Developers don’t want to spend money on us - but they will if we make them | Catherine Shoard
by Catherine Shoard from on (#1CNX8)
The nature reserve opened by David Attenborough received some funding from developers, but not enough. We need to strike much harder bargains
Happy anticipation ahead of the opening of a new nature reserve. Until last weekend, there had been more coverage in the property supplements than the news pages. This is because Woodberry Wetlands is on the doorstep of a set of glitzy tower blocks in east London (425,000 for a one-bed) ,which now dominate the local skyline and whose possible rights and wrongs - neat landscaping, nice views, displaced estate residents, decades of disruption for some who remain - dictate discussions down the pub.
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