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April 9, 2019

Developers Have To Give Up Control To Win Back Public Trust

One comment pretty much says it all.

“I don’t want to feel like a poor person in my own backyard.”

That was what one resident in Tottenham, North London, told developer Argent Related during its community engagement and consultation process ahead of a planning application for a new 1,000-home scheme.

It sums up the fear existing communities have of new developments and the people who build them — concerns of being economically excluded, pushed aside by new arrivals, by developers focused only on profit, and local authorities that don’t do enough to hold them to account.

“There is a fear that new people, with more money, will come in and disturb the status quo,” Argent Related Project Director Rosie Cade said.

Developers Have To Give Up Control To Win Back Public Trust

“Developers are the new bankers,” Built-ID Chief Executive and founder Savannah de Savary said. “They’re seen as greedy, just coming into communities and taking, not giving. Young people have previously been quite apathetic, but in the post-Grenfell world, the built…

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