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Developer seeks name change for Middlesex Hospital Annex and workhouse site

A public notice outside the former Middlesex Hospital Annex site shows a plan for a new street name. UCLH Charity, the developer of the former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse site, has applied to Camden Council to name the new street through the site as “Fitzroy Walk”. The site which is currently under construction to create a mix of residential and commercial properties was…

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Camden 'discussing the final terms' with UCLH Charity after losing in High Court over social rented homes

Work continues at the former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse site. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Camden Council is in discussions with UCLH Charity after it lost its high court battle over the building of 30 social rented homes on the former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse site on Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia. The judgement in favour of UCLH Charity was…

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The resolution of housing on the workhouse site is haunted by the ghost of Charles Dickens

The resolution of housing on the workhouse site is haunted by the ghost of Charles Dickens

The Middlesex Hospital Annex site, as viewed from Charlotte Street in December 2021, showing the rear of the former workhouse. Only 17 affordable homes will be built as part of the redevelopment of the site. Photo: Fitzrovia News. The recent appeal decision on the Middlesex Hospital Annex, formerly the Strand Union Workhouse, at 44 Cleveland Street finally put an end to any hopes that Fitzrovia…

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Camden Council 'extremely disappointed' by appeal decision on hospital site homes

Camden Council ‘extremely disappointed’ by appeal decision on hospital site homes

The former Middlesex Hospital Annex buildings at 44 Cleveland Street. Photo: Julia Gregory. A hospital charity can reduce the number of social rented homes on the site of the former Middlesex Hospital Annex in Fitzrovia, a planning inspector has ruled. In a verdict published on 1 December, Gareth Hughes approved UCLH Charity’s appeal and quashed the decision of Camden Council’s planning…

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Who knows what goes on in a basement car park of a PFI-built hospital these days?

Who knows what goes on in a basement car park of a PFI-built hospital these days?

UCLH Charity want their money back on a second hand hospital site. Image: The Planning Inspectorate. A planning inspector will this month hear arguments from Camden’s planners and from University College London Hospitals Charity in what could be the conclusion to a long-running dispute over social housing on the former Middlesex Hospital Annex — and former Strand Union Workhouse — site in…

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Camden rejects plan to reduce social housing on Middlesex Annex and former workhouse site

Camden rejects plan to reduce social housing on Middlesex Annex and former workhouse site. Developer threatens to challenge s106 agreement in High Court and appeal the decision #Fitzrovia

The former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse, 44 Cleveland Street. Councillors have voted unanimously to reject a planning application to reduce the number of social homes on the Middlesex Hospital Annex and former Strand Union Workhouse site in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia. During the planning meeting developer UCLH Charity said if the application is not approved it will…

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Developer wants to reduce social housing on Middlesex Annex site

Developer wants to reduce social housing on Middlesex Annex site #Fitzrovia #London

The former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse site at 44 Cleveland Street. The developer working on the former Middlesex Hospital and Strand Union Workhouse site in Fitzrovia is seeking to reduce the amount of social rented housing and is blaming, among other things, the dead London poor for making the project “no longer viable”. University College London Hospitals (UCLH)…

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Investigation of former hospital and workhouse site reveals intact human burial remains

Investigation of former hospital and workhouse site reveals intact human burial remains

An archaeological investigation at the Middlesex Hospital Annex and former Strand Union Workhouse site has recovered 55 intact human burials dating from 1780 to 1853 from three test trenches dug into the ground.

One of the burials found in a trench dug along the south cemetery wall. Source: Museum of London Archaeology.

The findings are revealed in a report by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)…

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Camden's planners appear to have given up on this legal agreement

Camden’s planners appear to have given up on this legal agreement

Next Thursday Camden’s planning officers will try to persuade councillors to approve plans to redevelop a disused hospital building in Fitzrovia, but without the developer honouring a legal agreement to build the full amount of social rented homes on the site. Some social housing has been annexed from the Middlesex Hospital Annex. UCLH Charity which owns the derelict Middlesex Hospital Annex in…

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Human remains 'should be anticipated' at former workhouse site

Human remains ‘should be anticipated’ at former workhouse site

Human remains from an historic burial ground at the former workhouse building in Fitzrovia are very likely to still exist and would have to be removed before any redevelopment of the site says an archaeology report from the Museum of London. Museum of London Archaeology report says human remains are likely to remain on Workhouse site. The report is a desk-based analysis and draws together…

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Camden Council and UCLH Charity face planning inspector in disagreement over social housing

Camden Council and UCLH Charity face planning inspector in disagreement over social housing

The former Middlesex Hospital Annex on Cleveland Street. Photo: Julia Gregory. Camden Council and UCLH Charity faced a government planning inspector this month in another chapter of a long-running dispute over social housing on a former hospital site in Fitzrovia. During a hearing at Camden’s Crowndale Centre on Wednesday 19 October UCLHC warned it might have to find a commercial partner to…

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Hospital charity asks government inspectors to reduce social housing on Middlesex site

Hospital charity asks government inspectors to reduce social housing on Middlesex site

Camden planners refused permission to reduce social homes on site. Now UCLH Charity is challenging that decision. Photo: Fitzrovia News. A hospital charity has lodged an appeal to the planning inspectorate after Camden council rejected its plans to cut the number of social homes on the Middlesex Hospital annex and former workhouse site in Fitzrovia. In December 2021 Camden council’s planning…

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Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, June 2021

Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, June 2021

Thirty-three planning applications were registered by Camden Council in Bloomsbury ward during June 2021. There is an application to reduce the amount of affordable housing at 44 Cleveland Street (former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse) and other amendments; applications for pavement licences and tables and chairs at 53 Warren Street, 37 Store Street, and 9 Windmill Street;…

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Nightingale wards at workhouse should be 'refurbished as housing for local people' says historian

Nightingale wards at workhouse should be ‘refurbished as housing for local people’ says historian

A prominent historian has criticised plans to demolish buildings on the site of the former Strand Union Workhouse in Cleveland Street, ahead of a decision this week by Camden council on the future of the site. The former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse building. Writing on Spitalifields Life Dr Ruth Richardson argues that the destruction of former hospital wards would mean the…

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Workhouse plans fail to deliver on housing, heritage and open space

Workhouse plans fail to deliver on housing, heritage and open space

Proposals by a hospital charity to redevelop the site of the former Strand Union Workhouse on Cleveland Street have been met with over 150 letters of objection sent to Camden Council which is due to make a decision on the plans later this year. The former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse building on Cleveland Street. The site was last used as the Middlesex Hospital Annex in…