Why are London’s politicians so keen to knock down council estates? Lib Peck, the leader of Lambeth Council, who is pushing through estate demolitions against fierce opposition from residents, feels that estate regeneration is essential to build extra homes, which are badly needed in London. She has described estate regeneration as a golden opportunity to […]
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 […]
Pie in the sky – Vauxhall Sky Gardens
OurCity.London reveals more evidence of how leading surveyors cook the books in order to remove affordable housing from a luxury housing development. I first wrote about this case three years ago. Frasers property had been granted planning permission to build a quite specularly ugly tower in Vauxhall in 2008. The original planning permission came with […]
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