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 features the Building how campaigners saved Liverpool Street station, last time.
… a coalition of conservationists….is the reformation of an earlier campaign group which led….opposition to the demolition of the station in the 1970s…
Building writes:
When the Shard developer Sellar revealed its plans to radically redevelop Liverpool Street last year – proposals which would see much of the existing station demolished and 10 storeys of office space built over the top of the grade-II listed Andaz hotel – heritage groups were quick to mobilise.
… despite tweaks… campaigners are still gearing up for a fight ahead of a planning application…
It is perhaps unsurprising that heritage groups are not backing down, after all, this is a battle that they have fought before.
Set up last month, The Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA), a coalition of conservationists including Save Britain’s Heritage, The Twentieth Century Society and the Victorian Society, is the reformation of an earlier campaign group which led a (mostly) successful opposition to the demolition of the station in the 1970s.
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