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This week Merlin speaks to Lachlan Anderson-Frank. Lachlan trained as an architect and is a town planner working at the London Borough of Enfield.

A new budget amid a wave of public sector strike disruptions | Three London buildings among the UK’ s most at risk of demolition | A fatal fire in an east London flat housing 18 people | And Elon Musk’s vision for a new build ‘utopia’ in Texas

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