Destruction a foregone conclusion - left hand betrays right hand shock
From Camden's response to an 'online report' of damage to the road "The road is suffering from severe pooling during wet weather. There's a distinct undulation probably due to shabby works executed some time ago and there doesn't appear to be adequate drainage".
"The Area Engineer visited the site in question and noted there is a large development works scheduled to take place on the carriageway and footway which shall take place shortly".
Once again, Camden's engineers' enthusiasm for digging up roads (ibid.) is apparent.
"Quite a friendly bunch of people really".
A blog, earlier. Some pictures, too.
Ooh, I could bang my gavel!
Always a good sign. M'learned friends are crawling all over the dubious planning permission (in additon to previous legal wrangles about ownership).
If I were trying to sell the site (which the owners, at least of most of the site are) I would, to coin a phrase "be shitting myself" (and not only because the mortgage could keep Belgium's economy afloat) but also because the lender (Nat West, we believe) must be wondering about the wisdom of lending against such an unworkable site.
Still, there's a chance that you dear reader might be looking to buy it and why should these inconvenient truths prevent you from making a million or two where others have stumbled for almost a decade?
Back on the BBC
Pictures from Open House, taken by photographers with a bent to the modern, apparently. In case you're wondering, it doesn't look very Georgian, but hey ho, the bit of scrub at the end of the road doesn't look big enough for the profits imagined by Mr Gami and his not very competent developer chums, so appearances can sometimes be decieving. Or not.
With no apparent sense of irony
The official 'love Camden' guide (published by er, Camden Council and available from libraries, the Town Hall and the like) features... Little Green Street!
You couldn't make it up.


