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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
Lewis Baston: Hounslow by-election hold gives Labour little to cheer about
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: Whiteleys revisited
It was one of London's first and most prestigious department stores and has a rather colourful history

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Lewis Baston
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