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A stay of execution for court
MARYLEBONE Magistrates Court won a stay of execution after planning chiefs put the brakes on plans to demolish the building.
Her Majesty’s Court Service wanted to build a new 10-court building to serve Westminster after selling off historic Bow Street and Horseferry Road courts.
The proposal involved the demolition of the existing court building at 181 Marylebone Road and the demolition of most of the original 1848 county court building at 179. The existing building is described by council planning officers as “a fine example of a civic building of late Victorian period, its exuberant design perfectly encapsulating the spirit of the time. It is a good example of its type and forms a local landmark on the Marylebone Road.”
Local conservation campaigner Linda Hardman said: “The building has been a local landmark for over a century and its frontage should be retained as part of the new court building. Its demolition would be an act of vandalism”.
The council has told the architects to find a way of incorporating the existing frontage in a new court building.
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