Hansom: Breaking news

By Hansom2018-06-15T06:00:00

Haringey should take a look at Croydon to see how long it takes to build homes and there’s yet more bad news for Carillion employees

Apartments in the air

Some food for thought for those at Haringey council thinking about binning Lendlease and building those promised 6,000 homes in the north London borough themselves … One of my hacks was out with the head of Croydon council’s development company Brick by Brick recently and enquired how many homes it had built since it was set up at the beginning of 2015. The answer given by Colm Lacey was interesting: none. The first is due to be completed next February, which he explained was after four years of work getting it off the ground. The grass is always greener – a motto Haringey councillors seem hell-bent on proving.

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