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Studio Egret West submits £200m plan to turn historic factory into homes

By 2019-12-27T07:00:00

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Old Siemens factory set to become 500 homes

Studio Egret West has submitted plans for a £200m mixed-use scheme in Greenwich, south-east London.

The scheme, called Faraday Works, involves turning the Victorian former Siemens Brothers factory into 492 new homes.

Built in the 1860s, the factory, once the largest in London and set up by a member of the Siemens family, the German industrial group, manufactured communication cables until its closure in 1968.

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