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Camden New Journal - By DAN CARRIER
Published: 31 January 2008

Neighbour buys butcher’s and says: ‘Shop will stay’

THE former Steele’s butcher’s shop in Hampstead has been sold to a car park management firm based next door.
The Flask Walk shop, which closed at Christmas after butcher Joe Steele retired, has been bought by CP Plus for a figure believed to be about £1.2 million.
Hampstead Town ward’s three Tory councillors have written to the new owner, warning that the street is in desperate need of an independent and useful shop to replace the butcher’s.
Councillor Mike Greene said: “We could do with another butcher’s. What we don’t want is a shop used as an office or some kind of chain store or mobile phone company taking it over.”
CP Plus managing director Ian Langdon said the building would remain residential above, with a shop below.
“We are not sure what type of shop,” he added. “We have had inquiries from butcher’s, bakers and candlestick makers.”
He plans to improve the shop before it reopens. “It needs a fair amount of work on it before it is ready to let,” Mr Langdon said.

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