Peel House is a former

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training school in Regency Street,

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, London SW1. It was built in the year 1907, and is in a conservation area, but not a listed building, and

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has identified it as being "a building of unlisted merit". It was the Metropolitan Police Training School until 1974, when this moved to

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. 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 Christian Candy and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani's

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residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, overlooking

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, even though it was two miles away. It was reported in the ''

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'', that one Regency Street commented, "They he Candy brothersare creating a billionaires' ghetto in Knightsbridge and putting all the poorer residents here."

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Pimlico Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster Metropolitan Police accommodation buildings Metropolitan Police training establishments Buildings and structures completed in 1907 {{London-struct-stub