{"id":15048,"date":"2017-03-03T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15048"},"modified":"2017-03-03T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:01:16","slug":"calls-for-kensington-odeon-london-to-be-listed-after-1926-interiors-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15048","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Kensington Odeon London to be listed after 1926 interiors revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The <em>Evening Standard<\/em> reports that campaigners opposed to the conversion of the\u00a0Kensington Odeon cinema building into luxury flats have called for it to be given an emergency listing after rare Twenties interiors were exposed by demolition men.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Prynn writes in the <em>Evening Standard<\/em> (2 March):<\/p>\n<p>Guy Oliver, of the Friends of the Kensington Odeon group, said previously hidden Art Deco friezes and tea rooms, and sweeping marble staircases were in danger of being lost within days. Mr. Oliver has contacted the chief executive of Historic England Duncan Wilson, to ask that the Government\u2019s heritage body overturn its advice to ministers in 2007 and 2013 to grant the developers immunity from listing.<\/p>\n<p>The vast auditorium shut its doors in August last year. Developer Minerva is turning the former six-screen cinema and land around it into 43 apartments and town houses, and 20 affordable homes, plus a seven-screen subterranean cinema. Only part of the fa\u00e7ade is being retained and virtually allinterior detailing will be lost. A spokeswoman for Historic England said there would be no change to its advice on the certificate of immunity from listing before the current one lapses in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Minerva said: \u2018extensive measures have been taken to comply with planning and other legal requirements at all stages\u2019 and that \u2018we are working with Museum of London Archaeology to record and analyse any additional original features uncovered during the works\u2019\u00a0and we are \u2018committed to restoring and retaining a number of original internal and external features. The design of the new cinema draws on the heritage of the building and creates a far superior experience.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/lastditch-plea-to-save-historic-kensington-odeon-after-art-deco-friezes-discovered-a34797\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evening Standard reports that campaigners opposed to the conversion of the\u00a0Kensington Odeon cinema building into luxury flats have called for it to be given an emergency listing after rare Twenties interiors were exposed by demolition men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}