Martin commenting on Delancey's withdrawl of their proposals for CJ:

“This is a victory for the 1,000-plus people who have sent in objections or signed petitions against these 42-storey towers.  I’m grateful to everyone who has raised their voice and this surely proves that people power can work. It’s been a tremendous campaign and it shows that people really do still care about their town centre.  I think the message is clear that we all want improvements to Clapham Junction station, but we shouldn’t have to pay for them by agreeing to 42-storey towers that would be totally out of scale with our town centre.  

“I will be writing to the Office of the Rail Regulator to ask him to take another look at the capital programme for improvements to Clapham Junction station now that we know that the Delancey development is not going ahead. I also hope we can now keep the jobs at PCS and other employers that were threatened by the development.

“Most of all I hope Wandsworth Council will now adopt a saner policy on tall buildings in the borough. It’s clear that the overwhelming majority of people feel that 42-storey blocks are out of place in our town centres and it’s important that Wandsworth should write that into their planning documents so that developers know what they can and what they can’t build in the future.”