Some of the clubs on it closed decades ago – evidence not of a vast conspiracy to denude London of its edgy nightlife for the benefit of chain restaurants and luxury-flat developers, but of the fact that the natural, healthy state for dance music and club culture is constant forward motion: like the music and its audience, venues shift and change over time.
Under European regulations, which cover much of the area's bird-rich salt-marshes and tidal mud-flats, developers would have to prove there was a genuine need to build a new airport, to try and mitigate environmental damage, and to compensate for any damage done.
She is highly-attached to their country home, Howards End, and leaves it in her will to her friend Margaret Schlegel Thompsonn), who, with her siblings, is being evicted from their flat by developers.
But property prices in Calcutta have now reached a plateau, and the only people making money off new flats are developers and estate agents.
In its marketing brochure for the flats the developer, Berkeley Homes, describes "an appealing private courtyard garden, consisting of three individually designed areas, each characterised by its own unique water feature, including a dancing fountain, lily pond and stone bubbler fountain".
As their expatriate executives arrive, they are snapping up not only the best offices but also the choicest residential flats.For property developers, this should be good news.
Unfortunately, thousands of these developers' flats were declared unsuitable for social housing because they were notorious for shoddy building standards, raising the question: who passed them as fit for habitation in the first place?
Only that left developers flat-footed, with no real games coming out for the peripheral for months, and nothing that reaches out to the gaming hardcore.
The apartment house, known at first as a French flat, took off as developers mined a completely new market.
These include, for instance, the ownership of parking spaces around high-rise flats: the draft says that the spaces belong to the flats' owners, not the developers.
We know it wants to sell this estate to private developers for flats we could never afford.
