With the government reportedly needing to fill a financial hole of “at least £50 billion” with tax hikes and spending cuts amid concerns that the UK economy is growing more slowly than forecast, the country’s dependence on London’s services economy has been underlined by the latest overview from City Hall economists. The October edition of […]
Earlier this year Sadiq Khan trumpeted his “record-breaking” performance on delivering new affordable housing in the capital, with 18,722 new homes getting underway in 2021/22, more than in any year since 2003. But he will need to break his own record again by March next year to hit his overall target of starting 116,000 new […]
Ten years after the unanswerable sporting glories of London 2012, questions about the legacy of what we now call the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park continue to be raised and wrangled over. And so they should be: large regeneration promises were made, a lot of public money was invested, and people living in that part of […]
Media coverage of the tenth anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has, with one welcome exception, been miserabilist or non-existent – what some might call a very British attitude to what was not only a superb sporting event but also the culmination of an extraordinary feat of infrastructure delivery few believed Britain […]
Tunnelling work has begun on the new Silvertown road tunnel, which will link Newham and the Greenwich Peninsula to form the first new Thames road crossing east of Tower Bridge for over 30 years when it opens in 2025. Early construction work on the twin-bore scheme, which will be 1.4 kilometres (0.86 miles) long, began […]
Since he was elected in May 2016 it has been Sadiq Khan’s policy that 50 per cent of housing built on public land under his control should meet his definition of being “genuinely affordable”. Important further steps towards the implementation of that policy on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park have been taken in recent weeks […]
Every component of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park tells its own, distinctive part of the larger regeneration story that continues to unfold ten years after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. That of Here East, the collective name for the two large buildings that housed the media during London 2012, is as revealing as any […]
Millennium Mills is an imposing former flour factory that has stood for more than 100 years on the south side of the Royal Victoria Dock and been unused for most of them. Completed in its original form in 1905, it was named after Millennium Flour, a variety manufactured by the building’s original creators, William Vernon […]
