St Clements Hospital was a mental health hospital located in the

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and was situated in the

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History

The building opened in a former workhouse building as the City of London Union Infirmary in 1874. The palatial design of the workhouse had been created by architect Richard Tress and had cost over £55,000 to construct, boasted central heating, a dining-hall measuring 100 feet by 50 feet, Siberian marble pillars, and a chapel with stained glass windows and a new organ. It closed in 1909 but re-opened as a hospital for chronically ill people becoming known as the City of London Institution in 1912 and as the Bow Institution in 1913. It became a psychiatric unit, known by its most commonly adopted name of 'St Clement's Hospital' in 1936. The west side of the site suffered extensive bomb damage during the

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, destroying the chapel and the sites initial symmetry. The hospital joined the newly formed

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in 1948 and then came under the same management as the

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in 1968. After services were transferred to a new Adult Mental Health Facility at Mile End Hospital, the hospital closed in February 2006.

London's First Community Land Trust

Following the hospital's closure the site was transferred from the

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, then to the

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, and eventually the

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, who marketed it as a regeneration opportunity in 2011. Following a long campaign, the

announced in April 2012 that the site would include London's first

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broke the ground on the site in March 2014. The house prices are not based on the open market rate but instead are linked to the average median salaries in the

. This formula is reapplied every time a house within the Trust is sold, creating what organisers describe as "truly and permanently affordable housing".

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History

London's First Community Land Trust

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