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Now, it&#8217;s being developed into 85 luxury flats and a 120-room Raffles hotel with an underground swimming pool, three gym studios, a spa and a 16-seat cinema, but it won&#8217;t include any affordable housing.The UK\u2019s two richest people, the Hinduja brothers, have been allowed to avoid planning rules that should have required them to build 98 affordable flats for key workers, after the then Conservative-led Westminster council agreed it would &#8216;not be economically feasible&#8217;Luxury flats project by UK\u2019s two richest people has no social housing Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/video\/2022\/oct\/02\/the-12bn-luxury-development-in-central-london-with-no-social-housing-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u00a31.2bn luxury development in central London with no social housing \u2013 video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The Old War Office has been one of London&#8217;s most famous landmarks for more than&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-xVE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88665,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/nhs-secretly-planning-to-develop-royal-free-hospital-building-into-luxury-flats\/","url_meta":{"origin":130426,"position":0},"title":"NHS secretly planning to develop Royal Free hospital building into luxury flats","date":"May 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \u2018One Hyde Park-style\u2019 apartments to replace housing for London staff, selling for up to \u00a310m each The NHS is secretly marketing a 100-year-old hospital building that provides affordable housing for 52 nurses and other key workers to property developers to create a One Hyde Park-style complex of luxury flats\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":113,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-flats-costing-up-to-1m-outsell-more-affordable-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":130426,"position":1},"title":"London flats costing up to \u00a31m outsell more affordable homes","date":"January 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Thousands more high-priced flats sold in 2015 than those costing around \u00a3300,000, despite fears for first-time buyersLondon property developers last year sold more than twice as many two-bedroom apartments costing between \u00a3650,000 and \u00a31m as cheaper homes priced at about \u00a3300,000, according to market data obtained by the Guardian.Figures\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":88950,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-nhs-plans-to-turn-century-old-hospital-building-in-hampstead-london-into-luxury-flats\/","url_meta":{"origin":130426,"position":2},"title":"Britain\u2019s NHS plans to turn century-old hospital building in Hampstead, London, into luxury flats","date":"May 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Britain\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) is privately marketing a 100-year-old hospital building that provides affordable housing for 52 nurses and other key workers to property developers to create a One Hyde Park-style complex of luxury flats overlooking Hampstead Heath in London. 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