On 4 July 2017 in Willesden Magistrates court two companies, Wise Estates (UK) Limited, Manlow Property Management, and one individual, Simon Low, were convicted of breaches in the Town and Country Planning Act over the conversion of a family home into tiny micro-flats for rent. On the face of it, the charges seem relatively minor. […]
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The Battersea Power Station affordable housing scandal: How Wandsworth Gave away over 1000 affordable homes to a failing developer
Previously confidential documents show that whilst Londoners faced an affordable housing crisis, Wandsworth Council negotiated away over 1000 affordable homes on the Battersea Power Station site in order to prop up the failing company Treasury Holdings. The attempt to bail out Treasury with permission to build luxury properties failed, the company went into administration shortly […]
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