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Pizza Express: Kentish Town Road – the most controversial Pizza Express?

Back in 2010 there was a high-profile local campaign, in which the Liberal Democrats played a key part, to save the 1929 building housing Kentish Town’s Pizza Express from demolition. Originally built for the then North West London Polytechnic it still has many of its period features, including a graceful balcony and an attractive dome in the middle of the ceiling. All that made the plans extremely controversial in the local community.

The campaigners won that round of the battle to reject proposals to replace the building with a rather bland piece of modern construction that would have seen the Pizza Express turned into a set of flats.

However, the threat has returned this summer with talk of an appeal over the rejection – so it was perhaps a good thing that my London tour of Pizza Expresses took me to it today. (If you would like to know how you can help the fight to save the building, get in touch with local councillor Matt Sanders.)

Architecture great, and as for the food – not half bad either.

So that is 23 down, 115 (or thereabouts) to go.

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