Residents are calling for Boris Johnson to be removed from the decision-making over Royal Mail’s development at Mount Pleasant, in Clerkenwell.
They claim the Mayor effectively disqualified himself by supporting the plan in a public debate last week — when he is supposed to be an impartial adjudicator.
The Mount Pleasant Association, which has expressed concern over affordable housing and the environmental impact of the 680-home scheme, has appealed to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to step in.
At a June 25 meeting Mr Johnson said it would be a “wonderful place to live”. The residents wrote to Mr Pickles: “Mr Johnson’s... comments in the public debate have fatally compromised his quasi-judicial position.”
But Sir Edward Lister, Deputy Mayor for planning, said: “The Mayor will consider all of the benefits and drawbacks of the scheme in detail.”
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