Another new Foxtons office, another local campaign against it. The agency that some Londoners appear to love-to-hate is in the middle of another neighbourhood row.
This time the location is Stoke Newington, where an office is scheduled to open next week. Residents say they are concerned about the company's legendary all-evening lights on appearance, which locals say would spoil the look of the conservation area in which the branch will be located.
Liz Vater, director of a Hackney literature festival, is quoted in a local paper as saying: It was probably inevitable that Stoke Newington was next on Foxtons' rampaging expansion plan while another opponent - Nick Perry - is quoted as describing the firm as having a brash, aggressive approach, and a shop design to match which couldn't have been less welcome in the area.
The official statement from Nic Budden, chief operating officer at Foxtons, says: We have enjoyed operating in these areas for a number of years from our neighbouring offices, but now with a new office on their doorstep we look forward to playing an even more active role in the local community.
When planning consent was sought for the Stoke Newington office, opponents claimed it would be the 10th agent on the half-mile strip between Stoke Newington High Street to the east and Albion Road to the west.
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haha,,enviromentally friendly now..nice try.. At least foxtons do the job properly like every other self respecting person who starts an estate agents with an office..Internet agents just try to trade off honest businesses by cutting corners and ripping off media guided people with no idea of how to sell a house...next
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