Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton have signed a petition opposing a development that would provide affordable homes for at least 190 people because it would spoil their views from the other side of the river. One Battersea Bridge is a proposal to turn an ugly, run-down 80s office block into 142 new homes, 50% of which will be for social rent. Despite the urgent need for affordable housing in Wandsworth - where 13,500 people are in the waiting list - rockstar residents of affluent Chelsea are calling for it to be scrapped because it will "will destroy a precious, historical riverside vista".
City AM's Alys Denby spoke to the developer behind the project and an affordable housing campaigner and asks how the government will ever be able to fulfil its promise of building millions of new homes when the planning system allows people living in one of the richest boroughs in the world to get in the way of developments that could help some of London's poorest.
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