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Tall buildings pipeline in London remains strong despite new demands on developers

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Olympic Legacy chief to help boost housing supply on GLA land

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Borough Elections 2022: Londoners go to the polls

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Borough Elections 2022: The many ways in which Harrow could go either way

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Vic Keegan: Red Clerkenwell Green

Advocates of progressive change have gathered on this spot since the 14th century

Vic Keegan’s Lost London 225: Bagnigge Wells

Its spring waters attracted Londoners from far and wide

Vic Keegan: Turnmill Street – the Clerkenwell artery that captures London’s reinventions

Industry, religion, George IV and every kind of vice form part of an extraordinary history that beguiled Shakespeare and many others

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