Housing
Residents reveal the ‘bleak’ reality of living inside iconic London attraction
November 5, 2025Nestled in the heart of London’s financial and cultural nucleus lies one of the city’s most iconic residential estates: The Barbican. Often described as a ‘city within a city,’ the Barbican Estate offers its 4,000 residents a distinctive living experience, blending brutalist architectural grandeur with a self-sustaining, community-driven lifestyle. Over four decades since its opening, […]
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Victorian asylum in ‘peaceful’ south London town to be turned into flats
November 1, 2025In a quiet suburb in Croydon, a Victorian Gothic chapel stands as one of the remaining sentinels of Cane Hill Hospital, a sprawling psychiatric facility. The chapel at Chaucer Gardens, one of the few surviving structures from the former Cane Hill Hospital, is set to undergo a significant transformation into a mixed-use development combining residential […]
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‘Dullest place in London’ to get a major upgrade with 2,900 new homes
October 31, 2025A significant planning approval has been granted for the development of 2,977 new homes on the site of a former gasworks in East London. St William, which is part of the Berkeley Group, intends to invest £250 million for the redevelopment of 30 acres of the former Beckton Gasworks, a site which has been derelict […]
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What I Own: We paid a £300,000 deposit for our £715,000 Canning Town two-bed flat
October 25, 2025Welcome back to What I Own – Metro’s property series where we speak to homeowners about getting on the ladder. When Hannah Tool and Miles French first started looking to move back to London, they knew they wanted to be somewhere familiar. Having previously owned a flat in Deptford, South London, they’d been living abroad for a few […]
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The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation | Aditya Chakrabortty
October 24, 2025Fan of true crime? Then this column is for you. Rather than some cold case told through yellowing newspapers and sepia photos, this one is still happening. And just wait for the plot twist! But first let me outline the key facts; your challenge is to decide who’s guilty. Our crime scene is a redbrick […]
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The ‘overlooked’ London area undergoing an £80,000,000 regeneration
October 21, 2025Once a quiet corner on the edge of Bexley and Greenwich, Abbey Wood is fast becoming one of southeast London’s most exciting areas — with new homes, better transport links, and a growing sense of local pride. The introduction of the Elizabeth line has radically improved connectivity to central London, contributing to a surge in […]
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Don’t cut London’s affordable housing quotas, Labour MPs urge ministers and mayor
October 20, 2025Labour MPs are urging ministers and the London mayor to drop controversial plans to reduce affordable housing quotas in the capital in order to boost homebuilding. MPs have said they are concerned about the proposals being drawn up by the housing secretary, Steve Reed, and the mayor, Sadiq Khan, in response to a sudden drop […]
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Will affordable housing be the casualty as London tackles its building emergency?
October 20, 2025Sadiq Khan has known for a while that he has a problem with housebuilding in London. But last week a consultancy published figures about the scale of the problem, which prompted full-scale alarm in City Hall and Whitehall. The analysis from Molior showed that new housebuilding in the capital had collapsed. Only 40,000 homes are […]
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What I Own: I bought my £1,450,000 Wimbledon five-bed without ever viewing it
October 18, 2025Welcome back to What I Own – Metro’s property series where we speak to homeowners about getting on the ladder. Married couple, James and Jayne, were jetting off on their two-week holiday in 2019, when they decided to have a quick browse of Rightmove at the airport. They stumbled across a five-bedroom home in Wimbledon, just around the […]
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London area branded ‘a complete toilet’ to get huge revamp
October 16, 2025Plans to revamp a ‘depressing’ part of London will see more than 1,700 new homes created in the area, though reaction from the local community has been mixed. Developer Landsec Lewisham Limited has submitted an extensive redevelopment proposal for the Lewisham Shopping Centre, signalling a significant transformation of the town centre over the next decade. […]
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