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Conservation Strategy - Executive Summary

Aim

  • to ensure that significant features of the built heritage, both buildings and spaces in the Regent Street area, are protected and enhanced in accordance with the Regent Street Conservation Plan
  • to ensure that stakeholders and the public are aware of the Conservation Plan by providing information and advice to organisations active within the Regent Street area; and to ascertain and maintain in the long-term support for the plan from a variety of interested parties, including regulatory authorities, tenants of properties and the public
  • to provide guidance to those planning changes or undertaking maintenance in Regent Street; and to provide a basis for "in principle" agreements with Westminster City Council (WCC) and others involved in the statutory planning process

Strategy - The Regent Street Conservation Plan

  • buildings
    • to enhance public spaces and tenant-occupied areas
    • refurbish/redevelop buildings where fabric is poor or without architectural/historic interest, with new construction of the highest architectural standards
    • refurbishments/redevelopments behind retained facades to respect significant fabric and ensure its long-term viability, with new structures to relate to fabric
    • fabric repair/maintenance programme instituted, with a Regent Street Gazetteer register to be kept
  • the setting
    • traffic calming/reduction measures sought to enhance the Regent Street environment and ambience
    • street signs, furniture, street lighting and pavement lights to be reviewed with improved road/pavement finishes in side streets sought
    • service areas improvements to include off-street refuse storage
    • 24-hour public lavatories to be provided/maintained (Regent Street southern end)
    • inappropriate street traders to be removed
    • improved street maintenance programme instituted, to enhance the environment
  • promoting awareness
    • promote findings of historical research, engender an interest and understanding of Regent Street origins
    • sponsor exhibitions and encourage website and 'street trail' usage
    • engender a sense of propriety amongst new tenants, produce for them briefing notes on a building-by-building basis, explaining the history and significance of the building they occupy