Has the development community finally met its match in the fearsome lions of Millwall football club? For several years Lewisham, with their development partner, Renewal, have been trying to start redevelopment of a large part of industrial London in Deptford. Now the scheme is going off the rails after the council and Renewal have faced […]
Blackmail at the Alma Estate
Our City.London can reveal that Enfield council has sent letters to leaseholders on the Alma Estate, which it plans to demolish, threatening them with the removal of an offer of a new home if they do not drop their objections to the council’s plans to compulsorily purchase their homes. The letters have emerged as a public […]
Assuming the worst – How surveyors helped to drop affordable housing the Heygate
In last week’s article we looked at how leaseholders facing estate regeneration are getting a raw deal when their homes are subject to compulsory purchase orders. Obviously the less money developers can offer to leaseholders to get them off the land they want to build on, the more profit for the developer. And if developers make […]
After the Aylesbury – Estate regeneration, but not as we know it?
Last week the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government refused to allow the compulsory purchase of flats on the latest phase of the Aylesbury Estate’s redevelopment, citing concerns about the way that Southwark council was dealing with leaseholders. This article explains why this decision was important, and why Southwark Council are wrong to […]
5 Things The New Mayor can do to solve the housing crisis
We have a new mayor who says that his main priority is to fix the housing crisis. But how? All politicians claim to want to do something about the horrific housing situation in London, but in recent years the situation has gone from bad to worse. With a new mayor comes new hope that he might take […]
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