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Turnmills could be bulldozed
BULLDOZERS could soon descend on the former home of legendary nightclub Turnmills after developers announced plans to demolish the building.
The scene of many an all-night rave, Turnmills was the first club in England to win a 24-hour licence. But the building at the corner of Turnmill Street and Clerkenwell Road could soon be no more. It was built in 1886 as warehousing and stables for the Great Northern Railway Company and in the 1930s it became a warehouse for Booth’s Distilleries. Only in more recent years has it made its name as nightclub Turnmills.
The club was forced to shut down when its lease expired last year after landlords Derwent London won permission to convert the building into a five-storey office block.
But last week developers lodged a new planning application, with proposals to flatten the club and replace it with a seven-storey office block with shops, offices, a restaurant and bar.
Gerald Eve LLP, acting for the developers, said a replacement building is the only solution for the site because refurbishment is not financially viable.
Danny Newman, whose family used to run Turnmills, said: “It was an interesting space and that’s what made the club what it was.”
The deadline for objections is September 3. |
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