IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week’s news features Building on ‘Design changes to Liverpool Street Station following expansion of listing’.
… Great Eastern Hotel….upgraded from grade II to grade II*…
Building writes:
Sellar is preparing to unveil design changes to its £1.5bn redevelopment of Liverpool Street station following Historic England’s decision to expand the site’s listed status.
Last week, the government’s heritage adviser amended its listing for the grade II-listed terminus to include parts of the building which were added during a 1980s rebuild, while the neighbouring Andaz hotel, formerly the Great Eastern Hotel, has also had its listed status upgraded from grade II to grade II*.
The move will potentially create difficulties for the Herzog & de Meuron-designed scheme, which has stirred up a storm of protest from campaigners and heritage groups over its perceived impact on the Victorian-era site….
Significantly, Historic England did not decide to list some elements of the 1980s redevelopment ….These elements will be demolished as part of the Sellar scheme and replaced with public realm….
Historic England said the listing review was requested both by Sellar and by campaigners, with the assessment aiming to provide clarity about the station and the Andaz hotel to inform the emerging proposals for both sites.
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