Market forces developer to quit Wards Corner ‘regeneration’
Latin American market traders in Tottenham are ‘ecstatic’ as a developer withdraws from its ‘regeneration’ of Wards Corner.
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Regeneration
BALLOT BIAS: ‘Democracy’ used to destroy people’s homes
“I don’t believe it was a true vote,” says Agnes Thomas, an east Londoner who has lived on the Carpenters Estate in east London for 52 years. Thomas criticises the ‘Yes’/No’ estate demolition and ‘regeneration’ ballot held by Newham Council in December 2021.
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MARKET FORCES: developer quits Tottenham Wards Corner regeneration
Corporate developers rarely withdraw from lucrative London ‘regeneration’ schemes. But Grainger has announced its withdrawal from Wards Corner in Tottenham.
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London: a Real Estate City as seen from the People’s Palace
The view of London from Alexandra Palace conceals more than it reveals. A ‘havoc’ of luxury residential and office towers gives London’s skyline a jagged edge. They are the product of an unaccountable and powerful alliance between global corporate capital interests and a cadre of London’s leading politicians, including the Mayor of London. This opaque ‘local market state’ severely cramps the life chances of working Londoners on average and lower incomes, demolishing Londoners’ secure council homes – and then denying Londoners the secure and genuinely affordable homes they desperately need.
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