The Metropolis

City Hall refuses to release letters between Boris and Chuck over Chelsea Barrack

Darren Atwater | Friday 18 June, 2010 09:00

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City Hall has refused to release letters between Mayor Boris Johnson and future King Charles regarding the controversial redevelopment of the Chelsea Barracks.

Adam Bienkov used the freedom of information act to ask for the letters after Charles complained that the Chelsea development was ugly. The developers soon dropped the plan.

City Hall reasoned that letters to the royal family are exempt from the act, however Bienkov calls bullshit on that:

[W]hen our future King has directly involved himself in hugely sensitive planning decisions and major financial and political deals, then I think it pretty clearly falls within the public interest.

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