Does Nine Elms symbolise everything thats wrong with Londons housing market?
In Concrete Island, JG Ballards 1974 novel, the pre-eminent chronicler of urban dystopia wrote about an architect stranded in a swathe of derelict land between converging motorways and high-rises, unable to escape. Swap the speeding cars for e-scooters and Boris bikes and the plot comes to mind as soon as you hit the shadow of Nine Elms, Londons largest  and most controversial  regeneration scheme. Step away from the low Georgian brick terraces of Harleyford Road and Vauxhall Grove and a castellated fortress of sky-high cranes and new towers  some built, others still under construction  blocks the view. They are not made of concrete as in Ballards novel, but of glass and steel. And suspended between two ten-storey buildings is a