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 […]
How we can bring down house prices now
There is now an increasing amount of evidence demonstrating that the dramatic rise in house prices being seen in the UK and elsewhere is not caused by a lack of housing supply. This is a hugely important insight, because boosting supply has been the primary focus of government policy for years. If boosting supply does […]
Exhibition – Deconstructing London – The Camera Club London March 5th-17th
You are all cordially invited to an exhibition of my photography. Deconstructing London is an exhibition of photographs I have taken as part of my investigation into housing and planning over the last three years. It is on at the Camera Club and will run from the 5th to the 17th of March 2017. Based […]
Case Studies
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 […]
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