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THE ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Spring 2019 Number 355 www.stmarylebonesociety.org Registered Charity 274082 VICTORIA COACH STATION – A RIGHT ROYAL OAK MESS! Victoria Coach Station The future of Victoria Coach Station is now under discussion. At Victoria, there are two separate sites: the Departures site with the Art Deco building, is partly owned by TfL, and part of that will be needed during the construction of Crossrail II. (see www.crossrail2.co.uk), and the Arrivals site, which will revert to the Grosvenor Estate shortly. Options include moving the coach station much further out of London to a spot already provided with a fast rail link to the centre, such as Old Oak Common, (which is expected to be a future transport hub), or to have several smaller coach facilities with similar links. Stratford has been suggested as a possibility. TfL owns a site at Royal Oak, between the underground station and the Westway, and this now appears to be the only site under consideration, to the dismay of local residents and WCC. Not only will the congestion and pollution caused by the coaches in the Victoria area be transferre d to Paddington, there will be some impact on A40 traffic with the use of the Westway slipways to access the site, and a significant impact on the already congested strategic roads in the area. Coaches may use smaller residential streets at will. For us, this may mean some coaches still stopping in the area with the associated problems of congestion and idling. Both Labour and Conservatives at WCC have published petitions against this London-Victoria Coach Station – 1960s poster. Clive Bowley Collection. proposal. continued overleaf ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY AGM 2018 We were delighted to welcome our to demolition. Marylebone House will available. A paper petition was Patron Lord Montagu, Westminster have its façade saved but the large distributed along with details of the Councillors, Westminster Planning replacement building drew no objectors online version. officers and over 80 members to Old to the plan. The NCR building had been 3) Marylebone Forum – Marylebone Town Hall, where the granted permission for an extra storey Sarah Buttleman – CIL Funds society was founded seventy years ago but recently all work stopped on site. Consultation. in July 1948. 191 Old Marylebone Lane had plans to 1. Election of Officers – be demolished for a hotel but TFL The MF’s work with neighbourhood planning in the community falls into two Elected by majority: Hon. Secretary – refused the scheme worried about access. BS2W was due to switch in areas: a) with planning policy but were Mo Parkes, Membership Secretary & currently waiting for a citywide plan and Newsletter – Robert McAulay. Re- February/March 2019 and had found resources to restore and refurbish the the mayor’s plan; and b) the Community elected en bloc: Gaby Higgs, Mike Infrastructure Levy which raises taxes Wood, Cynthia Poole, Sara Gibson, drinking fountain in Baker Street. Regen t’s Park is now been registered as from developers of £4.5M for WCC. Patricia Kleinman, & Ian Wylie. The MF has access to £670K to spend Anthony Alford was voted in as a charity. Resiting of a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst to Regent’s on the Marylebone area and wishes to Independent Examiner again. The post garner opinions on community projects. of Hon. Treasurer is vacant. College was rejected. An installation about the World War 1 Post Office in the Mike Wood expressed thanks to the Park at Cumberland Green was part of Gaby Higgs and Cynthia Poole for the centennial remembrance events (see work they both do for SMS. Also the p6). Marylebone Train Station had Westminster Town Hall organisers and increased air pollution and noise since venue staff for the AGM. Gifts were the Oxford service had been introduced. given to High Small, Richard Bowden There are plans to trial a new hybrid and Caroline Keen for all help given to train (see p4). SMS. Gaby Higgs showed a film about ‘St Marylebone’s War Diary’ then gave a very well received talk about “The foundation and early work of the St Marylebone Society 1948-1958”. Gaby then gave thanks for the support of those attending and made an appeal for any relevant papers, photos and Hugh Small and Peggy Gunst. ephemera to add to the SMS archive. 