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DSDHA s Cundy Street Quarter proposals, seen from Pimlico Road DSDHA s Cundy Street Quarter proposals, seen from Ebury Street Elizabeth Place, which forms part of DSDHA s Cundy Street Quarter proposals The 1950s-built Cundy Street Flats in Belgravia Source: Google Maps Source: Google Maps Architect DSDHA’s proposals to replace five blocks of 20 th-century flats in an exclusive part of central London with a taller residential scheme that includes much more retail and leisure space – as well as specialist housing for older people – are poised for approval by Westminster council Landowner Grosvenor Estate’s controversial plans would see the demolition of the four 1950s blocks that make up Belgravia’s seven-storey Cundy Street Flats development and social housing block Walden House, which was completed in 1924. The buildings would be replaced by a mixed-use scheme that would be 11 storeys at its tallest. ....
Camilla Parker Bowles is said to be saddened by plans to redevelop an apartment block dubbed aristo-flats in Belgravia where she lived in her twenties and entertained Prince Charles after nights out in Mayfair. The Duchess of Cornwall, 73, has privately expressed her concerns over the Duke of Westminster s property group s £400million scheme for Cundy Street Quarter, near London s Victoria Station, reports the Sunday Telegraph. The block earned the nickname aristo-flats due to their blue-blooded tenants, which included Camilla, who lived in a two-bedroom flat there in the early 70s before her first marriage to Andrew Parker-Bowles. The Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor s property firm has been accused of putting profit before people for his proposal to knock down four blocks and replace them with new housing - a project recommended for approval by Westminster City Council. ....