Last year, we reported on the criminal conviction of Wise Estates, Simon Low and Manlow Property Management for failing to abide by a planning enforcement notice. All three defendants were in the dock over the same property, 9 Stonebridge Park in Brent, a small family home that had been converted into six micro-flats. Brent claimed […]
The Politics of Battersea Power Station
It seems some councilors at Wandsworth are bit sensitive about the reporting I have been doing around the Battersea Power Station Project. In the last few days a number of councilors have been tweeting the following: Doubling costs: the truth about Battersea Power Station that the Observer & @georgenturner won’t want you to see: https://t.co/ixie7NlZU4 […]
Lockdown landlord convicted for breaches in Planning Act
Update: In March 2018 news reached ourcity.london that two of the defendants written about in this article, Simon Low and Manlow Property Development, had seen their convictions in this case overturned at the Crown Court. You can read more about this development here. On 4 July 2017 in Willesden Magistrates court two companies, Wise Estates […]
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 […]
Guest Post: The Houses in Multiple Occupation Scam. Warehousing the poor and ripping off the public
This post comes from Jon Knowles, who lives in Hounslow, West London. Some time ago Jon noticed some disturbing changes in his area. Homes built to accommodate a family of three or four were being bought up and converted to houses in multiple occupation. The practice was starting to have an impact on the neighbourhood […]
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