Called to book
Kinks fans, note. Another book.
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From the Department of Straws, clutching at
AKA Kentish Town: Shaping the Future a Plan for the Wider Kentish Town Area (Draft), something Camden Council are consulting on, in the words of my man with the magnifying glass
"If you squint carefully at page 8, you will see that the Club site, or at least part of it, has been designated an 'Open Space'......"
Curiouser and curiouser...
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It's there in the papers/it must/be the truth
Eight and a half million quid? Pick a number. Wrong decade lads.
Here's the CNJ's take
And here
;)
for the "I like to read it in print" crowd.
Mascochists, enter here
To celebrate ten years of unsucessfully building on the old railway club site at the end of Little Green Street, London's most ill-thought through development is now officially up for sale.
If you're considering buying it, pull up a comfy chair and read on.
www.littlegreenstreet.com catalogues the sorry story of what happened when wannabe developers bought a plot of land without thinking through the physical and economic challenges of trying to over-develop, even during the then property boom.
Huh? There is planning consent, after all. How hard could it be?
Dozens of developers, proper ones as well as weekend speculators, have looked at this 'too good to be true' (it is) prospect over the years and rapidly walked away.
If you think you're different, don't say we didn't warn you that it will be a miserable, thankless task to turn the kind of profits dangled in front of you by the, let's face it, hopeless sellers.
You will however, find the community welcoming of a sensible scheme, so do say 'Hello'.
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Vive la rue petit vert!*
"London estate agents in up-and-coming Kentish Town are feeling the benefit of the St Pancras Eurostar terminal.
Peter Malcomess at Chesterton Humberts reports an increasing number of French buyers moving in. "With the opening of the new French school in Kentish Town this September, 15 per cent of our enquiries for family houses are from French buyers, directly related to the school," he says.
"We expect this to continue throughout the year and to peak in the summer."
The school, sponsored by the French government, will take 700 pupils and will have links to the French Lycée in Kensington. Home owners in Kentish Town can be at St Pancras station in six minutes on the Thameslink rail service and reach Paris in two and a quarter hours.
Prices are bullish and there is talk of Kentish Town becoming the next Chalk Farm. It has a plethora of world food stores and jazz pubs, and already a smattering of glamour with writers, actors and musicians, including actor Bill Nighy and broadcaster Jon Snow".
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