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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jonathan Prynn

Battersea Power Station under fire from council over low levels of affordable housing

The developers of Battersea Power Station face growing pressure from Wandsworth council to vastly increase the “unacceptably low level” of affordable housing at London’s flagship regeneration project, the Standard has learned.

Original planning permission for the £9 billion scheme required the Malaysian owners of the former electricity generator to build 636 homes classified as “affordable”— around 15 per cent of the total.

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