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Museum vision still falls short
• FOLLOWING Bill Reed’s comments on the latest application for the British Museum extension, I would like to reiterate that the revised scheme falls very far short of answering Camden’s reasons for refusal of the initial application.
The Bloomsbury Conservation Advisory Committee will be objecting to this new application in the strongest terms.
Although the end window of the Arched Room is no longer blocked, the scheme is still an overdevelopment shoehorned into the site to the detriment of the surrounding listed buildings, all listed Grade I.
Much of the natural daylight to the Arched Room would still belost – as will two thirds of the daylightcurrently enjoyed by theNorthStairsanda good proportion of the lightreaching theEdward VII Gallery.
The appalling proposal to “punch” holes in the base of the Great Court North facade still remains, as does the totally inappropriate (and unnecessary) facade at the end of Malet Street.
Dr Hugh Cullum
Chairman, Bloomsbury Conservation Advisory Committee
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