Last Updated: 31 May 07Supporting Sustainable Development

Housing

This has not proved a contentious issue so far and 25% of the housing that is planned will be affordable housing.

Will this be without strings however? As reported in the New Economics Foundation's Clone Town Britain, in 2005 in their Streatham development, Tesco cleverly secured a proportion of the affordable housing that it was obliged to provide, as housing for its own staff.