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A car park in Hornchurch is now underway to be developed into housing. Residents living nearby have watched as trees have been cut down, hedges removed, and green buffers stripped away to make room for heavy machinery and concrete. For many Londoners, it has become a familiar pattern — greenery lost, concrete poured.
Havering residents angry at blocks of flats springing up on every spare patch of land should know exactly where the pressure comes from. Housing targets for London boroughs are set by the Mayor of London through the London Plan, the capital’s strategic spatial plan produced by the Greater London Authority. The London Plan establishes ten-year minimum targets for each borough and is the starting point for what local councils must plan to deliver.
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Across London and beyond, local councils are finding themselves squeezed between government housing demands and the realities of stretched infrastructure. Communities are left asking — where will the schools, GP surgeries, and transport links come from to match the surge in new homes?
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While the recent article by Cllr Taylor raises important points about development, it overlooks some critical facts and ongoing efforts by Havering Council.
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Residents have pushed back against proposals for almost 140 new flats in Harold Hill, fearing ‘oversaturation’ and the loss of a local pub.
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Overdevelopment is the enemy of local communities across the East of Greater London. We must fight for our towns more
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Beam Park home owners angry at the empty shell buildings left following the withdrawal of developers after the removal of
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At a recent Preserve meeting, a group set up to tackle the over development in Havering, one of the key
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Havering’s anti-overdevelopment pressure group, PRESERVE, say that the Government’s new Planning laws are a threat to the quality of life
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Hornchurch Resident Association Councillor and Leader of the Opposition, Ray Morgan, today writes in the Havering Daily: Last week, as
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Continuing our series on over development, today Havering’s Leader of the Council, Councillor Damian White writes in the Havering Daily.
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The Havering Daily is today running a poll to ask the community if they feel that over development is a
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