For many decades of London history the name Earl’s Court, often shorn of its apostrophe, was more synonymous with entertainment and bohemianism than the nobs whose former ownership of the land explains its name. The arrival of the Underground from the 1860s encouraged development and enterprise: housing, arts institutions and, in 1895, the Empire of […]
In 1889, George Washington built the first Ferris Wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was a pioneering move by Washington – or to give him his full name George Washington Gale Ferris Jr – which spun a chain of imitators around the world in what might be called urban icon wars. […]
The redevelopment of Earls Court has so far been one of London’s biggest regeneration failures of the past ten or more years. But now, at long last, there are signs that a scheme of merit might rise from the wreckage of what has gone before. At the end of last year, a new developer, Delancey, […]
Property giant Capital and Counties (Capco) has sold the bulk of its interests in the 77-acre Earls Court regeneration project to fellow developer Delancey and its Dutch pension fund manager partner APG, following years of inaction on one of the capital’s biggest redevelopment schemes. A figure of £425 million has been agreed for parts of […]
Ten years have passed since the then Conservative-run Hammersmith & Fulham Council unveiled ambitious plans for the redevelopment of Earls Court and north Fulham. These included knocking down the Earls Court exhibition centre and two adjoining council-owned housing estates to help make way for a new west London district straddling the border with Kensington & […]
Sadiq Khan has expressed support for Hammersmith & Fulham Council exploring using compulsory purchase powers to take ownership of a key site within the stalled Earls Court regeneration area. Following a meeting yesterday with the Labour-run council’s leader Stephen Cowan, the Mayor said in a statement that “all options for breaking the current impasse must […]
The government’s housing minister has given a boost to one campaign by a London residents’ organisation for their estate to be transferred out of their local council’s ownership and delivered a blow to another in long-awaited decisions made in the past two days. Lambeth Council has been told to facilitate a proposal submitted to it […]
Transport for London has expressed increasing frustration with property giant Capital and Counties (Capco) over its failure to build out a piece of prime West London land owned by the transport body, claiming the developer turned down what is understood to have been a proposal by TfL to buy out part of its interest in […]
