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Life in and for the flats wasn't
as rosy after the war. A lack of maintenance and a concomitant
deterioration plagued the building as it switched hands from
the Pritchards to the New Statesman in 1969 and to the Camden
Council just three years later. Granted Grade
I status in 2000, Camden held a competition to restore
the building to its former glory, a competition won by a team
comprising the Notting
Hill Home Ownership, Avanti
Architects, Alan
Conisbee Associates as structural engineers and Max
Fordham, services engineers. Faced not only with material
and service deterioration and disrepair but also a 1950s exterior
stucco job and the unfortunate replacement of the original
steel windows with ill-matched aluminum substitutes, the team
had quite a job ahead of them. |
