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REPLACING one of London’s landmark pubs with a Foxtons estate agency branch would be part of the capital’s “scandalous social cleansing,” campaigners claimed yesterday.
A pub standing for the tavern which gave Elephant & Castle its name 250 years ago is set to be transformed soon.
Southwark planners received a letter from the estate agents in April advising of their intention to open a branch in place of The Elephant & Castle.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance