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All Saints’ Camden store, complete with rusted frontage and skull motif |
All Saints called to judgment: ‘Hostile’ shop front looks set to fall foul of planners
IT is a road renowned for its funky shop fronts, graced by such eye-catching sales pitches as models of a giant pair of Doc Martens boots, a B-52 bomber and a school of tropical fish.
But the installation of a rusted metal frontage on Camden High Street has fallen foul of Camden Council’s planning committee and now trendy global clothing chain All Saints will have to remove it at great expense.
The shop opened last year, overlooking Camden Lock – but at a Town Hall planning meeting tonight (Thursday) the owners are due to be told they have to take the cladding down.
The facade covers the building’s three storeys and includes a spray painted motif of a goat’s skull – the clothing brand’s trademark.
According to council records, in September last year the company applied for planning permission to put up the cladding – but withdrew the scheme before council officials could consider its merits. Instead, the work was done without consent.
The council received a complaint from a resident in nearby Oval Road, who said: “The unauthorised reconstruction of the shop front is very ugly, sinister and totally out of place. The northern end of the High Street has become a shambles of inappropriate treatment of building frontages and 287 has taken things to extremes of bad taste and unsuitable style.”
A council planning office report stated that the shop front “creates an overbearing, unfriendly, hostile and out of scale development”.
All Saints declined to comment. |
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