Vital reading in yesterday's Guardian about the processes that are bringing neighbourhood-destroying housing developments to all parts of London.
Entitled "The Truth about property developers: How they are exploiting planning authorities and ruining our cities", the article highlights how inevitably within these massive projects "affordable housing quotas get waived and the interests of residents trampled as toothless authorities bow to the dazzling wealth of investors from Russia, China and the Middle East".
You can read it here: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/17/truth-property-developers-builders-exploit-planning-cities