Plans for 475 student homes are thrown out – London

Ambitious plans for a “massive” £30million development of almost 500 student flats behind Finsbury Park Station have been thrown out by Islington Council.

Picture framers John Jones Ltd employ 100 people and have been based in Morris Place, Finsbury Park, for the last 20 years. Their clients include artists David Hockney and Turner Prize winner Damien Hirst, with whom they recently secured a £3million contract.

With business booming, the firm wants to bulldoze its current warehouses and build a new state-of-the-art workshop and gallery complex …

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