Peel House

About Peel House

Peel House is a former Metropolitan Police training accommodation in Regency Street, Pimlico, London SW1. It was built in 1907, and is in a conservation area, but not a listed building, and Westminster City Council has identified it as being "a building of unlisted merit". In 2010, it was converted into 70 residential flats and is run by the Octavia Housing Association. Peel House was the "affordable housing" element of the Christian Candy and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, One Hyde Park residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, overlooking Hyde Park, even though it was two miles away. It was reported in the Daily Telegraph, that one Regency Street commented, "They are creating a billionaires' ghetto in Knightsbridge and putting all the poorer residents here. "

Peel House Description

Peel House is a former Metropolitan Police training accommodation in Regency Street, Pimlico, London SW1. It was built in 1907, and is in a conservation area, but not a listed building, and Westminster City Council has identified it as being "a building of unlisted merit". In 2010, it was converted into 70 residential flats and is run by the Octavia Housing Association. Peel House was the "affordable housing" element of the Christian Candy and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, One Hyde Park residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, overlooking Hyde Park, even though it was two miles away. It was reported in the Daily Telegraph, that one Regency Street commented, "They are creating a billionaires' ghetto in Knightsbridge and putting all the poorer residents here. "