Why building anything in London is so hard
Brownfield projects are bogged down by bewildering bureaucracy
THE SEVEN giant cast-iron gasholders were once a proud symbol of Victorian engineering. Now brambles cluster around them; the site’s rusty gate has long been padlocked. Having once heated London’s East End, the Bromley-by-Bow gasworks have a prized site: a stone’s throw from Hackney Wick, the city’s hipster frontier, and just over two miles from Canary Wharf, its modern financial district. Until recently it was going to seed.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “City limits ”
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