Building on the green belt crucial to solving London’s housing crisis
Alexandra Jones writes in the Guardian on Boris Johnson's legacy on housing.
Alexandra Jones writes in the Guardian on Boris Johnson's legacy on housing.
In a city with demand for housing as high as London, it might seem odd for the mayor to intervene to stop office space and commercial properties being redeveloped as new homes.
Yet that’s exactly what Boris Johnson did last week, by publishing new guidance aimed at preserving the capital’s “central activities zone”, which runs from Paddington to Aldgate, for retail, office, cultural and business use, and to ensure that these areas don’t get lost to new housing.
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