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The expected planning application for the formation of a “Community Room within Library, with new steel screens and doors and alterations to existing screens” has now been submitted. The planning reference number is 22/00895/LBC and can be viewed here. The background to and aims of this proposal were posted on this website on 5th September. … Continued

Barbican Podium Phase 2 works The Barbican Estate has applied for permission for the “Excavation of 43 temporary 500mm x 500mm trial hole investigations across the Barbican Podium, land above Beech Street”. The application reference number is 22/00825/LBC and the full details can be accessed here. This is, clearly, all to do with the Barbican … Continued

By way of a reminder, in 2019-2020 the Barbican Association agreed to support an application for CIL neighbourhood funds* (CILNF) for the creation of a room in the Barbican library that could be used as a community room and made available to residents and residents’ groups and other community groups – on a similar model … Continued

Please help create a Better Barbican by volunteering to join the Leaseholder Service Charge Working Party that: Works with City Officers to improve the City’s processes and policies that ensure service charges provide good value when delivering the services defined in our Service Level Agreements Examines leaseholder service charges and the basis of their calculation, … Continued

The new Barbican Prohibition Signs finally received planning consent on the 6th July and have been ordered. There are enamel, colourful measuring 300mm x 600mm approx. 1 foot  high x 2 feet in width and scheduled to arrive by the end of August.  The new signs will be sited in approved locations in the main ‘problem … Continued