Tag: London developments
More than 200 housing units on the table to kick off London’s new year
The new year is getting off to a solid start on the housing front in London, with hundreds of proposed new housing units on the table
Government delays stall Londoner’s plan to build new house: ‘So much red tape’
All he wanted to do was replace a deteriorated home. But a year and a half after getting an OK from the city and months of red tape delays from the province, a London man will have to wait through the winter to get shovels in the ground.
A London highrise takes a haircut, with a notable twist
Yet another towering residential project in London, where housing demand is through the roof, is taking a haircut – and neighbours, again, are at least partly the reason. What’s different this time? The tower proposed by Westdell Development Corp. is being pitched in an area of the northeast ripe for highrise living – in the […]
Growing pains: Five fought-over London building projects
In a growing city struggling to keep up with housing demand, London still gets hung up on small-city opposition – appearances, height, traffic, building density, shadows and more – as new building proposals come on stream.
Tweaked Hyde Park towers approved despite growth, density concerns
A scaled-down proposal for a twin-tower residential development in London’s booming northwest won city council approval Tuesday, but still ran into political opposition. The developer, Highland Communities Ltd., shaved three storeys off each of the two towers, bringing them down to 17 from 20, but even that haircut to address neighbourhood opposition and city hall […]