image for illustration: Museum of London, Barbican (2010) by Jim Linwood from London, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A legal challenge contesting plans to demolish the former Museum of London and nearby buildings to create office blocks has been dismissed.
BBC News writes:
A judicial review brought by campaign group Barbican Quarter Organisation (BQO), claiming the City of London Corporation failed to properly consider alternative schemes before approving the project, was rejected by a High Court judge… [as] the Corporation’s policy did not contain ‘a presumption or expectation against demolition..
Barristers representing BQO argued to the court that the Corporation failed to abide by the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations relating to impartiality and objectivity…
… The Museum of London is moving to Smithfield Market, turning the Victorian space in central London into its new base.
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