Threat to Commonwealth Institute reduced
Commonwealth Institute not a 'special case'
Tessa Jowell reported to Parliament: ‘We have encouraged the Commonwealth Institute to work with English Heritage on a listed building consent application which we understand they hope to submit to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea later this year. We have no plans to introduce a bill that will give powers to demolish all or part of the buildings on the Commonwealth Institute site’.
The Commonwealth had put a lot of pressure on the government to allow them to cash in on land values and allow the demolition of one of the most interesting modernist buildings in London.
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