Rachel Johnson

Property SpecialThe battle for Notting Hill

Aubrey Square is not for Rachel Johnson, even if she could afford it

issue 29 March 2003

John Prescott’s plans to erect hundreds of thousands of new homes on – I’m going to use that disgusting word – ‘brownfield’ sites has not, so far as I know, caused a further outbreak of nimbyism in my neighbourhood. In Notting Hill, there is an embarras of new building already.

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