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A DESTRUCTIVE developer’s plan to demolish Earl’s Court to build posh flats will cost thousands of homes and Tube jobs and devastate the local environment, according to a new study published yesterday.
Local residents and campaigners had to pay for the impact assessment out of their own pockets when Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea councils refused to undertake one.
Campaigner Jos Bell said it was “unheard of” for a 20-year construction plan to have no local authority impact assessment or even a review during the building process.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
