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by RICHARD OSLEY
 
Mission to save much-loved building from the bulldozers

Developers want to build eight-storey housing complex after demolition

CONSERVATIOISTS have launched a rescue mission to save a grand Edwardian building from the bulldozer.
Planning officials are currently considering proposals to demolish Lyndhurst Hall in Warden Road, Gospel Oak (pictured).
The Notting Hill Housing Trust, who bought the former social club from Camden Council in 2004, want to replace the four-storey property with a new eight-storey housing complex. But the project has caused unrest about the loss of a long-standing fixture which campaigners say is one of the neighbourhood’s few notable buildings.
Terence Ewing, from conservation group The Euston Trust, has urged English Heritage to list the building and protect it against demolition.
Mr Ewing said: “Although it is understood that the present building isn’t in a conservation area, it clearly makes a ‘positive contribution’ architecturally to what is otherwise a rather drab area.
“Replacement designs constitute overdevelopment of the site for eight storeys, and would be out of place regarding the surrounding buildings, as none of the local council estate buildings are more than three stories high.”
He added: “The loss of Lyndhurst Hall would be a great loss to this part of Kentish Town, which apart from this building and the adjacent building on the corner has nothing of architectural merit at all.”
The Housing Trust has not commented on its plans for the site but architects working for the company have insisted that the building could not be renovated.
 
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