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10 storey block approved for Putney High Street / Putney Bridge Road

A government inspector has over-ruled a Wandsworth Council decision and given the go ahead to the redevelopment of part of the corner of Putney High Street and Putney Bridge Road...
https://cjag.org/2020/01/14/big-blow-for-the-council-development-granted-in-appeal-after-inspector-says-that-it-is-not-dissimilar-to-what-wandsworth-is-allowing-usually/#more-7883

Adrian Pearce ● 2492d7 Comments

Oh, no!!!

Ivonne Holliday ● 2492d

Brown envelopes all round ...

Sue Hammond ● 2492d

What do you mean brown envelopes everywhere????

Ivonne Holliday ● 2492d

I suppose you can't really tell them to get on their bike. More cars then for all the residents.

Barbara Stevens ● 2492d

@IvonneIt's an old journalistic term for backhanders ...😉

Sue Hammond ● 2492d

I think the term came into use as in the dim distant past it was a number of fivers in an anonymous looking, brown, envelope that could have contained official documents? But fivers were worth something in the 1950s and there weren't any AML rules then ... 

Michael Ixer ● 2492d

Who buys in those buildings? Prices are usually 30-50% above second hand. I'm surprised that they managed to market all the new builds on Upper Richmond Road.

Marc Blanchard ● 2490d