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Follows what gets built in London and what doesn't: applications, refusals, appeals and the housing numbers underneath.

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A scaffolded tower block stands behind a motionless crane on a fenced building site, next to a blank hoarding panel marked only with a single red stamp, as a lone figure walks past.

14 Aug 2026

Mayor's £50m stalled-estates fund passes its spend deadline with no estates named

The decision set the money against up to 380 affordable homes, about 3 per cent of the starts in the programme it joins.

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A small Tube station entrance stands hoarded off and barred with red-striped tape, dwarfed beneath the scaffolded shell of a huge tower rising above it, with onlookers on the pavement below.

14 Aug 2026

Southwark approves 15-storey student block over Tube station with 44 social rent homes

Jubilee line trains are due not to stop at the station between 09:45 and 16:15 on weekdays until 11 September while the work goes on.

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A single ring-bound document sits in a council office pigeonhole shelf beneath a stamp suspended in mid-air, its mark left as a bare red ring. A back-of-head figure sits at a desk facing a window, beyond which cranes and scaffolding rise against a London skyline.

14 Aug 2026

Lambeth leaves 2024/25 developer contributions statement undecided nine months on

The council's published account still stops at 2023/24, while it approved £4.8m of levy and section 106 spending for 2025/26.

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An oversized blank stamp hovers over a small prefabricated garden shed in a suburban back garden, dwarfing it, with a thin red line marking the stamp's misaligned rim.

14 Aug 2026

London planning dataset labels 832 Haringey schemes major, one of them a garden office

Lambeth's own committee rules treat 10 homes or a half-hectare site as major; the label lands on sash windows and a one-into-two conversion.

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A London skyline of cranes and part-built tower blocks rises behind a blank site hoarding, with small figures walking past on the pavement below. One crane, motionless among the others, is picked out in red.

14 Aug 2026

Mayor's draft London Plan proposes 558,000 homes and a return to 35% thresholds

The Assembly's monitor logged 14,335 affordable starts against a target of 17,800 to 19,000, and the consultation closes on 15 October.

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A tall post-war residential block rises behind a construction hoarding on a London estate. One door in the hoarding is marked with a single red circle, while small figures walk past on the pavement below, dwarfed by the building.

14 Aug 2026

Lambeth orders compulsory purchase at Clapham Park, part of a 2,532-home rebuild

The order covers the interests left on Site C03 and now goes to the Secretary of State, and Lambeth's decision registers since 2020 record no earlier compulsory purchase on the estate.

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