Environmental sustainability
The BA has set up an environmental sustainability group, which is
busy talking to the estate office about ways of improving the
Barbican's energy profile. First results of the
Sustainability group's collaboration with UCL on the Estate's energy
efficiency can be viewed
here.
Jane Smith chairBA@btinternet.com
Cinemas 2 and 3 – planning permission application
The Arts Centre has posted its answers to questions raised on its own website
[http://www.barbican.org.uk/about-barbican/residents]
The Barbican Association’s cinema group (Bruce Badger (Ben Jonson),
Paul Bowers Isaacson (Breton), Janet Haber (Cromwell), Christian
Keesing (Cromwell), Randall Anderson (BA, RCC), Robert Barker (BA),
Jane Smith (BA)) have decided on the following approach.
On sound monitoring, we are reasonably assured that the design of
the cinema should ensure no structure borne noise and also enough
attenuation of airborne noise that the cinemas will not cause a
nuisance to residents above and around the cinemas. We are seeking
further undertakings about limits on the noise levels within the
cinemas and in the foyer areas and plant areas and we also want to
see a sound monitoring regime put in place to make sure that the
integrity of the box within the box design (which limits the noise)
is maintained through the life of the cinema.
On the operation of the building we are seeking conditions on:
sorts of café and
restaurant,
hours of operation of
cinemas and café and restaurant
The BA will object to the listed building consent on the grounds
that the current design does not respect the listed design of the
Barbican. The main problem here is the “light box” translucent glass
at the mezzanine level. We would also like to see double doors on
The BA would encourage the surrounding house groups to put in their
own comments/objections by the closing date of 14 February because
that gives them the right to speak at the planning committee
meeting.
Planning applications
Exhibition Hall 1, Barbican Trade
Centre,
10/00874/FULLR3
(i) Installation of new external facade cladding system. (ii)
Installation of new plant equipment and services
Exhibition Hall 1, Barbican Trade
Centre,
10/00876/FULLR3
Change of use of existing Barbican Exhibition Hall 1, east end (D1).
To use class D2 - cinema, A3 cafe and A3 restaurant
Exhibition Hall 1, Barbican Trade
Centre,
10/00875/LBC
Internal and external alterations to include the installation of new
external facade cladding in lieu of existing and new plant equipment
alterations for internal enabling works
Crossrail
Crossrail is moving fast on its stations, as
the closure of Boots and other shops in Moorfields illustrates.
The City and Crossrail have set up a
consultation forum specifically to cover the Barbican area, so it
covers all the area from the east side of the Farringdon Station to
the west side of the
As local residents will know, work on
demolishing the ground floor and basement of the old
Hotels
Developers have been consulting on two proposals for hotels nearby. The first, which we heard about before Christmas, is a proposal to turn the old telephone exchange in Moor Lane into two hotels – an “apartment” hotel on the Willoughby side of the site, with a taller four star hotel behind it, with the two linked by a courtyard. This proposal has not yet been formally submitted as a planning application.
The more recent proposal is to turn Roman
House, on the corner of
From the chair, Jane Smith (chairBA@btinternet.com)