Editing Knightsbridge (section)

====History of property construction====
Land in Knightsbridge is for the most part identified by City of Westminster (and by the [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea|RBKC]], where former [[Brompton, London|Brompton]] parts are included) as strengthened [[planning restrictions|planning law]]-governed [[Conservation Areas]]: 'Albert Gate', 'Belgravia', 'Knightsbridge' and 'Knightsbridge Green'.<ref>[http://transact.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Conservation%20Areas%20Jan%202013.pdf Conservation Areas Map. Numbers 22, 23, 36 and 37] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206001728/http://transact.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Conservation%20Areas%20Jan%202013.pdf |date=6 December 2014 }} City of Westminster.  Retrieved 26 November 2014</ref> Properties must be offered here by developers as refurbished flats or houses meeting the enhanced architectural demands in the local Conservation Areas policy of the Local Plan. Within each many buildings are covered by the similar but separate requirements of being [[listed building|listed]]. Growing demand has since 2000 persuaded the authority to revise its planning policies to permit roof terraces and basement extensions, for residential facilities from leisure suites to private nightclubs, a degree of [[liberal economy|economic liberalisation]] documented by a non-tabloid paper in 2008.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3361725/Property-with-swimming-pools-The-deep-end.html Property with Swimming Pools: The Deep End] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205055425/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3361725/Property-with-swimming-pools-The-deep-end.html |date=5 December 2014 }} Sonia Purnell, ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'', 29 June 2008.</ref>

The [[reversion (law)|underlying landowners]] of the few streets making up, without any dispute, Knightsbridge are the [[Duke of Westminster]], [[Earl Cadogan|Lord Cadogan]] and the [[Wellcome Trust]] with a minority of the [[freehold (law)|freehold]]s to houses in each street [[leasehold enfranchisement|sold to others]]. Red-brick [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne revival]] buildings form most of the [[Cadogan Estates]], whereas white stucco-fronted houses are mostly found on the [[Grosvenor Estate]], designed by architect [[Thomas Cubitt]].<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28695#s8  "Settlement and building: From 1865 to 1900", ''A History of the County of Middlesex'': Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 66–78] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060305092848/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28695 |date=5 March 2006 }}. Retrieved 11 June 2007</ref>

The [[Brompton Oratory]], a place of [[Catholic]] worship, marks one of the transitions into [[Kensington, London|Kensington]], but [[Belgravia]] and [[Brompton, London|Brompton]] have competing mapped neighbourhood status in the east and south of the neighbourhood, and as they have no eponymously named tube stations or historic parish boundaries, their limits are arbitrary and the triangular salient of Brompton, administratively in Kensington, as part of [[South Kensington]], once coloured mid-wealth by Charles Booth, is now blurred with 'Knightsbridge', into which it long projected.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

Brompton is only used when the postcode and/or Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is being emphasised, rather than the modern [[Central London]] 'district' definitions, which suggest Knightsbridge or South Kensington, either [[Knightsbridge tube station|tube station]], being at most 350 m away and thus can be easily found on all maps.