“You find a disused rotten building and ...'

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http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=453&storycode=3104392&c=2

“You find a disused rotten building and you keep as much as possible.” Simon Allford talks to Will Hunter about his firm’s conversion of a former methodist church into a private art gallery

 

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I've always thought that architects must lick their lips at the prospect of a project that takes a beautiful period building and completely changes its use, while retaining and conserving as much as possible of the original fabric.

It must be such an exciting and challenging exercise.

 

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One, sadly which KPF seems not to have thought about when drawing up the plans to ruin Smithfield.

Still, we may yet not have to endure the plans.

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3104661&c=2&encCode=000000000143b0d6

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3104119

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=725&storycode=3103674

 

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Latest report:

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3104834

I suspect Mr K's nose is growing longer e'en as I type.

 

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Closing submissions now available on the inquiry website (apart from EH's which is not yet 'live')

Here's SAVE's:

http://www.persona.uk.com/smithfield/SAVE_docs/add_docs/SBH-10.pdf

 

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H:Conclusions
1.These applications are an attempt by the applicant and the City to drive a bulldozer preceded by a ball and chain through national and local heritage policies. This decision will be a test of the Government’s commitment to its heritage policies and a development plan led system of planning. It will also be a test of its commitment to participatory decision making. It will also be a test of its vision. It raises the question of whether the City is in effect, in the belief of which it appears to have acted, a plan free office zone. It is a decision which will be closely watched by landowners and developers. They will not view consents as unique but as a precedent.

2.If a well funded landowner with a substantial local estate such as the City of London can, with impunity, flagrantly flout national and local policies then local authorities throughout the kingdom, most of whom are subject to far greater financial pressure, will seek to do the same. Developers will seek
to make secret agreements of this kind. Landowners will neglect historic buildings in the hope of enjoying similar benefits.

Mr McCracken, for EH, in his summing up last week at the Smithfield Inquiry.

http://www.persona.uk.com/smithfield/EH_docs/add_docs/EH-23.pdf

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=725&storycode=3104834&c=1&encCode=000000000143db82