Peel House

51.49122°N 0.13188°W / 51.49122; -0.13188

Peel House, Regency Street, Pimlico
reverse of postcard posted in 1924, "passed out O.K. stationed Monday!"

Peel House is a former Metropolitan Police training school in Regency Street, Pimlico, London SW1. It was built in the year 1907, and is in a conservation area, but not a listed building, and Westminster City Council has identified it as being "a building of unlisted merit". It was the Metropolitan Police Training School until 1974, when this moved to Hendon. In 2010, it was converted into 70 residential flats and is run by the Octavia Housing Association.[1]

Peel House was the "affordable housing" element of Christian Candy and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani's One Hyde Park residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, overlooking Hyde Park, even though it was two miles away. It was reported in the Daily Telegraph, that one Regency Street commented, "They [the Candy brothers] are creating a billionaires' ghetto in Knightsbridge and putting all the poorer residents here."[2][3][4]

References
  1. "Peel House, Pimlico". Octavia. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. Watts, Robert. "Candys are building 'billionaires' ghetto'".
  3. Steele, Francesca. "Peel House in Pimlico: 'The best affordable housing in London' - The Times".
  4. "Now first-timers can taste the candy". 9 November 2013.


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