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The mayor's latest proposals depend on him obtaining permission from Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner in her role as secretary of state for housing, communities and local government to establish a new mayoral development corporation, which would provide planning powers.

Local MSP Angela Constance – who is also the Scottish government's justice secretary – met with residents to hear their concerns last Friday.

In February, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, told families she had made the "difficult" decision to "take down the tower to the ground level".

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle told a committee of MPs the government were looking to buy tower blocks and former student accommodation to house migrants as an alternative to asylum hotels.

Dame Angela Eagle said the government was exploring new ways to house asylum seekers ahead of break clauses in major accommodation contracts coming up next year.