Thursday, 24 May 2012

Golden opportunity

When the athletes move out of London 2012’s Olympic village, thousands of affordable housing residents will move in. Elliot Lipton, the man behind a public-private partnership charged with delivering that legacy, talks for the first time about its plans. Caroline Thorpe reports.

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