The Festival of Words: From Gyles Brandreth to Anthony Scaramucci – all you need to know about the Fleet Street Quarter festival
Transforming Elephant & Castle Opinion Elephant & Castle is changing, but its unique cultural history will be protected too, says Rick de Blaby Elephant & Castle is named after a coaching inn at a major crossroads, with the first recorded reference in 1765. By the early 20th century it was known as “The Piccadilly Circus of South London”, centred on [...]
Build, Baby, Build: We’ll never fix the housing crisis without private capital Build, Baby, Build It is only by close collaboration between the public sector, private companies and institutional investors that we’ll be able to deliver housing of all tenures at scale, stabilising the market and ensuring more people are able to live better, says Rick de Blaby As someone who runs a business where a third of our workforce [...]
Reduced notice periods for renters are an open door for party flats Rick de Blaby Renters need more rights, but scrapping minimum tenancy terms would leave landlords unable to stop their properties being used for holiday lets, party flats or worse
London’s rental market is broken – but one solution is hiding in plain sight August 23, 2023 London rents are sky-high and supply is falling further as buy-to-let properties disappear from the market.
