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Planning applications validated As all residents will now be well aware, the planning applications to demolish Bastion House and the Museum of London and redevelop the site primarily for office use have now been submitted to and validated by the City of London Corporation’s Planning Department. There are three applications: The full application, together with … Continued

The Twentieth Century Society places Bastion House and the Museum of London on their Buildings At Risk list. At a packed meeting in St Giles’s Church on Wednesday evening (17th January) Coco Whittaker, Senior Caseworker at the Twentieth Century Society, announced that Bastion House and the Museum of London are being recognised as one of the … Continued

Barbican Quarter Action will be hosting a meeting for residents and neighbours at 7pm on Tuesday 17th January 2023 in St Giles Church, Cripplegate to discuss and provide an update on the proposed redevelopment  for the London Wall West, the site encompassing the City of London Museum and Bastion House. Speakers at the previous BQA … Continued

The BQA has commissioned two reports by leading UK experts: Simon Sturgis of Targeting Zero and Bob Stagg of Conisbee Structural Engineering. They demonstrate that the Court of Common Council has been misled about the carbon footprint of the London Wall West scheme. We presented these findings to the Councillors at a webinar on Monday … Continued

Copy of open letter sent to Chris Hayward, Chair of the City of London’s Policy & Resources Committee on 23 June 2022 OVERALL COMMENT We are dismayed that the fundamentals of the proposed design remain the same as those we saw last December. The scheme proposes the demolition of Bastion House and the Museum of … Continued