City limits: Why building anything in London is so hard

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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…

This story appeared on economist.com, 2025-05-01 12:59:11.
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