The following message is from the Barbican Association planning committee chair letting us know about the publication of the Film School planning application. A subset of the planning application documents are available here on Google Drive. The full set of documents are available via the link below.
The house group will hold a meeting for residents in the early part of the week of Thursday 14th to discuss the plans while still leaving time for people to submit comments (remember that you have to call your comments "objections" in order for them to count in the planning process).
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http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/planning/planning-applications/view-planning-applications/Pages/default.aspx
Best regards,
Garth
p.s. A brief extract (part 5, pp 12-13). We should think what to press for in the management plan, including on hours for public access and for deliveries.
2.9 Neighbourly considerations
Noise and vibration
The proposed works include areas of demolition and removal of reinforced concrete slabs, plus noise and vibration from general building works. These are clearly major issues for the residents and other stakeholders including the adjacent school, cinema and restaurant. At this stage, it is difficult, if not impossible to predict the effect of vibration through the structure associated with whatever demolition method is ultimately chosen.
To date we have been liaising with the Pollution Team from Environmental Health, at the City of London, and commenced some initial discussions with the stakeholders. We have also contacted the project manager for the Barbican cinemas project.
We are aware of the following issues:
• Construction deliveries to be managed around Richard Cloudsley school bus drop off and collections
• City of London’s deconstruction code requirements for demolition
• Need to have appropriate specialist contractor advice
• Issues with hand tools and not being classified as noisy works
• Potential for noise monitoring
• Hours of noisy works
Construction works are not programmed to commence until spring/summer 2016 so we believe there is time to consult with the relevant parties and the Barbican Association.
Structural works in relation to residential accommodation above
The main structural works involve removing areas of first floor slab under the external podium in order to form double storey height spaces. The works entail removing areas of concrete floor slab at first floor and the alterations will reduce the overall weight on the foundations.
The proposals avoid any structural intervention at basement level and so the structural load paths have been designed to ensure that the existing load paths are maintained and that there are no significant additional loads at basement level.
The proposed main structural works are all under the external podium level and not under Breton House terrace above and this has been a key driver of the design process. None of the main structural alterations are directly under residential accommodation.
The design has been driven by the desire to minimise the structural intervention and in view of the above points there are no proposals to survey and monitor Breton House.
Hours of use, access, deliveries
A management plan will be developed in due course by the LFS and discussed and agreed with the landlord and the Barbican Association prior to occupation.
The hours of use identified within the planning application forms cover the overall requirements for day-to-day, as well as evening events. The regime and hours for deliveries, refuse collection, loading and unloading of equipment will need to be agreed as part of the management plan.
Mitigating against light spillage / light pollution
A desk top study has been carried out on the potential for light spillage from the first floor open administration office onto Golden Lane. This is overlooked in particular by some of the Ben Jonson flats that bridge over Golden Lane.
These offices will generally be occupied during normal office hours. The foyer and cafe at the ground floor are considered less of a concern as the entrance area is set back under an undercroft and the ground level glazing looks out under the underpass tunnel area at the junction of Golden Lane and Beech street.
The design of the lighting will need to comply with the requirements of BSEN 12464 and CIBSE LG7. At the next design stage, the number of luminaires will be minimised and the distance of them away from the window wall maximised. The fittings will be carefully selected to minimise light spillage.
An option being considered is to also reduce the general lighting illumination level within the offices to approximately 200lux, for safe circulation purposes and to create a glow rather than a bright light. To supplement this lower general lighting level local lighting would be required to get the required task level illumination within the areas.
An option that the Barbican Association asked to be considered were deeper fins to the glazing but we believe that reducing the potential for light spillage rather than introducing fins to be a better approach. The fins would also need to be very deep to be effective.
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