Property News · May 23, 2018

Turning Queen Mary’s House into luxury flats would leave NHS staff homeless | Letters


Neil Macehiter says it will make recruiting staff harder, and Stewart Pimbley on the betrayal of the London building’s pastThe response of Stephen Clark, spokesman for planning on London’s Camden council, to the marketing of Queen Mary’s House as potential luxury flats (NHS privately planning to turn London hospital building into block of luxury £10m flats, 19 May) is mealy-mouthed to say the least. His concerns should extend beyond the fact that the hospital has not applied for planning permission and that the council “wouldn’t want to see just luxury homes on the site”.With the NHS struggling to recruit and retain key staff – not least because of the lack of local affordable accommodation – the council should be making its opposition to the Royal Free’s plans clear, or demanding that developers are required to replace the lost accommodation at an equivalent rent in the locality. Anything else would demonstrate an abdication of its responsibilities. Neil MacehiterGreat Shelford, Cambridgeshire Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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