Plans to turn Charing Cross hospital into luxury flats also proved particularly unpopular.

They're all luxury flats now, so perhaps a certain spirit has been lost.

Derelict for several decades, Tower Works is currently being converted into luxury flats.

The building housing the school is being demolished to make way for luxury flats.

There is also an oversupply of luxury flats in many parts of the capital.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The old Cleveland Street workhouse in Fitzrovia, now being turned into luxury flats.

But a lack of urban planning means sprawling slums are mushrooming alongside expensive housing and luxury flats.

The old blocks are being knocked down and rebuilt as luxury flats for the emerging middle class.

The building, which sold for 120 million pounds more than the suggested price, will be transformed into luxury flats.

The prices of new luxury flats in the city jumped by 25 percent within a year, according to data released in August.

In 2014 he launched a one-person legal campaign to stop the redevelopment of the Shell Centre in central London into luxury flats.

Locals say they are being pushed out of their city as private developers transform houses into Airbnb properties, hotels and luxury flats.

Glass tower … the Carbuncle Cup nominee One Commercial Street, which maintains a separation between the luxury flats and affordable housing within.

It faced out on to the Thames; on the other side was Battersea power station, being turned by Malaysian investors into luxury flats.

Chelsea Barracks Candy & Candy, developer of hyper- luxury flats, last week sold its stake in Chelsea Barracks estate to the Qatari royal family.

Others wondered if the site now faced the same prospect as other legendary music venues such as Manchester's Haçienda -now luxury flats.