A DESTRUCTIVE developer’s plan to demolish Earl’s Court to build posh flats will cost thousands of homes and Tube jobs and devastate the local environment, according to a new study published yesterday.

Local residents and campaigners had to pay for the impact assessment out of their own pockets when Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea councils refused to undertake one.

Campaigner Jos Bell said it was “unheard of” for a 20-year construction plan to have no local authority impact assessment or even a review during the building process.