City's Ring of Bright Water ; Fabulous Waterside Homes Are Springing Up All Over London Thanks to a Cleanup of the City's Elaborate Canal Network
Evening Standard - London › August 25, 2004
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ONLY five years ago, most of London's lesser-known canals were a sorry sight: choked with litter and weeds, their towpaths overgrown or sprayed with graffiti and their banks lined with derelict and vandalised warehouses and goods yards.
But now waterways such as east London's Limehouse Cut, the eastern reaches of the Regent's Canal, the Hertford Union Canal in Hackney, and the Grand Union Canal at Brentford in west London are being transformed.See the full content of this document
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City's Ring of Bright Water ; Fabulous Waterside Homes Are Springing Up All Over London Thanks to a Cleanup of the City's Elaborate Canal Network
Developers are building hundreds of flats along them, encouraged by planners who want industrial sites reused. As part of the deal, developers are helping to fund major cleanups and improvement schemes throughout London's canal network.
"The whole market has changed," says Stephen Hurford, of estate agent Hurford Salvi Carr. "These waterways are a big bonus.They were grotty just a few y...See the full content of this document
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