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productive roof garden and communal gardens framed by mixed evergreens will provide the green spaces for a proposed new almshouse community in south London. The new, sustainable development will create 62 new one-bedroom flats for Southwark Charities’ Blackfriars site, which has been the site of an almshouse since the 18th century. Double-height terraces on alternate floors will overlook the gardens as will a shared residents’ lounge. The development will

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