Page 10 - February 2020

Updates on Planning reports
Kilmuir House
We have reported on this before and the Plans have been updated and a good deal of our suggestions have been adopted and incorporated in the final design. We met the developers’ representatives at the beginning of the month with two members who live near to the site.
There will be 54 residential units, four of them duplex. There will be electric charging units for cars. The planning application is expected to be submitted in the next few weeks. They hope to have consent by late summer. The present short term tenants will leave during the year and the developers hope to start on site in the summer of 2021. They expect to service the site from Ebury Street and Semley Place.
The demolition will take about 3 months. It is hoped the building will be completed by 2023.
The computer generated pictures show you how the building will look. This seems very much more in keeping with the area than the present 1960s building. The really good news is that it will be no higher than the present Kilmuir House.
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Chelsea Barracks
You will remember that the café/restaurant on the site was only open until the end of last year. We understand that there are ongoing discussions to identify a new operator with the hope that it will open by the summer, although they are hoping to have something ready for the Chelsea Flower Show. We are told that the internal fit out of properties is well underway (bathrooms and kitchens) and this should be completed by Easter time.
Phase 4 Marketing Suite will be at ground floor level. This will be converted to retail units which will overlook Garrison Square facing the Chapel. Scaffolding has been taken down.
As for the future of the development we are advised that the pace of build out of the development will depend on a number of factors including sales on the early phases. Phase 6 may begin before Phase 5. We have always known that the building in phases depended on sales and also changes in market conditions generally. In answering
a question from a local resident, it was said that the public would have access through
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