Huge £1.3 billion development at Mortlake goes ahead after 10-year planning battle

It added: “The proposal would deliver housing to the area, including affordable housing, which when considered in the context of the local need, would provide public benefits. There would be substantial design and educational benefits and the development would also secure the optimum viable use of the site, together with other benefits of lesser importance… considered in totality, the public benefits are significant, measurable, and deliverable.”