Relocation of City Hall

I was not aware that City Hall was owned off shore. So the new proposed Crystal Hall ...who owns the lease of that? Will projected figures be made clear and concise for people of London.
I am getting so cynical nowadays?

They own the docklands building outright. I find it bizarre that a civic building like city hall can be on a lease. It is truly absurd. If you are going to start that game then shipyards not sell of Parliament or the royal palaces?

boroughbloke wrote:

They own the docklands building outright. I find it bizarre that a civic building like city hall can be on a lease. It is truly absurd. If you are going to start that game then shipyards not sell of Parliament or the royal palaces?

shipyards should be may as well... bizarre.

The new location heart of Newham Labour-ville and difficult / expensive to get too from South of the River - you have to pay so much to go on that absurdly empty and absurdly priced cable car - which is also quite scary in the wind.

Not difficult at all and no cable car ride needed. Jubilee to Canning Town then a few stops on the DLR

'not difficult at all'... and the easy route from Peckham is ?

The thing is that it's not a stand-alone building, being part of the wider More London complex. Almost certainly services, deliveries, etc. and presumably parking access are via the 'tunnel' entrance adjacent to Tesco on Tooley St. So, the building's occupier (i.e. the GLA) will have rights and obligations ('positive covenants') over the adjacent land and structures.

Usually the easiest way to govern all of this stuff in English law is to use a system of leases. Unfortunately, this has the slightly dumb effect of the GLA effectively renting what many regard as a public building.

It may well be that this is all sabre-rattling as part of a rent-reduction/lease extension negotiation. However, apparently the City Hall building is infested with various rodents, so the GLA may not be very sad to move!