{"id":113291,"date":"2019-12-27T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-wembley-middlesex-haunted-by-the-ghost-of-stadium-mark-one\/"},"modified":"2019-12-28T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:43:08","slug":"lets-move-to-wembley-middlesex-haunted-by-the-ghost-of-stadium-mark-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-wembley-middlesex-haunted-by-the-ghost-of-stadium-mark-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Wembley, Middlesex: haunted by the ghost of stadium mark one"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nProperty developers are trying to reimagine the town as some kind of Middlesex Manhattan \u2013 but they don\u2019t have it all their own wayWhat\u2019s going for it? Yes, there is a town, a whole universe, beyond the hallowed stadium. The 1920s Metroland, for starters, built by property developers on hilly Middlesex fields along the Metropolitan line. The landscape is still dominated by Acacia Avenues of semis and Tudorbethans and art deco stations. For some, the ghost of stadium mark one, with its stubby twin towers, haunts the streets around its successor, rebuilt in a Blairite makeover. These days, the property developers are trying to reimagine the town as some kind of Middlesex Manhattan, cardboard Novotels, Prezzos and high rises selling lifestyles and luxuries, flush with the future prospects promised by Crossrail and HS2 \u2013 if they do eventually pass by. But the developers do not have it all their own way. Wem-ber-ley\u2019s Metroland is a hub of London\u2019s British Asian community, its High Road a mix of Greggs and dosas, saree shops and Poundlands, and perhaps the most fitting place imaginable to host the Borough of Culture in London next year, featuring none other than Zadie Smith; as well as a little thing called, I believe, Euro 2020. May it thrive.The case against Not, in the main, a beauty, although it has its moments. Heavily sliced by infrastructure: the North Circular, spaghetti clusters of mainline railways, the Grand Union canal. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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