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F 15/01/2020 11:10 Page 1 FEBRUARYFEBRUARY 20202020 `V+AŴ`G#`(VZ`wŴ`G#`(V JANUARYJ ANUARY 2020 ADVERTISING MANAGER: PHILIPPA ROBINSON WHO WE ARE:- ZONAL PRINTING DIGITAL CONTENT EDITOR: SAM 2020 [email protected] TIME TO SHINE PIMLICO & BELGRAVIA EYE PRODUCTION MANAGER: MIKE LERMER CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: RICHARD RUSHWORTH DISTRIBUTION: ZONALEXPRESS PUBLISHER: DAVID M. MEHRA [email protected] TEL: 020 7351 4831 EMAIL: [email protected] ACCOUNTS: SARAH BRAITHWAITE [email protected] [email protected] EDITOR: PAT TUNSTALL TRANSFORM THIS YEAR EB ESIGN HILIP ARR WEB + SHOW THEM YOUR RESULTS WITH DOLPHIN SQUARE GYM W D : P C : www.eyepublications.co.uk GYM.DOLPHINSQUARE.CO.UK 020 779 88686 DOLPHIN SQUARE | PIMLICO | SW1 3LX [email protected] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chelsea Barracks is the former barracks in Chelsea Bridge Road Dear Sir developed by Qatari Diar, the property company owned by the Qatari The Christine Keeler TV series jogged my memory to an hilarious royal family. incident at Grumbles long ago. It is claimed to be “the most coveted 12.8 acres in the world ” and It was New Year's Eve at my restaurant Grumbles in Pimlico and it will have 440 new homes, of which 126 will be lower cost, arranged was frantically busy. I ran downstairs to the bar and sitting on top around seven garden squares. The first three of six phases of 64 of the bar was Christine Keeler waving her legs about. As I passed flats, one mews house, three penthouses and 13 townhouses will be she snapped me between her legs with squeals of laughter. There finished later this year. Two-bedroom flats start at £5.25 million. was I trapped between the most famous legs in England ! Taylor Wimpey’s Ebury Place has 47 one-, two- and three-bedroom The funniest thing to me was at this point a man standing beside flats in an 11-storey block with underground parking in Sutherland the bar in suit and tie said "Do you mind,that happens to be my Street in the Pimlico grid. Move-in ready two-bedroom flats start at fiancee ".We all collapsed in laughter none more than Christine. £1,075,000. My impression of Christine was that she was great fun and far A few flats remain at Riverwalk overlooking the Thames at the junction of prettier than any of her photos. I think Sophie Cookson in the TV Vauxhall Bridge and Millbank, from developer Ronson Capital series shows this side of her personality. Partners. Two-bedroom flats from £2.85 million; three-bedroom flats Jeremy Friend from £3.95 million. PIMLICO IS BEST KNOWN Under the Westminster Home Ownership Accelerator scheme, one- for its garden squares — Eccleston, Warwick and St George’s — bedroom flats for Westminster residents in Lanhill Road, Maida Vale and the streets on the Pimlico grid, the roads running off St start at £1,007 a month. George’s Drive. Most of the houses in the squares are divided into flats, first-floor homes with access to the balconies above the Pimlico is a popular rental area with young professionals, couples entrance porches being the most desirable. and overseas students at Chelsea College of Arts. One-bedroom flats in the Pimlico grid range from £1,408 a month in Alderney The last whole house sold in one of the squares made £8 million Street to £2,275 a month in St George’s Square. three years ago. The most expensive house now for sale is a six- bedroom, 4,700sq ft property in Belgrave Road, priced £4.75 million. Two-bedroom flats range from £1,746 a month in Churchill Gardens to £3,727 a month in Chapter Street. A two-bedroom Warwick The most expensive flat is a three-bedroom lateral conversion Square Mews house is £2,500 a month, and it’s £12,000 a month for across two buildings in Warwick Square, for £4.5 million. One-bed- a six-bedroom house in Gloucester Street. room flats in the grid range from £475,000 to £850,000. Price per square foot in the grid is between £1,100 and £1,300 compared to Pimlico’s most affordable homes are on its estates of social housing. around £1,900 for something similar in Belgravia. Churchill Gardens between Lupus Street and the river has 1,600 homes in 32 medium-rise and low-rise blocks, with six blocks now There are spacious red-brick Victorian mansion flats in the triangle listed, designed after the Second World War by architects Powell & formed by Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street, with a Moya. three-bedroom flat in Carlisle Mansions for sale at £2,995,000. Lillington Gardens off Tachbrook Street is an award-winning development Among new developments in recent years, the former waste of red-brick medium-rise blocks with spacious balconies designed transfer site in Gatliff Road has been transformed into Grosvenor following a competition by Darbourne & Darke and built between Waterside, arranged around a canal. 1961 and 1972. One-bedroom flats here range from £540,000 to £1.85 million with Russell House between Cambridge and Alderney Streets in the a shared-ownership flat available for £295,000 for 55 per cent of a Pimlico grid was built in 1946 in a more traditional Arts & Crafts home with a market value of £575,000. style. The Millbank Estate is a popular council-owned estate of Art Wandsworth council proposes a new pedestrian and cyclist-only Nouveau flats in John Islip Street, behind Tate Britain. Most now bridge from Battersea Power Station to Pimlico. However, the fate of owned, they range from studios at £375,000, to £570,000 for a this bridge is uncertain as Pimlico residents aren’t keen and one-bedroom flat and £995,000 for a three-bedroom flat. Westminster council backs them. Pimlico & Belgravia Eye February 2020 2 GROSVENOR BRIDGE The foundations consisted of a concrete raft (original bridge), four carries the railway lines out of Victoria station across the River cast iron caissons filled with concrete (the first widening), and a Thames in London. It was first built in 1860 as part of the Victoria single cast iron caisson filled with concrete (the second widening). These supported piers variously faced in limestone (orginal) and granite (widenings). During the reconstruction, the existing foundations were isolated within a cofferdam, and widened in reinforced concrete. A temporary steel truss was erected above the bridge, and used both to dismantle the original arches and erect the new arches, lifting the elements onto and off of pontoons. This worked one span and one track at a time, which is why the new bridge is built of several separate decks rather than one continuous structure. The current arches are two-pinned welded steel box girders, each 1.13m deep and 0.61m wide, with steel plates up to 31mm thick. There are two arch ribs for each bridge deck. Tubular steel spandrel posts carry an orthotropically stiffened steel deck. Further details, construction photographs and technical drawings are available in the Station & Pimlico Railway. Designed by John Fowler, the bridge book Railway Bridge Construction by F.A.W. Mann. cost £84,000 and carried two railway tracks over four 53.3m river spans (plus a It's an essentially number of modern design, but approach spans). I doubt that any Masonry-faced casual observer is brick piers carried aware of it. The segmental retention of the wrought iron original open- arches, with six spandrel arch arched ribs in elevations means each span. that the bridge appears at first As the railways glance to be an rapidly expanded, unaltered so did the bridge, historic structure. with a first widened section completed in 1866 (designed by Sir Charles Fox), adding another 5 tracks on the east side. The structure was widened again in 1907, adding a further 2 tracks on the west side, using mild steel arches. Due to the cost of maintenance, it was decided in 1958 to replace the bridge, with work taking place between 1963 and 1967, to a design by Freeman Fox. The bridge now consists of 10 parallel bridge structures supported on common piers. The arch profile and general elevation of the bridge has remained largely unaltered since the original construction, although reconstruction and underpinning of the piers has shortened the spans to 50m each. 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