The Qatari royal family risks becoming embroiled in a bitter row between a developer and residents in Lambeth, south London, over plans to turn the former headquarters of the London Fire Brigade on the capital's South Bank into luxury housing, reported the UK's The Observer.
The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) left the former fire brigade HQ at 8 Albert Embankment in 2008 and, in conjunction with Native Land – in which the Qatari investors hold a 45 percent stake – applied for planning permission to convert the site.
The proposed development of 265 apartments was blocked by Lambeth's planning committee after it emerged that only 7 percent of the site would be devoted to social housing. Lambeth has a policy of demanding that 40 percent of any development is given over to affordable housing.
The old fire brigade headquarters would form part of a development of a 2.5 acre site that would comprise a total of 27,871 sqm of residential and commercial space in seven buildings.
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