In another blow to London’s industrial heritage, yesterday’s Guardian reports the looming demolition of the Guinness brewery in Park Royal. Brent Council, in collusion with Diageo, the owners of Guinness, plan to clear the site for redevelopment. Whilst this is a valuable tactic to players …
The redevelopment of Stansted airport has “slipped” and already accusations of blame have started flying about between the airlines and the developers. The redevelopment was supposed to ease the congestion currently suffered by Gatwick and Heathrow by doubling Stansted’s traffic. Completion of a new runway …
What Paula Radcliffe paused to do in the streets of London, bid organisers are doing to the locals. It’s possibly the most contrived headline of the week, but it does head a pretty decent article on the damaging effects a London-based 2012 Olympics could have …
According to the GLA website the plans for the redevelopment of the Royal London Hospital have finally been…erm, finalised. Ken wasn’t happy with the original plans because they made it “difficult for people to find their way around” and were just too damn fugly for …
As part of the redevelopment of Silvertown Quays in East London the Zoological Society of London (operators of London Zoo) are proposing a new aquarium. If built Biota! would be one of the largest aquariums in Europe at an estimated cost of £80 million. Not …
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