{"id":26778,"date":"2018-02-04T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/04\/anger-over-glut-of-posh-ghost-towers-planned-for-london\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:05:12","slug":"anger-over-glut-of-posh-ghost-towers-planned-for-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=26778","title":{"rendered":"Anger over glut of \u2018posh ghost towers\u2019 planned for London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councils in capital have approved thousands of \u00a31m-plus flats despite crisis in affordable housing, new figures showLondon councils have granted property developers planning permission to build more than 26,000 luxury flats priced at more than \u00a31m each, despite fears that there are already too many half-empty \u201cposh ghost towers\u201d in the capital.Builders are currently constructing towers containing 7,749 homes priced between \u00a31m and \u00a310m, and have planning rights to build another 18,712 high-end apartments and townhouses, the Observer can reveal. Politicians and housing campaigners said the figures show councils are prioritising the needs of the super-rich over those of hardworking young Londoners. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/feb\/04\/anger-over-glut-of-posh-ghost-towers-london\" target=\"_blank\">Anger over glut of \u2018posh ghost towers\u2019 planned for London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councils in capital have approved thousands of \u00a31m-plus flats despite crisis in affordable housing, new figures showLondon councils have granted property developers planning permission to build more than 26,000 luxury flats priced at more than \u00a31m each, despite fears that there are already too many half-empty \u201cposh ghost towers\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}