2017
TQ3382 : Fleur De Lis Street
taken 7 years ago, near to Shoreditch, Islington, England
Fleur De Lis Street
The facing warehouses are on Blossom Street. They are known as the Nicholls & Clarke Buildings after the building supplies company which occupied them from the 1870s until 2003. To find ungentrified buildings of this sort in this area is remarkable.
A characterful low-rise area is about to be obliterated by the massive Norton Folgate development of, surprise surprise, high-rise office blocks. The Spitalfields Trust fought off the developers in the 1970s, the Georgian terraces are safe, but the surviving warehouses may not be as lucky. The upshot of a succession of planning appeals is that the developers, British Land, have two years (at the time of writing) in which to implement the planning permission. There has not been any sign of activity since a judicial review in 2016.
The City is visibly encroaching already - the block going up behind, on Bishopsgate, is Principal Tower (by Foster and Partners, which means that it may not be as tacky as most stuff going up at the moment).
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