<b><b>Mayor Ken is no fan of construction companies or developers - but even he has gushed about St George&amp;’s Imperial Wharf in Fulham. Steve Menary looks at this pioneering urban mixed use development</b></b><br><b>London&amp;’s Mayor Ken Livingstone is not known as someone with many kind words for the private sector but he was certainly impressed with St George&amp;’s Imperial Wharf development.</b><br> Livingstone described the giant scheme on the banks of the River Thames in Chelsea as an example to other developers, saying: &amp;“[London] is most probably the greatest world city. It&amp;’s more diverse than Paris and on a more human scale than New York.<p></p><p> &amp;“It is that diversity that I see reflected in Imperial Wharf. It looks to me like a community that&amp;’s going to stay alive.&amp;”</p><p> One of the Mayor&amp;’s bugbears is how London&amp;’s rampant house price inflation is preventing the low paid from getting on the property ladder, so the amount of social housing at Imperial Wharf probably impressed him. As well as 850 private units, the site will contain 815 affordable homes plus housing for 40 key workers.</p><p> The local authority on the scheme, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, is one of the strictest in the …