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London is now a no-go zone for developers, warns capital’s biggest housebuilder after shopping centre plan rejected

London is now a no-go zone for developers, warns capital’s biggest housebuilder after shopping centre plan rejected

Published by Sam Flores

Developers “can no longer invest in new London sites”, the capital’s biggest housebuilder has claimed after its plan to bulldoze an old shopping centre for almost 900 homes was rejected. Berkeley Group‘s bid to knockdown the Aylesham Centre in Peckham was dismissed by the planning inspector this week. The scheme would have seen 867 new flats, 77 of which would be affordable. While the planning inspector said the development would bring “social and economic benefits” and ease Southwark’s “acute” housing shortage, it ruled this would “not outweigh the harm to the relevant designated heritage assets important to the area”. Rob Perrins, Executive Chair at Berkeley Group, said: “This decision demonstrates the extreme uncertainty developers continue to experience within the planning system.” The proposed development at the Aylesham Centre in Peckham (Berkeley Homes) He added: “How can we be allowed to build next to world heritage assets like Tower Bridge, but not here? “If we’re no longer permitted to meet housing needs on brownfield land then where should we build? It would take hundreds of acres …

The no-go zone paradox: Chornobyl’s wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift | Nuclear power

The no-go zone paradox: Chornobyl’s wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift | Nuclear power

Published by Sam Flores

Forty years on from the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chornobyl is still contaminated with almost half the caesium-137 that exploded from the Unit 4 reactor in 1986, as well other hazards such as plutonium, tritium and americium. But according to some experts, the long-term effects on nature may be less than if the area had been left to humans, resulting in unexpected consequences in an environment left to its own devices. The reminder of the protracted fallout from Chornobyl was made ahead of Sunday’s anniversary, which coincides with renewed lobbying for nuclear power and a rise in fears about atomic brinkmanship due to the oil crisis and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The latter conflict continues to threaten Chornobyl and make the contamination worse. It was revealed last month that the giant containment structure around the most radioactive area inside the defunct plant will need €500m (£434m) worth of repairs after a strike by a Russian drone. Wild Przewalski horses graze in a forest inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP …

European Conservative Lawmakers Warn Of ‘No-Go Zones’ Tied To Mass Immigration And Islamization

European Conservative Lawmakers Warn Of ‘No-Go Zones’ Tied To Mass Immigration And Islamization

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A new report backed by European conservative lawmakers is sounding the alarm over what it describes as the spread of “no-go zones” across the European Union, linking the phenomenon directly to mass immigration, Islamization, and the breakdown of state authority in major urban areas. The report was presented at a press conference on Wednesday by Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Weimers, French nationalist MEP Marion Maréchal, and Brothers of Italy MEP Nicola Procaccini. Published by New Direction, the foundation tied to the ECR parliamentary group, the study argues that large parts of Europe are witnessing the rise of “parallel societies where the laws of the State are increasingly replaced by the codes of radicalisation and the rule of violence.” Maréchal said the findings showed the trend was no myth. “France has 751 sensitive areas and 1,362 priority neighborhoods. Our study demonstrates that no-go zones develop according to two factors: immigration and Islamization — 63 percent of Islamist terrorists are linked to these areas,” she said at the launch event. …