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 […]
Planning Alchemy – 12-20 Wyvil Road
OurCity.London has received another confidential viability assessment. The assessment is part of an application to build another skyscraper at 12-20 Wyvil Road in Vauxhall. In this post we reveal how the developers and landowners gamed the viability system to justify a reduction in affordable housing on the site. 12-20 Wyvil Road The plans for a new […]
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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