Country Life

Bella Mackie

‘I would ban cars from Zone 1 entirely, which is so unrealistic’

How long have you lived in London?

My whole life; always North London.

Do you think the city has changed at all?

I think the main thing for me is how homogenised the high streets have become. The biggest one is King’s Cross, which, when I was growing up,], because they thought he was a client. It was hilarious. The area’s now supposedly our answer to Silicon Valley. And I sort of hate it. They built it up in six or seven years and it doesn’t quite work because it didn’t evolve naturally.

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