London estate resident goes to high court over demolition plans

Aysen Dennis: ‘It’s not just concrete walls and profit. What about the human beings who are affected by all this gentrification.’ Photograph: Handout

A woman who has lived on the same council estate for 30 years has taken developers and her local authority to the high court over plans to demolish her home.

Aysen Dennis, 64, is fighting to keep her two-bedroom council flat on a south London estate and says plans for redevelopment amount to “social cleansing”.