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. But Tom Copley, Labour London Assembly housing spokesperson, said this amounted to the council "using all the loopholes at their disposal to rush through these underhand ... demolition plans".
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