Haringey Council is set to take further large step towards implementing its extensive redevelopment programme by confirming property giant Lendlease as its “preferred bidder” to transform an area opposite the new Tottenham Hotspur Football Club stadium, known as High Road West The council’s cabinet will make its decision next Tuesday after discussing a recommendation by officers to select the […]
The decision of Labour-run Haringey Council to join forces with property developer Lendlease, flatten and rebuild entire council estates and replace them with new homes of various price levels at higher densities has made even some grown-up London Labour politicians nervous and sent the Protest Left into blissful paroxysms of outrage. Yet in the current context […]
Haringey Council’s decision to go into business with property giant Lendlease and redevelop numerous sites in Tottenham and Wood Green, including large housing estates, has attracted some strong opposition. On the other hand, a spokesperson for London Mayor Sadiq Khan provided the following statement when asked if City Hall supported Haringey’s approach: The Mayor has […]
Property giant Lendlease is set to be selected as Haringey Council’s preferred bidder to form a £2bn “Haringey development vehicle” (HDV) joint venture company and execute plans to transform the borough on what Haringey has called “an unprecedented scale”.
The Conservatives lost control of Wandsworth last Thursday after having a slim majority of councillors for just over a month. That had occurred because in July a Labour councillor for Trinity ward resigned, meaning the council was technically no longer under No Overall Control, as it had been since the full council elections in May. […]
The reorganisation of London local government in 1965 left a crop of redundant town halls across the capital. Hornsey Town Hall was arguably the finest of them. Completed in 1935, it was declared the best new building in London by the Royal Institute of British Architects and later described by the 20th Century Society as […]
Sir Sadiq Khan will continue to oppose Heathrow airport’s third runway plan, according to the draft new London Plan, the blueprint for development across the city over the next two decades, published today. In a snub to government ambitions, the draft says that Heathrow expansion “should be refused unless no unacceptable environmental, transport and congestion […]
There were three by-elections in London on Thursday 9 July, one of them in Camden and two of them in Lambeth. Camden’s Regent’s Park election has been given special treatment in a separate piece but the Lambeth polls had interesting results that conflict with the mild encouragement for Labour in Camden. The 7 May elections […]
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