Biggs: Westferry revelations have 'blown apart' confidence in planning system

By Dan Peters | 25 June 2020

The latest revelations about the controversial Westferry Printworks application have ‘blown apart’ confidence in the planning system under local government secretary Robert Jenrick, Tower Hamlets LBC’s mayor, John Biggs, has said.

Mr Jenrick released ‘all relevant information’ relating to the application ‘using the Freedom of Information Act as a benchmark’ after pressure from chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Clive Betts.

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