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Nicky Gavron and Ken Livingstone created the affordable housing contributions which did so much to extinguish smaller developers and make smaller development so much harder to render viable. That piece of well-intended planning was a key factor in restricting supply, which Nicky & Co are now seeking to rectify. Bit like the nonsense over diesel cars. It doesn't matter how you build the stuff, so long as it is viable and relatively straightforward to do so. But will politicians listen to pragmatic sense? I doubt it very much on the evidence of the last 20 years.