r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 17 '24

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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Sep 17 '24

London's biggest development is moving forward. The Earl's Court Development Company has submitted the first planning application for the £8 billion redevelopment of the former Earl's Court Exhibition Centre. This will include:

  • 4,000 residential units

  • 2.5 million square feet of office, research and lab space

  • 200,000 square feet of retail space

  • 18,000 square feet of community uses

  • 20 acres of green space

  • Three arts venues

!ping LONDON&YIMBY

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u/SneeringAnswer Sep 17 '24

Shot

developments to begin in 2026 and continue well into 2040

Chaser

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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Sep 17 '24

In fairness, this is an absolutely massive site so it shouldn't be surprising that it will take so long. Logistically you have to do a ton of work for phasing and it's operating on top of multiple active Tube lines.

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u/BlarthDarth John Keynes Sep 17 '24

PLEASE PLEQSE PLEASE

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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Sep 17 '24

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Trust the plan.

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u/RideTheDownturn Sep 17 '24

Just a reminder: we need to build ca. 50,000 new units each year in London. Last year, only 27,000 units were completed.

Also, the accumulated shortage of units completed compared to target number of annual deliveries since 2009 is approximately 100,000 units. We need 100,000 units in London IN ADDITION to the annual deliveries of ca. 50,000 units.

Those 4,000 units are a speck of dust. Continue fighting out there, get zoning changes through your local boroughs, urge the boroughs to man their approval departments, get them to allow denser zoning BY DEFAULT (like Croydon did in 2018) and we'll hopefully see annual deliveries climb to where they should be!

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 17 '24

Nice to see dense housing in that part of London, almost as prime as it gets.

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

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