10/07/2017 London News

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The Mayor has described the decision to cut the number of affordable

homes at the Battersea Power Station development as "shameful

The multi-billion pound project will have More than 4,200

The multi-billion pound project will have more than 4,200

Fifteen per cent were meant to be affordable.

The developer insists it's down to rising cost.

Marc Ashdown has the story and his report contains

Since it closed in 1983, rows over its future have been

as dominant as its place on London's skyline.

What to do about the problem is large and complex

What to do about the problem as large and complex

as Battersea Power Station has occupied planners and headline

I have been covering stories on Battersea Power Station

for about the past 20 years since writing for a local

Back then in the mid-1990s, the plan was for a theme park here.

When that was derailed it was eventually sold

They put forward multiple plans, including one for a restaurant

When that failed it was sold to an Irish consortium,

but then the financial crash hit and the whole lot

They launched the project in Malaysia and while the then mayor

was firmly on board his successor has criticised Wandsworth,

the local council, for allowing the amount of affordable housing

Me being generous, the council have been hoodwinked,

Londoners will not unreasonably be asking questions why is this council

bending over backwards to reduce the amount of the affordable homes

and giving in to the request of developers making a huge profit?

Wandsworth point out it has delivered the second-highest number

of affordable homes in London and this project will deliver

a new tube stop and 25,000 jobs in the area.

The developer says it will deliver for the community.

The policy is about homes and also about jobs,

so we are 50% commercial and 50% residential.

20,000 new jobs across the site and 2 billion

Actually now what we have is an agreement that it

If we perform fantastically well, we provide more than that.

All this cannot come soon enough say some with so many people

The impact this has on the housing crisis really should

Rents are going up, homelessness is going up,

This is all because we do not have enough homes and we do not have

enough genuinely affordable homes and developers wriggling out

of their obligations, reducing them, makes things a lot worse.

There is no doubt this development will breathe life

finally into this area, but how much it will truly benefit

Murder detectives are investigating after a 13-year-old boy died

from an allergic reaction at his school in Greenford.

A fellow pupil has been arrested and released on bail.

Katharine Carpenter is here, what more do we know?

This all took place nearly two weeks ago on the 28th of June when police

were called to the William Perkins Church of England high school in

Greenford. They found a 13-year-old boy who was suffering a severe

allergic reaction. We do not know at this stage what he was allergic to.

He was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition where he

died yesterday with his parents by his side. We do know the boy's name

but we have decided not to broadcast it in accordance with his parents'

wishes. His school has spoken out today, his headteacher talking of

He was really well integrated into his peer group.

The students have first of all sent a lot of good wishes to him

in hospital and subsequently have spent time in the chapel

It has been a very sad time for the school.

What can you tell us about the police investigation? It was not

just the Ambulance Service that was called that morning, the police were

also summoned. It had become clear that some sort of incident had taken

place which caused the boy to come into contact with this particular

allergen. We do not know any more, but we know a fellow pupil, a

13-year-old, was arrested and questioned by police and he has now

been released on police bail. To give you a sense of the seriousness

of this incident, this was being dealt with by Ealing Borough and is

now being dealt with by the homicide and major crime command. The schools

say they did have a care plan in place for this boy and they are

reviewing their own procedures. Traders say they have lost

everything in a massive fire that broke out last night in Camden

Market. Although no-one was hurt it took 70

firefighters to control the blaze. It's the second major fire to hit

the market in a decade. Millions come here every year

to shop in the market. For some hours it looked

like it might be lost. Firefighters managed

to contain the blaze and thankfully no one was hurt,

but dozens of London traders had Yvonne had just been taken to see

the shell of her jewellery store My friend called me at 12

o'clock and I was sleeping I thought it was an emergency call

and I took the phone up and I called her back and she said

Camden Market is on fire. Everything has gone, it has

all gone, everything, definitely. It was the central market hall where

it is thought the fire started, another decades-old guitar store

was also lost. The owners have still got their shop

nearby but ?10,000 worth of stock Coming here and seeing all the glass

just smashed in and black and the roof completely gone I feel

really emotional, quite shocked Ten fire engines were

on the scene in minutes. 70 firefighters fought to stop

the spread to nearby An investigation into how the fire

started is under way. It was a well-developed

fire when we got here. Fire crews worked very hard

to contain within that area of the property and we managed

to save the rest of the property. It is the second time in recent

years the North London market has In February 2008 a fire put many

waterside traders out The issue we had there is it took

weeks for traders to be relocated to a new position to trade

and for a lot of market if you lose one week's trade,

you are done. Traders were confident this

tight-knit community will pull together to support

those worst affected. Most of all, many were just

grateful knowing it could He has devoted much of his life to

looking after the 2500 acres of Richmond Park. Now the gamekeeper

who has been there for three decades is retiring. After 30 years John

Bartram is saying goodbye to the workplace he has loved. The best job

in the world. It is a job everybody wanted. John Bartram has spent most

of his life as gamekeeper in Richmond Park, all 2500 acres of it,

and no one knows the place better. We are looking for Stags. Every day

he has checked on the 600 animals and every year search for newborns

in the bracken. I have done it sometimes and the baby things I am

the mother and I have walked away and he is running behind me. But as

well as life, he has had to deal with a fair bit of death. While we

were filming another call came in. A dead deer. If you find the sight of

dead animals upsetting, you may like to look away, but for John this is

part of the job. It could have been hit by a car. That is what you are

here for. There have been times when it has been hit by a car and is

still alive but in serious trouble and it needs dealing with and you

might have to shoot it. As gamekeeper John was also tasked with

the annual cull where for three months of the year selected animals

are shot to keep the population to 600. You are going for the worst

animal every time, so you are looking for one you think in a

natural world a pack of wolves would take it out. Until the policy

changed, John would prepare venison meat from the cult for Buckingham

Palace and, politicians. They would all get a free haunch. No one gets a

free haunch now. Toni Blair stopped it, and the Labour Party. Not even

the Queen? No. Some things may have changed, but in many ways Richmond

Park is still the place it was when first established in 1637. Now it is

saying farewell to a gamekeeper who gave it the best years of his life.

I'll say goodnight now and let's get a check

This is not a weather watcher picture, this is a forecast of what

is to come. Rain is on its way. It was a bit of a different beast today

because some of you saw some pretty sharp showers and thunderstorms

rolling across the top end of our patch. Many of you will stay dry

overnight, 12-15 should just about cover it. Not as steamy as last

week. It looks as though tomorrow it is rain from the word go? It is not

the case, it is light and patchy and many of you could get through the

morning into the afternoon before you see anything like a meaningful

drop of rain. How does that leave Wimbledon? Not too bad to start

with. There is a chance of a shower, but later on, deeper in the day, it

will start raining and it will be a wet night right across the piece.

There is no escaping from this. You could see an inch of rain. On

Wednesday the rain clears away and we are left with a decent sort of

day as a ridge of high pressure comes in from the Atlantic. That

gives us a pretty decent end to the week, 22 or 23 degrees. If you have

got a plan week, 22 or 23 degrees. If you have

got a plan for the weekend, there are not any great fireworks and the

weather should not get in the way. It has been a Monday characterised

by sunny spells and scattered showers and a bit of heat as well.

In the South resource 27 degrees today. Tomorrow it will be much

fresher with rain. We have some showers today and this was

Lincolnshire early on. Not a typical July afternoon. Most of the showers

were in eastern England, some of them heavy with thunder. In the last

few hours we have seen 25 millimetres of rain with isolated

and potent showers on the Kent coast. They will fade away. In the

west we see cloud and patchy outbreaks of rain overnight. Not

quite