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Government confirms Crews Hill in Enfield and Thamesmead riverside picked as New Town locations
Sadiq Khan deputy hints at major policy shift to increase homebuilding
Enfield: Local Green Belt housing event hears polite but firmly-opposed views
Sadiq Khan calls for government rethink on ‘fair funding’ for London boroughs
Charles Wright: London’s affordable housing supply looks likely to recover. But how strongly?
Where in London will government New Towns go? Two places are getting mentioned
Protecting Workers on the Track: An encounter and a dispute
News: Headphones on please, says Transport for London
Culture
Julie Hamill: Bowie overshadowed
Something - or someone - is missing from the V&A collection in east London

Elin Morgan: Reviving London’s historic drinking fountains
With the ownership of water an issue for concerned debate, there is much to be learned from the pioneers of public provision

John Vane: Farringdon chuggers
Their flattery was energetic but it failed

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Jack Brown
Jack Brown is lecturer in London Studies at King’s College and author of The London Problem.

Julie Hamill
Julie Hamill is a novelist, author, Times Radio pundit, Dublin Castle DJ, former Adland party-crasher and much more. She comes from Airdrie, but she lives in Dollis Hill.

Richard Brown
Richard Brown is a freelance writer and consultant who has worked for an array of major London organisations, including Centre for London, the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency.

Charles Wright
Charles Wright has been a journalist with the Ham & High and a London borough councillor and press officer, and has a wealth of other experience working for London local and regional government bodies
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Dave Hill
On London founder and editor Dave Hill has been a freelance writer since 1981 and an award-winning London specialist since 2008.
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