Row over Westminster estate demolition plans

By Will Ing2019-09-25T05:00:00

Ebury Bridge Estate will make way for £350m housing development

Westminster council has been accused of “underhand and unscrupulous” behaviour to fast-track demolition of a 1930s estate to make way for a £350m housing development to be built in the shadow of the upmarket Chelsea Barracks residential scheme.

A planning application for the 750-home development on the site of the Ebury Bridge Estate has yet to be approved.

But permission for demolition of 336 homes was granted through a prior approvals process under the permitted development rights legislation.

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