South London housing complex should be renamed due to its links to the slave trade, Battersea MP Marsha de Cordova says
A housing complex in south London should be renamed due to its links to the slave trade, an MP has said.
Ms de Cordova said she wrote to Wandsworth Council a year ago asking for them to consider renaming the development, but did not receive a response. "To do so simply breeds hate which I believe is what we are all working to eradicate. I want facts not opinion.Dr Brady added she had commissioned research into the names "associated with international trade and with business from far away countries", and why they had been chosen.
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