Everyone, in the run-up to the election, agrees that many thousands of new homes are needed in and around London. Some are even so bold as to suggest that this should be done by social housing providers, or, shockingly, by local authorities. So we might expect a lot of new housebuilding after the election and, on cue, venerable housing association Peabody has announced plans to build thousands of homes in Thamesmead, south-east London. This was the location of a previous attempt to solve London's housing problems, intended as a 'new town', but unfinished and demonised, largely on account of its role in Stanley Kubrick's film of A Clockwork Orange.
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