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21
Feb
Who Captures Liverpool Street? A Political Economy of Network Rail & ACME

Who Captures Liverpool Street? A Political Economy of Network Rail & ACME

Without a station first baseline, without a clearly costed and deliverable minimum scope that could be pursued without the commercial overbuild, the city cannot honestly judge what it is buying and what it is surrendering.
17 min read
16
Feb
Who Captures Liverpool Street? A Political Economy of Network Rail & ACME

Who Captures Liverpool Street? A Political Economy of Network Rail & ACME

Liverpool Street Station’s redevelopment has now been approved, a 19–3 vote taken under conditions that made “public benefit”
6 min read
11
Feb
Liverpool Street Station Approved — A 19–3 Vote, and the Managed Uncertainty of “Public Benefit”

Liverpool Street Station Approved — A 19–3 Vote, and the Managed Uncertainty of “Public Benefit”

"A funding model presented as inevitable, without a transparent baseline, shifts risk to the public and certainty to the developer."
8 min read
02
Feb
Liverpool Street Station Redevelopment: A Hearing Designed to Pass, Not to Listen

Liverpool Street Station Redevelopment: A Hearing Designed to Pass, Not to Listen

When democratic time is rationed, the city is not merely rebuilt; it is re-owned - socially, politically, and morally.
14 min read
20
Dec
Brick Lane, Rendered Legible to Capital

Brick Lane, Rendered Legible to Capital

A city is not an investment pipeline. It is a shared public life built over generations — and the right to live it cannot be priced as an “acceptable” loss.
10 min read
15
Dec
Final Day — Brick Lane on the Scales: Class, Capital and the Financialised City

Final Day — Brick Lane on the Scales: Class, Capital and the Financialised City

31 October 2025, Tower Hamlets Town Hall. On the last afternoon of the Truman Brewery Inquiry, the microphones were the
12 min read
08
Dec
Day 9 (Afternoon) — Need, Weight, and the Test of “Good Growth”

Day 9 (Afternoon) — Need, Weight, and the Test of “Good Growth”

Tower Hamlets is, by the appellant’s own concession, “more acutely in need of housing than any other borough in London”
19 min read
03
Dec
Day 9 – Light, Language and the Right to Remain

Day 9 – Light, Language and the Right to Remain

“This crisis, we all know, is the housing crisis… Kensington has zero data centres. Westminster has one. Why should the most densely populated borough in London be the one with over 30? Why must the most marginalized people in our city be forced out by speculation-based real estate?”
13 min read
30
Nov
The Ayelsham Inquiry Day Four — Maximum Reasonable: Housing Need, Viability and Who Gets to Stay in Peckham

The Ayelsham Inquiry Day Four — Maximum Reasonable: Housing Need, Viability and Who Gets to Stay in Peckham

The scheme’s viability is calculated not against the need profile of Peckham, but against the investment horizon of a PLC
13 min read
21
Nov
The Ayelsham Inquiry Day Three — The Arithmetic of Clearance: Viability and the Price of Peckham’s Future

The Ayelsham Inquiry Day Three — The Arithmetic of Clearance: Viability and the Price of Peckham’s Future

Prelude — The People Around the Table By the third day of the Aylesham Centre Inquiry, the cast was familiar; what
13 min read