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The FutureSt Pancras Almshouses – The Future But as well as looking back we are now looking forward too. The buildings have lasted well, but they need a thorough overhaul if they are to provide good homes for residents over the next decades. Fortunately the Homes and Communities Agency (formerly the Housing Corporation) has decided that almshouses fall within its remit to fund social housing. The Trustees have decided to take advantage of that decision and apply for a sizeable grant to help bring about major improvement of all our accommodation. Not all our residents are happy about this: quite understandably they like things as they are. That is a tribute to our Manager Merrick Howse and to his assistant Patricia King. But the Trustees have a responsibility, just like our early benefactors, to plan for the future as well as the present. In August 2009 Camden Council gave approval to the plans and they have since been submitted to the HCA. The schedule of works we have drawn up means that if this project goes ahead as we expect no resident will have to move away from the site – all will be accommodated here while their home is re-modelled. And we have of course made sure that our architectural heritage will not suffer. We hope that when the work is finished our residents will be pleased to be living in modern homes that are still the St Pancras Almshouses all of us love. |
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