{"id":117362,"date":"2020-06-26T01:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-jenrick-desmond-row-lays-bare-the-rotten-heart-of-the-uk-planning-system-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T02:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:02:58","slug":"the-jenrick-desmond-row-lays-bare-the-rotten-heart-of-the-uk-planning-system-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-jenrick-desmond-row-lays-bare-the-rotten-heart-of-the-uk-planning-system-simon-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jenrick-Desmond row lays bare the rotten heart of the UK planning system | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe random luxury towers going up around Britain have everything to do with profits, nothing to do with housingThe law was broken. There is no argument. At a dinner, a planning minister, Robert Jenrick, sat next to a developer who attempted to lobby him to allow a gigantic \u00a31bn project in London\u2019s Docklands. He then reversed a public decision of his own department, and he expedited it to save the developer, Richard Desmond, some \u00a340m in local levy. His party then accepted an admittedly paltry sum of money from Desmond. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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