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  • 6 days ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

    The government’s fast-approaching comprehensive spending review is being previewed in assorted ways, including with stories that areas “outside south-east England” will receive “billions of pounds of extra spending”. The telling of this story bears the ingrained insinuation that such monies, being “extra”, will demonstrate a recognition that a regional “rebalancing” needs to take place away from the part of the UK London sits at the heart of.

  • 1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

    Another piece of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics legacy was slotted into place this morning with the ten o’clock opening to the public of V&A East Storehouse. The new space occupies an end of the larger of the two buildings next to the Lee Canal at Hackney Wick that originally formed the Games-time media centre, and now has a whole new life as Here East, a research, innovation and start-up complex.

  • 1 week ago | thisisthewick.com | Dave Hill

    The twist and turns of post-Olympics decision-making that brought 250,000 objects to Here East The Victoria and Albert Museum, known to its friends as the V&A, is executing a twin-track expansion from its ancestral South Kensington home into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The most visible evidence of this is the V&A East Museum, that exotic construction at one end of the four-piece arts and culture terrace on the bank of the Waterworks River near Westfield that forms part of the East Bank...

  • 1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

    Possession of small amounts of natural cannabis for personal use should be decriminalised as part of a wider strategy for reducing harms associated with the drug, according to the London Drugs Commission set up by Sir Sadiq Khan three years ago, whose long-awaited report is published today.

  • 1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

    For most of this century at least, a conspicuous strand of opinion has declared that everything precious about London is being destroyed by big money, especially from abroad. These narratives construct causal connections between property development, especially of housing, and neighbourhood changes that bearers of those narratives dislike, such as the replacement of council-built housing, rises in rent levels and house prices, or the closure of entertainment venues.

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Dave Hill
Dave Hill @DaveHill
7 Jun 25

Is "gentrification" emptying London's schools? It's really not that simple: https://t.co/PWoXoJPDXo #London

Dave Hill
Dave Hill @DaveHill
7 Jun 25

It is simplistic Left-populism to claim that "luxury" flats "push out" established communities. Often, permission for "luxury" flats to be built is conditional on low-cost rent & shared ownership hopes also being provided. It's long been a key mechanism for "affordable" supply.

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Dave Hill
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7 Jun 25

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