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"London needs to show the world that it can sympathetically repair, regenerate and rebuild itself. "

Why exactly?

"It cannot allow developers, well versed in bypassing London and National planning policies, to ignore the local community majority and publicly elected Councillors in order to raze neighbourhoods."

It hasn't. Last time I looked Boris was elected and has a mandate and powers to do exactly as he has done.

If anything more effort should be spent on urban fabric that is genuinely at risk of losing amenity from the public good. We aren't short of 'cultural heritage' whatever that means and what part of the neighbourhood is razed by this proposal that will be actually missed by the neighbourhood? Nothing so trite as progress at all costs but pragmatic dispensation of our collective public good will has more meaning when directed at effectual change.