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Campaigners argue AHMM-designed scheme is a missed opportunity for not involving women
AHMM has revealed proposals for nearly 1,000 homes for Peabody on the 4ha former Holloway Prison site in north London.
The redevelopment has been criticised by campaigners as a “missed opportunity” for not involving women in the design and construction.
Holloway was western Europe’s largest women’s prison – and one of Britain’s most famous jails – before its closure in 2016. Dozens of suffragettes were incarcerated there as well as Moors murderer Myra Hindley and Diana Mitford, wife of the fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Five women were executed there including Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be judicially hanged in Britain. Oscar Wilde was an inmate before it became a women’s prison.
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