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Mission to save much-loved building from the bulldozers
Developers want to build eight-storey housing complex after demolition
CONSERVATIOISTS have launched a rescue mission to save a
grand Edwardian building from the bulldozer.
Planning officials are currently considering proposals to demolish
Lyndhurst Hall in Warden Road, Gospel Oak (pictured).
The Notting Hill Housing Trust, who bought the former social
club from Camden Council in 2004, want to replace the four-storey
property with a new eight-storey housing complex. But the project
has caused unrest about the loss of a long-standing fixture
which campaigners say is one of the neighbourhood’s few
notable buildings.
Terence Ewing, from conservation group The Euston Trust, has
urged English Heritage to list the building and protect it against
demolition.
Mr Ewing said: “Although it is understood that the present
building isn’t in a conservation area, it clearly makes
a ‘positive contribution’ architecturally to what
is otherwise a rather drab area.
“Replacement designs constitute overdevelopment of the
site for eight storeys, and would be out of place regarding
the surrounding buildings, as none of the local council estate
buildings are more than three stories high.”
He added: “The loss of Lyndhurst Hall would be a great
loss to this part of Kentish Town, which apart from this building
and the adjacent building on the corner has nothing of architectural
merit at all.”
The Housing Trust has not commented on its plans for the site
but architects working for the company have insisted that the
building could not be renovated. |
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