Duke of Westminster gives Pimlico small shopkeepers the boot to make way for large stores and luxury flats

‘The Duke of Westminster, Britain’s richest landowner, has given a string of independent shop owners in a much-loved Pimlico street notice to quit by Christmas.

Protesters say the six shops in SW1’s Pimlico Road have helped give the street an international reputation as an interior design hub. They claim the mix of galleries, antiques shops and homeware stores creates a special atmosphere found nowhere else in London.

They say the Duke’s property firm, Grosvenor Estate, wants to bulldoze six small shops and a neighbouring Victorian timber yard to make way for large stores and luxury flats.

Grosvenor Estate says its plans would enhance the street.’

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