2. Treasurer’s Report – The society needs a Hugh Small Presented his final report Johan van der Merwe, Julia Alexander and Sheila D’Souza at as outgoing Hon. Treasurer, which will the AGM reception. TREASURER be verified by Anthony Alford and Any Other Business We are looking for anyone with signed off at the next Council 1) Dorset Square Trust – meeting. An appeal was made bookkeeping/accountancy and Excel for a replacement Treasurer and/or Pedro Mendez – Airport Coach Stops. experience. The DST wished to raise awareness of bookkeeper. The work does not take up too 3. Planning Applications – the new coach stop and the problems arising in a residential area of noise, much time and can be done to fit Cynthia Poole: SMS considered and pollution and anti-social behaviour and t heir own schedule. commented on 172 planning requested support for a petition to move applications. With over 32 phone box the stops to a non-residential area. Any volunteer please contact: applications for use for advertising. mail@st marylebonesociety.org More applications were made in the Gaby Higgs and Cynthia Poole had met Dorset Square area than Church Street. with DST to discuss the matter in detail Church Street is the subject of a and in principle the DST objectives are aligned with those of the society. BS2W OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY massive long-term plan for 2019 redevelopment and the society have would need to be taken into consideration when implemented next Patron: Lord Montagu little influence on the project. In Chair: Gaby Higgs Cosway Street the Schoolmaster’s year, there will be many fewer red buses Vice-Chairman: Mike Wood House will be demolished despite on Gloucester Place. strong SMS objections. 2) Luxborough Save Our Space – Hon. Secretary: Mo Parkes Council Members: The Annual Planning Walk was held Eric Robinson – Kick-about Play Space. locally with an aerial survey from the The Luxborough SOS distributed a flyer Cynthia Poole roof of Berkeley Court. A further walk promoting a petition asking WCC not to (Planning Committee Chairman) for WCC junior planners was held later build flats on the site and honour their Robert McAulay in the year, led by John Wilman and own policy as this would set a (Newsletter and Membership) included a visit to the ‘nanny’s passage’ worrying precedent, with open space Mike Wood (Local History) in Park Crescent. Along the permanently lost. The hope is the Ian Wylie (Planning) Mary lebone Road, North West House hoarding would be removed and the Sara Gibson space kept as a Kick-about Play Space has been repurposed as rentable work- Patricia Kleinman spaces following large local opposition for all local youth with upkeep funding 2 KING’S SCHOLARS’POND SEWER PLANNING MATTERS • Westminster’s analysis of responses to their own consultation on improvements to Oxford Street will be released shortly. • We have also commented on Westminster’s latest draft City Plan. • Some changes to Westminster’s planning department and rules have also been made, which include allowing interested parties to speak at WCC planning subcommittees. John Walker, Director of Planning and originator of our yearly “Planning Walk”, has left WCC after this reshuffle. We wis h him well in his next venture and hope to see him at future walks. • Baker Street Two-Way: at the time of writing, it is likely that two-way Inside the new steel bridge liner over Platforms 5&6. Photo:Thames Water. operation will begin in late February, but Thames Water has spent £20million manhole no wider than the wheel of a the date will be confirmed. upgrading sewers in the Dorset Square van. Above ground, three small fenced- area during 2018. off areas of pavement allowed safe CORPORATE SUPPORTERS The King’s Scholars’ Pond Sewer* access through the manhole, and for Able Homecare follows the course of the Tyburn river, storage of equipment. Underground, in Alan Higgs Architects and is buried 2.1 metres beneath addition to the steel structure, the team Altiplano Finance Limited the junction of Baker Street and inserted a reinforced resin liner to Baker Street Quarter Partnership Marylebone Road. It is visible as a strengthen the sewer for around 120 Blandford Estate Residents’ Association closed cast iron bridge passing over the CAMBARD RTM Ltd years. The steel structure has been west end of Platforms 5&6. The 1850s Chiltern Court (Baker Street) Residents’ designed to not require maintenance for tunnel was fully operational throughout Limited the works and a stainless steel bridge the duration of that period, while the Clarence Gate Gardens Residents’ Association and liner were constructed off site, liner can be removed a panel at a time to allow the original Sir Joseph Dorset Square Hotel dismantled and rebuilt inside the sewer, Dorset Square Trust after being lowered underground, a Bazalgette brickwork to be inspected as Francis Holland School single piece at a time, through a narrow normal. Howard de Walden Estate Kubie Gold *Use of the Tyburn London Clinic as a sewer – in the Mac Services sense of a drainage Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Forum channel – goes back Madame Tussauds to the time of Henry (Merlin Entert ainment) VIII and before. Old Philologians The name comes Portman Estate Royal Parks from a pond near St Marylebone Parish Church Westminster School Terry Farrell & Partners where scholars once The Chiltern Firehouse Duplex steel Vierendeel Truss bathed, close to the The Fruit Garden inner cage and liner assembly.