Petition updateDon't Bin Tin Pan Alley!Updates: More closures and further demolition in Denmark St. As foretold

Save Tin Pan Alley

Sep 10, 2017
This week sees the shrouding of south Denmark Street's numbers 9 and 10 in an orange screen, covering the entire building space to include the roof above the former Gioconda (Flat Iron Steakhouse) and Rose Morris (formerly World of Pianos and Southern Music Publishing). This is happening following on from the eviction of Guitar repairer Tim Marten at 9 (formerly the legendary Central Sound Recording Studios on the 1st Floor) internal demolition begins in earnest for the first of a raft of luxury flats to be built above the remaining music shops.
We can add that Hanks guitar shop at 27 - a Grade 2 Listed and English Heritage monitored building - is under threat of closure. In 2014 Laurence Kirschel of Consolidated Developments stated that Hanks would not be getting their 25 year lease renewed (inherited from Andy Preston). Hanks lease is due to expire in May 2018.
Furthermore, alleged mumblings of "structurally unsound" are now mooted following on from the arrival of two huge drilling rigs and three cranes digging six storey's down to the rear of Hanks in the now demolished Denmark Place.
Next door at 26, also a Georgian Building, the neglected roof and windows appear in a state of disrepair in this empty building, following on from the January 2015 eviction of the former 12 Bar Club.
The campaign will be writing to ward councillor for St Giles, Councillor Sue Vincent, Camden Planning's Jonathan McClue and Historic England's Richard Parrish for re-assurances that this building will remain intact as it is - as conservationist Dan Cruikshank told us - the finest example of an intact 1687 Georgian Building in Central London.
We thought you should know. Please also do feel free to write to those cited. Campaign work is teamwork! This is not just our London. It is YOUR LONDON.
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