{"id":46358,"date":"2026-04-14T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46358"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:56:42","slug":"museum-of-london-demolition-legal-challenge-dismissed-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46358","title":{"rendered":"Museum of London demolition legal challenge dismissed in court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Museum_Of_London_-_Barbican._4809249130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Museum_Of_London_-_Barbican._4809249130.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Museum_Of_London_-_Barbican._4809249130.jpg 960w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Museum_Of_London_-_Barbican._4809249130-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Museum_Of_London_-_Barbican._4809249130-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-b502400a51d65f8d43ac552dfe412c57\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Museum_Of_London_-_Barbican._(4809249130).jpg\">Museum of London, Barbican (2010) by Jim Linwood from London, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A legal challenge contesting plans to demolish the former Museum of London and nearby buildings to create office blocks has been dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2026 [as] the Corporation&#8217;s policy did not contain \u2018a presumption or expectation against demolition..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barristers representing BQO argued to the court that the Corporation failed to abide by the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations relating to impartiality and objectivity\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 The Museum of London is moving to Smithfield Market, turning the Victorian space in central London into its new base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckge08ynvmdo\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[786,787,229,163,193,35,16],"class_list":["post-46358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-challenge","tag-court","tag-demolition","tag-legal","tag-london","tag-museum","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46360,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358\/revisions\/46360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}