, and we share the impact local development has had on businesses and locally formed community loss.
Vittles Magazine:
Community + Food
Exclusive: Gavin, a Political Editor at Vittles Magazine and a Plush Caribbean Customer, sits down with Michael Clinkett to talk about food and community.
The Urban Activist:
The Inside Story
Exclusive: Urban Activist Foudner Susana F. Molina dives deep in an interview with Michael on the very real situation of displacement and our cities.
Southwark News
Exclusive: Twenty bailiffs evict Plush SE16 following 17-month battle for relocation
Southwark News
Exclusive: Rotherhithe landowner, who says she is evicting Plush SE16 so housing can be built ‘for the community’, gives one month stay of execution
ITV Coverage
ITV London visited Plush to report the current situation of the Business Relocation Strategy, coverage reported by Antoine Allen.
Southwark News
Rotherhithe: Evicted small business owner gets keys back and is free to start trading again
My London Live
Bailiffs trying to evict London barber and carwash so developer can build tower block warned by police
PRESS + COVERAGE
