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<p><b>Oval Mansions</b> are eight separate blocks of <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenement</a> housing in <a href="/wiki/Kennington" title="Kennington">Kennington</a>, south London. The blocks stand between <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">the Oval cricket ground</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Oval_Gasholders" title="The Oval Gasholders">the Oval Gasholders</a>. After being occupied by 100 <a href="/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales" title="Squatting in England and Wales">squatters</a> from 1983 until 2000 (notable residents including <a href="/wiki/Ian_Dury" title="Ian Dury">Ian Dury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Wearing" title="Gillian Wearing">Gillian Wearing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Barrymore" title="Michael Barrymore">Michael Barrymore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Corbett" title="Matthew Corbett">Matthew Corbett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Myers" title="Ben Myers">Ben Myers</a>), the buildings were sold off by <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Lambeth Council">Lambeth Council</a> in the early 2000s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction">Construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oval_Mansions&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The eight blocks of the Oval Mansions were built as <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenement</a> housing in the 1890s. The original inhabitants were nurses and employees at the <a href="/wiki/The_Oval_Gasholders" title="The Oval Gasholders">nearby gasworks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Oldest_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oldest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of four-storey blocks overlook <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">the Oval cricket ground</a>, and it is possible to watch cricket from the roof.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopaedia_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopaedia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TelegraphSport_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TelegraphSport-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The blocks were closed in 1979 by order of the new owner, <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Lambeth Council">Lambeth Council</a>, since they were becoming unsafe; they had wooden stairs and no <a href="/wiki/Fire_escape" title="Fire escape">fire escapes</a>. The council had bought the mainly uninhabited site from the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Council" title="Greater London Council">Greater London Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Oldest_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oldest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Squatted">Squatted</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oval_Mansions&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Squatted"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the empty buildings were <a href="/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales" title="Squatting in England and Wales">squatted</a> from January 1983 onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-Lowndes_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lowndes-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blocks 1, 3 and 4 were occupied in 1983, blocks 2 and 7 in 1984 and blocks 6 and 8 in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-Appeal_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Appeal-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The council having forgotten about them, the squatters renovated and repaired the apartments, living there in a community of approximately 100 people.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopaedia_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopaedia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Oldest_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oldest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notable residents included the singer <a href="/wiki/Ian_Dury" title="Ian Dury">Ian Dury</a>, artists <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Wearing" title="Gillian Wearing">Gillian Wearing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fiona_Banner" title="Fiona Banner">Fiona Banner</a>, writer <a href="/wiki/Ben_Myers" title="Ben Myers">Ben Myers</a> and musicians <a href="/wiki/Pan_Sonic" title="Pan Sonic">Pan Sonic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hurt_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hurt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1988 and 1998, squatters set up and ran the <a href="/wiki/City_Racing" title="City Racing">City Racing</a> art gallery in a former betting shop on the ground floor.<sup id="cite_ref-Noble_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noble-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Envelope_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Envelope-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gallery exhibited the work of <a href="/wiki/Young_British_Artists" title="Young British Artists">Young British Artists</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Lucas" title="Sarah Lucas">Sarah Lucas</a> and Gillian Wearing, selling three Lucas artworks to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Saatchi" title="Charles Saatchi">Charles Saatchi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lowndes_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lowndes-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The community also ran a film club and tended shared gardens.<sup id="cite_ref-Squall_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Squall-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Oldest_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oldest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eviction">Eviction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oval_Mansions&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Eviction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the late 1990s, Lambeth Council had realised the increasing monetary value of the apartments and issued eviction proceedings in 1997. The squatters were offered social housing elsewhere, which some took, but others contested the eviction process, arguing that they were entitled to <a href="/wiki/Adverse_possession" title="Adverse possession">adverse possession</a> since they had lived there as a community for over twelve years.<sup id="cite_ref-Oldest_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oldest-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thirty-two squatters made their case in court, and six apartments successfully gained ownership. Judge Cooke decided that another 53 squats had not proven their case, with one extra still in dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-Appeal_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Appeal-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The squatters took their case to the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_(England_and_Wales)" title="Court of Appeal (England and Wales)">Court of Appeal</a>, claiming that they had acquired title by virtue of joint possession. The appeal was rejected in December 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-Appeal_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Appeal-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AP_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2003, Lambeth Council had sold the majority of the Oval Mansions for <span style="white-space: nowrap">£5.1</span><span class="nowrap"> </span>million.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2015, a penthouse apartment could be rented for <span style="white-space: nowrap">£500</span> per week and in 2017, a two-bed apartment sold for <span style="white-space: nowrap">£730,000</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-TelegraphSport_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TelegraphSport-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oval_Mansions&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bonnington_Square" title="Bonnington Square">Bonnington Square</a>, another famous squat in Lambeth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frestonia" title="Frestonia">Frestonia</a>, a squat in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Rooftops" title="Wrigley Rooftops">Wrigley Rooftops</a>, a sports venue vantage point in Chicago, USA</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oval_Mansions&action=edit&section=5" 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