TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act to authorise the stopping-up of a part of Kensington Gore, London S.W.7, on the south side of the Royal Albert Hall.   If the Order is made, the stopping-up will be authorised only in order to enable the development described in the Schedule to this notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted to Building Design Partnership by the City of Westminster on 19th January 1998 under Ref. EP/TP8746/S/BW.   The proposed Order will also require an improvement to Kensington Gore by widening.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 22nd May 1998, at the offices of the City of Westminster, One Stop Services, Westminster City Hall, London S.W.1, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for London (quoting Ref. LRO34/X5990/1/049) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 22nd May 1998 by notice to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, quoting the above reference, at the Government Office for London, Transport Management Division, 8 W19, Riverwalk House, 157-161 Millbank, London SW1P 4RR.   In preparing an objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of it may be imparted to other persons who may be affected by it and that those persons may wish to communicate with the objector about it.   This notice supersedes that published on 20th March 1998, in that a further period of 28 days is given for inspecting the draft Order and relevant plan and for objecting to the making of the Order.   The proposals referred to in the earlier notice are unaltered and any objections made to the Secretary of State in response to that notice will be considered as still standing unless the Secretary of State is advised otherwise by the objectors. J. Carter, a Senior Executive Officer, Transport Management Division, Planning and Transport Directorate, Government Office for London.

Schedule

  Demolition of part of existing basements and car park vaults; dismantling and re-erection of the terraces to the south of the Hall, ballustrading and the Memorial to the Exhibition of 1851; repositioning of vehicular access ramps to basement; construction of new basement services yard, plant rooms, dressing rooms, workshops and car park; alterations and extensions to the south porch, and associated works within the Hall at Gallery level behind the organ, demolition of the existing south staircase and alterations to the accesses to the upper Choir stalls; forming associated works within the lower sections of the Hall.