Woman fumes at town becoming ‘too posh’ for her to wear pyjamas to Sainsbury’s
A London woman has complained that she can’t her do her supermarket shop in her pyjamas any more, because her area has started moving upmarket and the newcomers “stare at her”.
South Acton resident Andzelika Luse told MyLondon: ”We used to be able to go to the corner shop in our pyjamas. But now it's like if I go Sainsbury's in my pyjamas people are just gonna be staring at me. It's not acceptable. You're not allowed to do that anymore”.
The dilapidated West London suburb has undergone an £800million regeneration thanks to Ealing Council, but not everyone’s happy about it.
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"It started with them breaking the parks," Andzelika complained. Playgrounds and fields in South Acton that she and her friends had run around as children began disappearing, she says.
But according to Andzelika it was when long-time residents started moving out “and posh people started arriving” that things really started changing
"Everyone had to move," she continued. "Some of these new-builds are quite expensive and most of them are privately owned. So the one where I live, it's four buildings and mine is the only council one."
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And it’s not just that the incomers are better off, she complains, it’ that they’re more judgemental: "We're used to this being South Acton …[where] we just dress how we want to,” Andzelika says.
But then you see [new residents] in their high heels, suits or gym outfits and they look at us like we're not there."
She added that she used to pop to Sainbury’s in her pyjamas, but “you're not allowed to do that anymore”.
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Andzelika adds that there’s a lot of prejudice against the original working-class residents: “They see these people dressed up in tracksuits and think we're …you know, not on the same level as them.
"They think we're some bad kids, drug dealers who play loud music and smoke weed," she added.
Another problem, Andzelika, is that it takes time for a thriving community to give way to a more upmarket neighbourhood, and until that happens, gaps are left: ”Everything is just empty," Andzelika says.
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"Right now they're making a gym, there's a unisex barber now, we have a small Sainsbury's and the GP, that's pretty much all we have," Andzelika says.
"You have to go all the way to [Acton] High Street or Chiswick if you want to buy something.
"The corner shops we had used to be a lot cheaper, the Sainsbury's we have now is more expensive than Waitrose and Marks & Spencer."
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Responding to the issues raised in this article a council spokesperson said: "Ealing Council is delivering one of London's biggest council homebuilding programmes, with thousands of new socially rented homes being built around the borough.
"Acton Gardens is a key part of that work, and once completed in around 2027, it will host around 3,400 new homes, of which 1,250 will be socially let at rents within the means of local people on low incomes.
"There will be twice as many homes at the estate than before regeneration started, and almost a third more affordable housing, which is partly funded by the sale of other new homes.
"We are replacing the existing poor quality social housing with enough new homes to accommodate all existing residents who want to continue living on the estate.
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