24 January 2015

Nick Curtis: Enforced idleness doesn’t work for enjoying London - Comment - Comment - London Evening Standard

Nick Curtis: Enforced idleness doesn’t work for enjoying London - Comment - Comment - London Evening Standard

When I dragged my wife, kicking and screaming, to south London I promised her Kennington was the new Notting Hill ... Alongside the clusters of high-rise luxury hutches for the absent rich planned for Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Elephant and Castle, we heard recently about the “Kennington Masterplan” for a site embracing a defunct gasworks, a large Tesco, a storage warehouse and brownfield land around the Beefeater gin distillery ... 

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