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Chelsea Barracks plans unveiled
Changes to the proposed designs for the Chelsea Barracks site will be revealed at two public exhibitions.
Developer Project Blue will put on two displays of the proposals at the State Apartments of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea - one on Wednesday, December 10 from 6pm-9pm; the second on Saturday, December 13 from 9.30am-12.30pm.
Members of the development team, including managers, architects and advisers, will be on hand to provide answers to visitors' questions.
A Project Blue spokesman said the chapel on the Barracks site would need to be demolished to allow for 1.3 acres of open space to be incorporated into the plans.
He said: "We have been discussing for some time the subject of the former chapel which, if it is not demolished, will sit in the middle of the proposed new publicly accessible open space.
"Recently, we have taken soundings from senior representatives of the Guards regiments who served at Chelsea Barracks and they have been unanimous in stating that they have no sentimental or other attachments to the building and would be completely unconcerned if it was demolished.
"There are two remaining memorials in the chapel which we have offered to remove and store for the Guards.
"The landscaped garden, which our neighbours and Westminster City Council are demanding, can only be delivered if the chapel is demolished.
"Westminster City Council's planning brief stated that the barrack buildings should be replaced with buildings of a higher architectural quality, reflecting the site's surroundings and townscape.
"In any event this will happen but, if the chapel remains, the landscaped gardens will be seriously compromised."
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