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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Adrian Zorzut

Cyber-attack halts planning applications and house sales in London's richest borough

A west London council has admitted 650 planning applications are ‘in limbo’ because officers can no longer access systems after being hit by a crippling cyber attack while some private house sales have fallen through.

Kensington and Chelsea Council said the live applications are at “various stages of the assessment process” and had not yet been determined, according to a report before the authority’s Environment Select Committee.

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