A LANDLORD is set to sell 1,300 homes despite families protesting against the decision.

The Crown Estate is proposing to sell 78 properties on the Lee Green Estate in Lee Green to a housing provider.

It also plans to sell 1,222 homes across Westminster, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Camden.

Residents in Lee Green fear a private landlord or housing association would increase rent and break up londstanding communities.

Chair of the Lee Green residents association, Janine Rankine, said: “They are going ahead despite overwhelming opposition.

“We are very disappointed and all our tenants remain anxious.”

Mrs Rankine, who has lived in Cambridge Drive for 35 years, added: “The Crown has always been a good landlord. It’s a good community and an estate we are pleased to be living on.”

The Crown Estate is a statutory corporation run on commercial lines by Crown Estate Commissioners.

It has a property portfolio worth more than £6bn and each year generates millions of pounds for the Treasury.

London Assembly conservative housing spokesman, Steve O’Connell said: “The Crown Estate Board’s decision to sell vital key worker housing is a scandal.

“They’ve admitted the vast majority of those consulted on the sale are against it; nevertheless they are ploughing on regardless.”

Crown Estate says residents’ rent will not be affected.

Chairman of The Crown Estate, Sir Stuart Hampson, said: “The Board believes the estates would be more effectively run by an organisation whose core business is managing this type of housing subject to important conditions in respect of the continued provision of key worker rented housing in the future.”