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Readers letters
100 Avenue Road from above during January 2021.
- Credit: Edie Raff
And this reviled behemoth returns
Peter Symonds, Canfield Gardens, Hampstead, writes:
It comes as no surprise to those of us who spent several years fighting Essential Living’s (EL) plans for a 24-storey tower block at Swiss Cottage, to hear them now claim that they’re no longer able to afford to include the promised 36 affordable housing units in their development for the site at 100 Avenue Road (Ham&High). They’ve made similar claims on numerous other multi-million-pound developments, and it was clear from the moment they won their appeal against Camden’s original refusal of this particular project that they were determined to dismantle as many as possible of the conditions of their planning permission as might minimise their vast profits.