Social housing project faces extra costs due to Bakerloo line extension

A housing development on the Old Kent Road is being affected by the future Bakerloo line extension, as it will sit right above the safeguarded land for the tube tunnels, if and when they are built.
Proposed block of flats on Old Kent Road – Levitt Bernstein
As the housing development is a social housing project, Southwark Council has agreed to use some of its developer contributions (CIL) to offset the extra costs of building above the future tube tunnels.
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