Save Walthamstow’s Town Square

To Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
CC Deputy Mayor (Housing) James Murray

Dear Mr Khan,

I would like first to congratulate you on managing to secure 50% genuinely affordable homes in the former Holloway Prison redevelopment. I was also delighted to hear in your LBC phone-in with James O’Brien on 4th January that you are going to insist on a minimum of 50% genuinely affordable homes as a firm requirement for all agreements with developers on land under your control, and that you have redefined ‘affordable’ in terms of average income rather than the market values of properties. This seems to me to be a fine example of the Labour Party’s determination to stand up for the ordinary people of London in the face of pressures towards gentrification and the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the less affluent out of the way of the better off, and finally of the super-rich.… Read on ...