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Tag Archives: Mount Pleasant
The approval of Mount Pleasant’s “affordable” flats at £2,800 a month shows the rot of our planning system
Mount Pleasant matters. Formerly a prison, it’s one of the few large, undeveloped brownfield sites left in central London. Few object to redeveloping the unpleasant wasteland behind the Royal Mail’s sorting office, where Second World War bomb sites are still … Continue reading
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