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Livingstone Wins Approval for Draft London Plan

LONDON-London Mayor Ken Livingstone's controversial draft London plan has been approved by an independent panel of examiners. The experts approved the requirement for 50% of all residential sites to be allocated for affordable housing.

By Graham Parker | Updated on July 23, 2003

LONDON-The independent panel appointed to conduct an examination in public of the Mayor of London’s draft London Plan has given the plan a strong endorsement, and called for it to be adopted as soon as possible.

The report overwhelmingly supported key elements of the draft London Plan and concluded that the controversial target for providing 50 per cent affordable housing on all new residential developments can be justified and is ‘reasonably practicable’. But it did call for the Mayor to reconsider plans to abolish two protected views of St Paul’s Cathedral. At the moment high-rise development is banned in certain zones in order to protect long-range vistas of the cathedral’s dome.

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