Save Nour campaign group react to Lambeth Council approving the redevelopment of International House

The 3Space project in International House is currently home to London’s largest affordable workspace and a hub for community support, used by over 100 charities and community organisations. Lambeth Council has …

Mar 26, 2026 - 13:18

Save Nour campaign group react to Lambeth Council approving the redevelopment of International House

The 3Space project in International House is currently home to London’s largest affordable workspace and a hub for community support, used by over 100 charities and community organisations.

Lambeth Council has recently approved the redevelopment of this 12 storey block.

Local community campaign group Save Nour, Save Brixton has issued this response to the decision:

As expected, Lambeth Council has approved the destruction of a crucial cornerstone of South London’s Black communities to make space for an Emirati billionaire.

London Square’s proposal will evict over 100 community organisations, to make way for 69 private rental homes, alongside limited social housing.

Experience shows that, across London, social housing commitments get reduced again and again by developers through viability assessments.

Giving billionaire property developers everything they want, in the hope that something will be returned from those enormous profits, has failed to meet the needs of normal people for decades. Isn’t it time that we took an alternative approach?

International House already is that alternative. It is home to 100+ organisations providing vital services – including HIV prevention, combatting youth violence and supporting the integration of refugees, without direct council funding.

Paying tenants on other floors fund these organisations, and the operator, 3Space, even pays rent to Lambeth for the building.

Councillors dismissed our concerns that forcing so many organisations out would negatively impact people with protected characteristics the most, including Black and disabled communities, thus violating their obligations under the 2010 Equalities Act.

Councillor Danny Adilypour emphasised the need for “new affordable workspace and new homes” while backing a decision that will displace London’s largest existing affordable workspace – currently free to dozens of Black-led organisations.

Lambeth’s relocation offer to the tenants is insulting at best, and social cleansing at worst – proposing that they move to spaces that cost £20,000 a year. How is that affordable for organisations with an annual turnover of less than £10,000?

We need more social housing, but the mere promise of it cannot come at the cost of the free support that has been keeping us afloat.

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