Crumbling Westminster = £3bn +. What should we do ? Poll..

[Murph7355]

Missed opportunity to get them out of London permanently.

[Randy Winkman]

Murph7355 said:

Missed opportunity to get them out of London permanently.

Exactly. And if they did that they could get rid of the pointless excuse that the civil service HQs (I work in one) all need to be in London. Loads of money saved and benefits for other parts of the UK.

[z4RRSchris]

wsurfa said:

Same conversation (slightly different flavour) as for the Buckingham Palace renovation.

The costs quoted for additional fit out for high end apartments in London are c £2,500/sq foot - that's on top of the c£10,000/sq ft to buy. Given I'd expect the renovation will not, for example, involve ripping out encaustic floor tiles (eg http://www.dbrlimited.com/project/palace-westminst... )and replacing with B&Qs finest plain white, the £5k /sq foot looks about expected.

Hopefully this approach means we wont get a Hollyroodesque junkpile.

we are building from scratch a grade 1 listed building in London, and fitting it out to high end units for less than half of your £2500psf figure.