Former workhouse looks set to make way for flats at old Middlesex Hospital site
Published: 22 July, 2010
A GEORGIAN workhouse where debtors and bankrupts were once banged up looks set to be pulled down after University College London Hospital applied for permission to build nearly 200 homes in its place
The building is the last remaining structure on the site of the old Middlesex Hospital in Fitzrovia – but if UCLH NHS Trust chiefs gets their way, it will be replaced by shops and flats.
Neighbours have accused the hospital of underhand behaviour, saying they are using the application to fulfil a legal pledge they made to build social housing more than seven years ago in return for permission for their new headquarters on Euston Road.
A UCLH spokesman said: “The site has been identified for redevelopment for a long time now, to provide affordable housing as required through the Trust’s Section 106 obligations. Affordable housing south of the Euston Road is very scarce, and the Trust has focused on the long-term, designing a high-quality mixed-use scheme which delivers over 50 per cent by area as affordable housing.”