The site in Tite St is D1 class so greedy developers will be scrambling around to see if they can get a change of use to put up houses and flats for the international super filthy rich.
St Wilfred's is a '70's horror covering at least three acres so its demolition would certainly improve Tite St. But the big question is what could go in its place....probably not more ridiculously expensive flats/houses.
Actually the building & its chapel are architecturally rather lovely and have provided a very valuable service to the elderly , well-heeled catholics of the area. the systematic loss of LOCAL nursing home facilities for residents has been one of thefailings of the last two decades. If you are super wealthy there is now the choice of the 'Caviar Care Home' on Dove House Green or soon the huge new facility for the mega rich on Kensington Square (on the Hethrop College/Maria Assumpta site). But if you are of modest means you will be shipped off out of the borough to a ghastly facility on an industrial estate in Acton to die miles away from friends , family or familiar surroundings. As Neil Kinnock warned decades ago , do not be poor or vulnerable in a country or local authority run by the Tories. They don't care & do not even look after their own voters
ReplyDeleteThank you 13:55
ReplyDeleteYou make excellent points.The issue is probably the constraints the nuns are under to maximise the value.
The dear nuns will make a bomb. The Holland Park School playground sold for £100 million. And £10 million flats were built for rich Russians to park hot money. The value was created by a stroke of the pen in the Hornton Street Planning Department. Brown envelopes?
DeleteI hope the nuns have a good financial advisor. It will be a real problem for them to know what to do with the money. The ladies do not know about Gucci or Monte Carlo
This is a cost effective Hospice in the middle of London run by non profit and caring vocation people. Something like this should be preserved for the community.
ReplyDeleteInstead of giving Cllr Faulks money to waste on street benches (£3000 each) and tourist guide implants on Kensington Streets with Easter eggs (paid for by Council tax), the Council should approach the nuns and offer to make up whatever shortfall the Hospice is experiencing. This would be the bargain of the century and save huge amounts that the Council is using to fund care home places in the profit sector.
WAKE UP DIZZY
I support this
DeleteWhat rubbish! According to CEO Barry Quirk the Tory controlled Town Hall is a "property development machine"
ReplyDeletePrat.
It is really good news that Quirk has quit. Good riddance.
DeleteWill Cllr Campbell be able to take a grip? Probably not. She is in the wrong job. Can't cope at this level. Her social media description of the new Town Clerk that she is looking for is PATHETIC. Straight out of 5th Form fumbling.
The sycophant Tory Councillors are too frightened to push the button and risk losing their patronage allowances.
As the wise owl said: "We deserve what we get"
More carping in the Hornet. Useless bunch
ReplyDeleteThen don't read it as by doing so you are part of the 'useless bunch'....or are you too think to get it?
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