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Recession puts police station sell-offs on hold
THE economic downturn has put paid to plans to sell two police stations in Hampstead and Kentish Town.
Hampstead police station in Rosslyn Hill and Kentish Town station in Holmes Road have been lined up for a rumoured sale since a London-wide “estates strategy” by Met chiefs advocated scrapping old police stations in favour of fewer and larger “supernicks”.
At a meeting in King’s Cross on Monday, Martin Davis, head of partnerships at Metropolitan Police Authority, which owns the sites, said: “The whole estates strategy has been put on hold. At this moment, because of the global downturn, there is no point in even thinking of selling police stations.”
Chairman of South End Green Association William Welbank, who has campaigned to save Hampstead station, said: “I have always felt the main driver was to get money, which would be taken out of Hampstead and spent elsewhere in Camden or London. This shows it was a money grab.” |
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