London 2012 Olympics could be last hurrah for art-deco exhibition centre.
Permission to flatten London’s art deco Earls Court exhibition centre and its 1930s-style fixtures should come shortly after the venue finishes playing host to the Olympic volleyball tournament, its owners said on Tuesday.
Capital and Counties, which owns London’s Covent Garden tourist hot spot, has an eight billion pound ($12.6 billion) plan for 7,500 homes across a 77-acre neighborhood in west London that will take two decades to complete.
“We hope to get outline planning consent for the master plan by the end of the year,” chief executive Ian Hawksworth told Reuters. “There has been a thrust from London authorities in the last five years for large-scale regeneration schemes in response to the demand for new homes.”
Any such go-ahead is unlikely to go uncontested. An active and highly vocal campaign by local residents has been in operation for some time now.
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