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Alexander Lewis: Operation Dynamo & the housing crisis
Large planning permissions and funding commitments won’t deliver the houses we need today. We need the 'small boats', explains top resi development expert.

Alexander Lewis is an MRICS residential development and investment specialist with over twenty years’ experience in the Prime Central London market.
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