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Government to reopen inquiry into controversial Westferry scheme
Planning Inspectorate to consider new issues before recommending if £1bn PLP project should be approved
The government’s independent planning arm is being given another chance to decide whether to recommend PLP’s controversial Westferry Printworks scheme in east London for approval, after the earlier permission for the scheme was quashed when the housing secretary admitted “apparent” bias.
Just before Christmas, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) wrote to stakeholders on the 1,500-home scheme to tell them the planning inquiry into the scheme will be reopened.
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