A guest post from Joseph Black, one of the co-founders of the Save West Hampstead “Stop the Blocks!” campaign. In this story, Joseph shows us how individuals associated with Westminster’s Homes for Votes Scandal have reemerged in the world of Camden Neighbourhood Planning. The account gives us a stark and timely warning of the dangers of […]
Archives for October 2016
How to kill a London Pub – The Star St John’s Wood
Friday night at the Star was just like any other night; the pub closed without fanfare. No announcements were made other than the usual calls for last orders. The regulars said goodbye, but expected to be back soon. But Mary Maguire, the pub landlady, knew that this would be her last night in the pub. […]
Stand up to Lambeth
Yesterday a couple of hundred people marched in protest at the policies of Lambeth Council. It is not every day that you get a protest march against a council, but such is the strength of feeling in the borough about policies like estate regeneration, the closure of libraries and the council’s supporting the hugely wasteful garden […]
Sadiq spins the revolving door for financial viability consultants
In August, the new Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced that he would be employing an expert group to scrutinise affordable housing viability assessments, the documents property developers have to submit to councils when they want to drop affordable housing obligations. We have reported on a number of occasions on how viability assessments are used […]
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