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 […]
Archives for 2017
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 […]
RICS and regulatory failure
When I started this site I had two goals. Firstly to uncover the kinds of practices that allow a small group of people to make vast amounts of money off the financial misery of the majority of Londoners. Second I wanted to do something about it. I was perhaps driven by a slightly naive belief […]
Sadiq ‘Demolition’ Khan’s estate ‘regeneration’ consultation: a sham?
This guest post comes from Tony Coyne. Tony is a freelance journalist and housing campaigner. He writes under a pseudonym to prevent any backlash against the campaigns he is involved in. During the election Mr Khan made a great deal out of the fact that he was brought up on a council estate, with his […]
Recent Comments