Brand New!! Westminster Consults On A Particular Planning Policy To Protect Fine Art Galleries

The City of Westminster is currently consulting on proposals for a NEW Special Planning Policy designed to to protect the fine art galleries currently located inwards Mayfair & St James together with especially the remaining galleries inwards Cork Street. 

You get got an chance to comment earlier 14th Feb - together with practise non ask to live on a resident of Westminster to practise so.

The galleries include ones which get got been pivotal inwards advancing the careers of many overstep artists inwards the UK

Cover of the Consultation Document

Below is the content of a missive of the alphabet I've received from Messums - ane of the overstep dealers inwards the area - together with a gallery who exhibits a number of artists who are mentioned on this spider web log from fourth dimension to fourth dimension (people similar Daphne Todd, Pete Brown, William Bowyer, Tom Coates, Jane Corsellis, Saied Dai, Ruth Stage etc)

They are highlighting the consultation virtually the proposed novel policy to protect fine art galleries inwards Mayfair together with St. James - and the deadline for comments which is 14th Feb 2014.

I am writing to depict your attending to an exciting consultation paper of late issued past times Westminster Council, proposing the creation of a novel Special Policy Area (SPA) inwards Mayfair, London to protect the futurity of fine art dealers together with inwards exceptional Cork Street equally a centre for the arts. It builds on the existing SPAs inwards St James’s, inwards favour of fine art dealers together with somebody clubs, together with Savile Row, inwards favour of the tailors.

Our concern is that amongst out it, the extraordinary concentration of overstep shape fine art dealers inwards Mayfair together with St James’s, which contributes together with thence significantly to the London fine art scene, volition come upwardly nether threat from novel developments together with quickly ascent rents, driven past times the advance of the fashion manufacture together with the influx of wealthy foreigners looking at belongings inwards the expanse equally a condom identify for their money.

The indicate nosotros would brand is that inwards may ways the fine art merchandise together with streets similar Cork Street get got given Mayfair its richly hewn tapestry. It has helped to practise the special grapheme of the expanse together with larn inwards a desirable identify to see together with alive together with if the fine art draw of piece of job concern is driven out, this grapheme may live on lost together with about of the long term economical wellness together with vitality of the expanse volition larn amongst it.

We are delighted that Westminster Council get got accepted the possiblity of this loss, together with that they are proposing an SPA policy, which aims, non to foreclose the fashion merchandise or wealthy unusual residents from moving in, only to endeavor together with ensure that at that topographic point is about residue together with that this is non at the expense of the fine art trade.

However they practise ask to listen peoples views on this recommendation, together with inwards exceptional from those who value together with taste Cork Street together with this business office of Mayfair equally an of import centre for Art.

Whether you lot are resident inwards the UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland or overseas, I practise promise that you lot volition see adding your weight to what Westminster Council are trying to practise together with that you lot volition write to the Council inwards back upwardly of their plans. The address to write to is ready out on the final page of the proposal paper which tin live on accessed inwards total via this link, together with the consultation catamenia ends on fourteen February, together with thence it is of import to human activeness inside time. 

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Relevant documents are:

• Study of Art Galleries inwards St James's, Oct 2012
• Current consultation on Westminster & St James: Developing Westminster's Local Plan - especially pages 3, ix together with 15

All comments on the proposals should live on directed to the City Planning Department of Westminster City Council - details of how to practise this are on page eighteen of the pdf file - BEFORE fourteen February. Comments should focus on

• whether or non you lot back upwardly the proposed plans and 
• any planning considerations relevant to the ask to brand special provision to protect specialist niche economical uses which are NOT currently protected nether electrical flow planning policy.

Other relevant context includes:

• The Art Newspaper - Westminster council moves to protect Mayfair galleries
  The urban gist proposes making the arts district a special policy expanse inwards reply to encroaching fashion shops
• Change.org - Westminster Council: Save Cork Street: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 British fine art establishment threatened past times developers
• The Guardian / The Observer
• Galleries are forced out of their historic London home (19 Jan 2014) Cork Street dealers tell belongings evolution is a threat to grapheme of St James together with Mayfair
• Mayfair's Cork Street fine art hub nether threat from developers (23 September 2012) Half of galleries may live on forced out equally upmarket London fine art district faces existence 'killed off past times the greed of the landlords'
• Cork Street: London fine art scene's historic commercial heart (20 Auguust 2012) Mayfair street was ane time the fundamental address for fine art dealers, only they get got been spreading across the upper-case missive of the alphabet since the 1960s

This is a photograph I took inwards Cork Street about 10 days agone - about 7 galleries get got unopen on ane side of the street - the edifice volition live on demolished together with it's unliklely the galleries which get got unopen volition return

Closed Galleries inwards Cork Street
(the ane on the left amongst the lite on is Messums)

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