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Blimey.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/barking-dagenham-council-planning-dispute-a4339966.html
Has this been resolved yet? Er yes, it has now.
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More shitty tower blocks, this time in Ealing (again):
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Something on the problem that we have high-demand areas for housing when elsewhere swathes of housing are empty, which leads to low-value and unsuitable land being built on (usually cheap shit development):
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The previously posted application for Cavendish Square has got planning permission:
It will be interesting to see what uses will eventually work there.
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This is about a development (long approved etc.) still in construction near Hackney Downs:
For some reason, even though I ride past there pretty much every day in 'normal' times, I only spotted the name a few days ago. Maybe they hadn't erected the large name sign at the entrance yet. It's a slightly unfortunate name, because in German, from which the "Haus" bit is taken, a "Parkhaus" is a covered car park, as in multi-storey car park. I actually had to think about it for a moment when I saw the name to realise that they were obviously referencing the closeness to Hackney Downs. I suppose "Downshaus" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but it's certainly a name I would prefer. Cue generations of German tenants joking (well, you know) to their friends and family that they live in the Parkhaus ...
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"Neubauten"
Erm, yeah, I can totally see them moving into Schlager ...
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One of the more spectacular planning applications in London in recent years:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/trocadero-piccadilly-circus-plan-build-mosque-a4445766.html
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Allegations of stunningly corrupt stuff here:
Wow. Good thing they were a bit clumsy about this one, but you can bet that elsewhere things like it have gone through or are going through ...
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More of what was apparently a fairly transparent act of corruption:
In January, Jenrick overruled the local council and the government’s planning inspectorate to approve the 1,500-apartment, 44-storey complex on the site of a former newspaper printworks on the the Isle of Dogs.
The decision came a day before the introduction of a community infrastructure levy (CIL) imposed by Tower Hamlets council, which would have charged Desmond’s company at least £40m, to be used for local education and health projects.
After the council challenged his decision, Jenrick accepted it had been unlawful. It has since emerged that Jenrick sat on the same table as Desmond at a Conservative fundraising event in November, and that Desmond donated £12,000 to the party two weeks after Jenrick sided with him in the planning matter.
If true, a far, far bigger scandal than the sorry Cummings affair (and quite a lot of other scandals). It would be, without a shadow of a doubt, a resigning matter.
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Yet another article about this. I won't post any more unless there's actually a significant development, but I guess it's just going to run into the sand; I wonder whether there will be enough evidence to warrant a legal aftermath.
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Yes, without concrete evidence little is probably going to happen, although having said that, Desmond has just come out with the claim that Jenrick watched his promotional video, maybe because he didn't get anything for his donation in the end?
Anyway, while even with this state of knowledge it's a 100% crystal clear resigning matter, I won't be holding my breath waiting for him to resign. I do worry about this 'Government' heaping scandal upon scandal until everybody just gets tired of them and stops being able to protest. I'd like to think we're still better than that would be tolerated in the public sphere, but you never know how low it can go.
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The GLA is leaving the Testicle:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-city-hall-move-east-end-save-55m-a4478356.html
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I'm not sure if its new home is that much more attractive, but hey:
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Yes, the consequence of flogging off County Hall.
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It's not a bad scheme to move somewhere cheap, change the planning rules to make it nice/more expensive, then sell it off to a dodgy Arab sovereign wealth fund - provided most of the profits are captured by the city and not the investors.
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Just look at this. Jenrick must go. Johnson really should fire him, but I expect he'll 'resign', if anything happens at all.
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Its looking pretty bad.. people have been sacked for far less.
Unless the media and labour dig heels in it looks like hell get away with it.
Tbh I'd be happy if the developer pays the marxists (30-50 million) and be done with it. But then I dont live in west ferry.
One of boris last decision as mayor was approval of large project over a contaminated site in southall, so cosying up with developers is considered normal in modern Tory circles. -
More on corruption:
Following the documents’ release the cabinet secretary, Mark Sedwill, responded to an urgent query from Labour by stating: “The prime minister considers that the matter is closed.”
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The shadow communities secretary, Steve Reed, has written to Jenrick, posing a series of further questions, including the date he notified officials in his department about meeting Desmond at the Conservative fundraising dinner.
Reed said the documents published on Wednesday “raise far more questions about the secretary of state’s relationship with Richard Desmond than they answer,” adding, “whether the prime minister likes it or not, this matter is far from closed.”
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Often older people don't like change so I would expect some resistance from people who look back with rose tinted spectacles.
However some of those estate are incredibly grim and dreary places. Often making people anti social and a haven for crime especially drugs.
They can also be expensive for the council and tenants to maintain. Having all the problems of older buildings. Not true of all older estates but certainly this one.