OurCity.London has received another confidential viability assessment. The assessment is part of an application to build another skyscraper at 12-20 Wyvil Road in Vauxhall. In this post we reveal how the developers and landowners gamed the viability system to justify a reduction in affordable housing on the site. 12-20 Wyvil Road The plans for a new […]
Archives for July 2016
July 23rd Walking Tour of the VNEB Opportunity Area
OurCity.London is really pleased to announce our first London walking tour. This two hour tour will explore London’s changing urban environment. The first tour will take place in Vauxhall, at the heart of the Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea ‘Opportunity Area’. The VNEB was supposed to be a solution to London’s deep housing crisis, but […]
Pie in the sky – Vauxhall Sky Gardens
OurCity.London reveals more evidence of how leading surveyors cook the books in order to remove affordable housing from a luxury housing development. I first wrote about this case three years ago. Frasers property had been granted planning permission to build a quite specularly ugly tower in Vauxhall in 2008. The original planning permission came with […]
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