Drivers Jonas - Mixed-Use Development - London SW1, Millbank

Date: 14 May 2002

Westminster gives go ahead for new Chelsea College of Art and Design Westminster City Council, this week formally granted planning permission for the Chelsea College of Art and Design's proposals to move to the former Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, adjacent to Tate Britain in Pimlico, London, SW1.

The proposals will regenerate the Ministry of Defence site to provide one of the world's leading educational institutions for art, design and communications. The proposals involve the refurbishment and reuse of a series of Edwardian Grade II listed buildings. 10,000 sq m of new accommodation is also to be constructed to provide major new gallery space for some of the UK's most talented emerging artists.

Work is due to begin in early 2003 with the site occupied by the start of the 2004 academic year.
Peter Bovill, associate within the planning and development team at Drivers Jonas, who is the appointed planning consultant, said: "The Council's decision will bring back into use a significant site on the bank of the River Thames and allow public access for the first time, to create a new cultural quarter, with Tate Britain's new centenary development next door."

Michael Benson, Communications and Marketing Manager at the College added: "Westminster's decision gives the go ahead to London Institute (of which Chelsea is a constituent College) to begin working with organisations such as Tate, the LDA and the GLA to develop an exciting new creative quarter on Millbank."

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