For the sake of clarification, the Beehive isn't nationally listed, it is a locally listed building but it is also within a Conservation Area, and thus cannot be demolished without approval from the Council.Regarding the Packhorse & Talbot in Chiswick, an application was made for prior approval to demolish that unlisted building outside a conservation area. That application could only be determinedm (by law) having regard to the method of demolition (i.e. with no regard to any desire to retain the building) so LBH basically got off its backside and before the 28 day period for the determination of that application LBH got the building and its surroundings designated as a Conservation Area, thereby rendering the application irrelevant.Which still grates on me purely because it shouldn't take such a scenario for a Council to designate a Conservation Area, the Council had dragged its heels over that part of the High Road for years, and although its decision to designate the area as a Conservation Area wasn't ruled unlawful in the subsequent legal proceedings, the judge did make some damning statements about the Council's behaviour in dragging its heels previously.
Adam Beamish ● 3334d