Construction industry gossip: Without a paddle

Hansom new 2008

On the banks of the River Thames, there’s all kinds of shenanigans going on – not to mention recent events on a reservoir in north London

Tales of the riverbank

One of my scribes called someone involved with the plan to turn the former ITV Studios building on the South Bank into a mixed-use scheme for his thoughts on it all. It was stalled last month by Michael Gove, and my mole thinks he knows why. “It’s a load of South Bank luvvies who got themselves organised and started complaining,” he says. Beware of dismissing them too lightly, mind. This is the same mob, I should tell you, who did for the Garden Bridge.

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