London is starting to build more council homes
Overcoming NIMBYs and space constraints to do so
TO THE UNTRAINED eye, the small football pitch and bumpy grass mounds between two post-war council flat blocks in Bells Garden estate do not look like much. To Lewis Schaffer, a professional comic from New York who lives nearby, they are the front line in a battle with Southwark council. If the council gets its way three new blocks will soon fill the space. Mr Schaffer sees this as the height of stupidity. “You wouldn’t build on Central Park, would you?”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Spaces inbetween”
Britain June 5th 2021
- Boris Johnson seeks a state fit for crisis
- The fight to define the great British garden
- Rishi Sunak is worried about rising interest rates. He should relax
- MPs are returning to Parliament in a rebellious mood
- England’s school catch-up tsar resigns in protest
- London is starting to build more council homes
- Boris Johnson’s government wants more patriotic cultural institutions
- A parallel society is developing in parts of Muslim Britain
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