Bernard Morgan House - Planning Meeting

The Taylor Wimpey proposals for the Bernard Morgan House site go before the City planning committee on Tuesday 2nd May at 10:00.  Interestingly, the immediately preceding item on the agenda is a proposal to make the area around Bernard Morgan House into a conservation area.

Can both pass?

City officers are recommending that the Taylor Wimpey proposal be approved and have provided a hefty set of notes to committee members which includes notes from officers and the responses to the application (e.g. objections).  The Ben Jonson House objection is on page 293 of the PDF, but is lacking the images which were included with our objection, which is unfortunate.

Click to read the whole officers -> committee pack

The planning meeting is a public meeting, so do go along if you have the time.  You can read all Bernard Morgan House articles here on this blog here.

Water off - 5th May 09:00-17:00

Thames Water are installing a mains meter on Friday 5th May.  This means the water will be off in flats for three hours sometime between 09:00 and 17:00 on that day.

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BMH Demolition Planning Meeting

The application to demolish Bernard Morgan House goes before the planning committee on 2nd May.  If you submitted an objection to the Taylor Wimpey plans you should have received notice of the meeting and instructions should you wish to speak at the planning meeting:

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For the avoidance of rats ...

Vermin are attracted to food waste this, so please put your waste into the bags provided and tie-seal the bags.

Please don't do this

Especially, please don't leave any waste in the corridors over weekends or bank holidays.  If you need to urgently get rid of waste note that residents always have access to the bin store on Golden Lane.

Film School - latest new home

The London Film School were going to move to the Barbican, taking over the parts of Exhibition Hall 1 which had not been occupied by Barbican cinemas 2 & 3, but the cost of fixing up the building proved to be too high.  I have received an Evening Standard newspaper clipping from last November which suggests that the film school will now be moving to London City Island in the Docklands:

Evening Standard 7th November 2016

When the Yellow Shed was the Tin Shed

I have been sent a photograph of Ben Jonson Highwalk dated 27th February 1982 which shows the newly installed corrugated iron + bits of wood and concrete predecessor of the current Yellow Shed:

The temporary shed

Easter Sunday emergency gas work

The "nationalgrid" people told me that having located a gas leak by drilling boreholes over the last few days, it became essential to dig up the road on Easter Sunday morning at 09:30.

Here they are, dealing with the emergency:

Easter holes

Crossrail beneath the Barbican video

A Crossrail update video features the track being installed beneath the Barbican:

Click to watch the video

Barbican Association AGM 27Apr 19:30

The Barbican Association AGM meeting on 27th April at 19:30 in the City of London school for girls assembly hall is already in the house group calendar, but here is the notice as a reminder:

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