The newly-formed planning committee of Labour-run Greenwich Council decided recently to block two housing schemes in the borough which between them would produce over 1,000 new homes and both which reached Sadiq Khan’s 35% affordable “threshold” requirement, designed to speed housing delivery. As Estates Gazette reported, both a 771 home Charlton Riverside scheme and a 272 home Harrow […]
There was an impressive sense of unanimity – as well as an impressive line-up of speakers, from Transport for London boss Mike Brown and new deputy mayor for transport Heidi Alexander to acclaimed postmodernist architect Sir Terry Farrell – at the Centre for London’s recent conference looking at the Mayor’s transport strategy. Among London policy-makers, […]
Labour Party members in the Chingford and Woodford Green constituency have chosen think tank director Faiza Shaheen as their parliamentary candidate to challenge local Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith at the next election. Shaheen, who grew up in Chingford, supports Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party and was chosen from an all female and black […]
Earlier this year, shadow housing secretary John Healey produced proposals for addressing the nation’s housing problems that were described by the excellent Jules Birch at Inside Housing as “the most comprehensive plan for affordable housing put forward in England for 40 years”. Healey’s green paper pledged that a Labour government would deliver 100,000 “genuinely affordable” […]
If Conservatives in their totemic parliamentary seat of Chingford and Woodford Green have been fretting about the erosion of Iain Duncan Smith’s majority to less than 2,500 votes, they might be heartened by indications that his Labour challenger at the next general election will be the Full Jeremy – not, perhaps, the sort of politician likely to […]
Such is the allure of London protest politics for media of every type and size that the city is now routinely depicted as a place where venal politicians, rich foreigners and grasping property tycoons conspire on a daily basis to destroy neighbourhoods and “push out the poor” against the wishes of “the community”. From this crude […]
London Councils, the organisation that represents the capital’s 32 borough councils and the City of London Corporation, has elected Southwark’s Labour leader Peter John as its new chair for the next four years. John, who was previously the cross-party body’s deputy chair and its executive member for business, skills and learning, has led Southwark since May […]
Only four of the capital’s 32 councils underwent changes of political control at the elections a fortnight ago, and in two cases the change was not very significant. The replacement of Conservative administrations in Kingston and Richmond by the Liberal Democrats – in the latter case with help from the Greens – were clear cut. […]
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