Wanna Live Like Commons People? ; Historic and Elegant Westminster Is the Perfect Setting for a New Pounds 1 Billion Landmark Six-Acre Residential Quarter, Says David Spittles
Evening Standard - London › February 18, 2009
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VICTORIA, in the heart of Westminster, is about to have a new residential and retail quarter. A Pounds 1 billion high-profile scheme on a prime sixacre site bounded by Victoria Street and Buckingham Palace Road has been given the go-ahead. Its launch will offer prized new homes at a central London location, complementing boutique apartment schemes, such as that typified by the conversion of listed Caxton Hall.
For decades this part of the posh SW1 postcode has been strangely low-key as a place to live (except, of course, among MPs eager to be virtually next door to the House of Commons).See the full content of this document
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Wanna Live Like Commons People? ; Historic and Elegant Westminster Is the Perfect Setting for a New Pounds 1 Billion Landmark Six-Acre Residential Quarter, Says David Spittles
Recently, several ministry buildings were converted into flats.
And now, new commercial occupiers are relocating to the area, changing its "civil service land" character. Burberry has chosen Horseferry Road for its new headquarters, joining Channel 4, whose media execs and office workers have ...See the full content of this document
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