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Daylight Robbery – Part 2 – Meet GIA The princes of darkness

April 14, 2016 By George Turner 4 Comments

Daylight Robbery – Part 2 – Meet GIA The princes of darkness

Yesterday we looked at how tall buildings can have a devastating impact on the daylight received by neighbouring homes. Regardless of this, they are often still approved by planning authorities. Why do councils grant planning permission to these buildings that so clearly damage the homes of local residents, even when planning policies say that amenities like […]

Filed Under: Daylight Tagged With: 8 Albert Embankment, BRE, Canary Wharf, Daylight, GIA, Hackney, Isle of Dogs, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets, Wood Wharf

Taking the piss on the Garden Bridge?

March 7, 2016 By George Turner 7 Comments

Taking the piss on the Garden Bridge?

The battle over the Garden Bridge continues. The issue of public toilets has flushed out a questionable land deal with Coin Street Community Builders. This latest dispute has seen Lambeth Council officers backing Joanna Lumley’s scheme, in open rebellion to their councillors and the public. Forget the dodgy procurement process, the huge amounts of public money being thrown at the scheme, the […]

Filed Under: South Bank Tagged With: Coin Street, Garden Bridge, Lambeth, Planning, Public Toilets, South Bank

Marking the homework – How developers pay for ‘independent’ checks on their affordable housing deals

February 13, 2016 By George Turner 3 Comments

Marking the homework – How developers pay for ‘independent’ checks on their affordable housing deals

After writing my last article on how surveyors appear to be deliberately manipulating valuations in order to reduce the affordable housing obligations on their clients, a number of people commented that those figures are supposed to be checked by financial viability consultants employed by the council. Surely, if the developer is trying to game the system, it […]

Filed Under: Viability Tagged With: BNP Paribas, consultants, development professionals, greenwich, Heygate, Lambeth, Shell, Viability

The Shell Centre and The Battle for Waterloo

December 7, 2015 By George Turner 1 Comment

The Shell Centre and The Battle for Waterloo

The Shell Centre is currently the headquarters of the Shell International Petroleum Company. Built in 1954, at the time it was an innovative and controversial building. But love it or hate it, the plans to redevelop the site are a disaster, demonstrating all of the worst excesses of the current London development market. Eight tall […]

Filed Under: South Bank Tagged With: Canary Wharf Group, John Braithwaite, Knight Frank, Lambeth, PINS, Qatari Diar, Secretary of State, Shell, Shell Centre

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