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HART NOW ON EST. 1937 4 WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with Cop that: New Ideas, please: Scotland Yard, Whitehall’s old on a coveted site War Office, right, in Victoria, is one of London’s among major most imposing public buildings buildings, is up up for grabs in for sale in a the rush to government development move to see redundant public premises converted into new housing ALAMY Everything must go ONDON is having the scrapped in most of the London Great properties will ultimate fire sale.