APPEAL APPLICATION DISMISSED: DEMOLITIONS COMMENCE Reports at hackneycitizen.co.uk/2015/01/21/demolition-georgian-houses-dalston-lane-open-concede-defeat/ and opendalston.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/court-of-appeal-has-refused-to-stop.html It is no reflection of the stamina, commitment and skill on the part of OPEN’s solicitor and campaigner, Bill Parry-Davies, that Lord Justice Sullivan, the third judge to review the case of Dalston Lane Terrace, has refused the campaign group’s application to appeal against the courts decision to allow demolition of Dalston Lane Terrace. The courts have decided that Hackney’s planning committee had the right to disregard clear evidence that the houses could be saved: they thoroughly fouled up the planning decision . . . but within the law. Despite clear policy demanding preservation, planning and legal processes have failed to save Dalston’s Georgian heritage. Hackney’s development partner, Murphy, with the support of their consultants devised a clever fail-safe argument that, ‘with regret’, the buildings are too deteriorated to be restored in any scheme of regeneration. And this, despite Hackney’s very own conservation accredited engineer indicating otherwise. The phase 1 demolitions, involving no.s 66-76 Dalston Lane, have commenced in earnest. We expect to lose the old Sound and Music building at no. 66, pictured, by the end of this week and have a cleared site by the end of next. Today a decorated door case was revealed during the process of demolition. It had presumably been concealed since the shops were built onto the fronts of the houses in 1875. The London stock bricks, which are apparently far to soft and porous to be retained, are being carefully cleaned, wrapped and trucked off to the salvage yard. The value of second hand bricks in itself provides incentive to demolish. Whilst there is no prospect of saving the buildings associated with phase 1, the more significant and less deteriorated buildings at no.s 48-58 - which form phase 2 - are probably programmed for demolition nearer the end of the year. Whilst there is no further legal recourse, we will certainly continue to promote further discussions between Hackney and the Spitalfields Trust, with a view to saving the west end of the terrace. It is not too late to let Jules Pipe know how devastating this outcome is and why he should intervene to save the phase 2 buildings at https://change.org/p/mayor-jules-pipe-allow-the-spitalfields-trust-to-restore-dalston-lane-terrace
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:36:27 +0000
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