2017

TQ3382 : Fleur De Lis Street

taken 7 years ago, near to Shoreditch, Islington, England

This is 1 of 2 images, with title Fleur De Lis Street in this square
Fleur De Lis Street
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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This photo is linked from: Articles: · Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017 Automatic Clusters: · Street [1317] · Edward [49] Title Clusters: · Fleur De Lis Street [2] ·
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TQ3382, 1679 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Stephen Richards   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 9 April, 2017   (more nearby)
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Sunday, 9 April, 2017
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 3347 8206 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:31.3017N 0:4.6565W
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 3352 8206
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