London Mayor ends stalemate over Paddington student towers

Unite has won a long-running planning battle in Paddington after the London Mayor’s office stepped in to overturn Westminster Council and approve its 600-bed Baltic Wharf student towers project.
City Hall’s intervention draws a line under one of Westminster’s most fiercely contested student housing disputes and finally clears the way for construction to start.
The £147m scheme on a Travis Perkins builders’ merchant site had been repeatedly blocked by councillors who