The former Heygate estate, in Elephant and Castle. The plan for its transformation in 2014 into 2,700 new homes included only 82 for social rent IT was the focus of a bitter planning battle waged by residents over a lucrative slice of real estate on the edge of Clerkenwell that …
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Chuka Umunna gives a runners-up speech in Two Cities in 2019 WHO remembers that smart lad with the yellow tie who stood for the Liberal Democrats in the Two Cities constituency at the last election? Given the fuss that both the Labour Party and the Lib Dems once made over the …
Read More »Griff Rhys Jones joins campaign against tower block demolition
Griff Rhys Jones, left, with members of the Save Museum Street campaign group outside under-threat Selkirk House in Bloomsbury A DEMOLITION project to flatten a 1960s tower block in Bloomsbury should be a test case as to whether councils are applying their own net-zero policies, campaigners said this week. Broadcaster …
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