Viability, Affordable Homes, Confidential Information Disclosure decision, Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle, Southwark Council, Lend Lease

A tribunal has decided that a south London council and a global developer must disclose hitherto confidential information about the viability of affordable homes in a controversial housing development. Paul Coleman reports.

Former Heygate Estate council maisonettes readied in April 2014 for demolition
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Elephant and Disclosure

A judge and two tribunal members have decided that Southwark Council and global developer Lend Lease must disclose hitherto confidential information about the viability of affordable homes in the controversial Heygate Estate redevelopment scheme at the Elephant and Castle in south London.

For more on this story:

http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2014-05-12-Council-ordered-to-disclose-details-about-viability-of-Heygate-redevelopment-s-affordable-housing#.U3DgtCjfYss


For the full tribunal decision on London Borough of Southwark v Information Commissioner (EA/2013/0162): 

http://www.informationtribunal.gov.uk/Public/search.aspx

Lend Lease build new private homes on the Rodney Road
part of the Heygate Estate during April 2014
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© Paul Coleman, London Intelligence, May 2014