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Camden’s dysfunctional planning department discussed on BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth

Selkirk House tower at Museum Street. BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth programme discusses the alternatives to demolition. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Camden Council proudly declared a climate and ecological emergency in 2019 and its subsequent action plan was supposed to show how it would put into practice across the borough. Demolition and construction accounts for a significant contribution to…

Derwent London plans major demolition and redevelopment on Tottenham Court Road

Derwent London, the property development company who eleven years ago said “we want to get rid of the idea that we will come in and knock everything down”, is planning to knock down yet another large building, adding to the pile of rubble it has already trucked out of Fitzrovia.

The Network Building on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Howland Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

Derwent plans…