Liverpool Street and the Art of Dismissing the Public
“First the Chair called the objections ‘repetition’. Then he called them ‘copy and paste’. That is how democratic evidence becomes noise.”
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.
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”
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."
