In London, buildings with an entrance for the rich and one for “the poor…”

To obtain planning permission, British developers must include low-rent apartments in their housing projects.

It is modern day segregation. In London, luxury buildings have two separate entrances, reports the Guardian (article in English), July 25: a large, modern and luxurious entrance and a service, called "poor door" (entry of the poor). 

How to explain this arrangement? To obtain planning permission, UK developers must include apartments in moderate rents to their real estate projects. A way to cope with the high density of London. The Guardian evokes the case of a building which has an entrance, worthy of a luxury hotel, with sofas and marble. At the corner of the building, in an adjacent alley, is another entrance, in the middle of the shops. In the first, there is the concierge's lodge, in the second, video surveillance cameras. 

The distinction does not end there: "local trash cans and separate elevators, more or less well-equipped bicycle garages or prohibited access to the car park and to certain floors", reports the Monde.fr. If the mayor of London condemns this segregation, he refuses to ban this practice, explaining that it allows not to increase the prices of housing.

source: Francetvinfo.fr

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