Listed Buildings Prosecutions Database Commentary

51 listing description noted that the building interior had retained its fine quality fielded paneling, plasterwork to some ceilings, especially front first floor room, carved chimneypieces and the original octagonal enriched plaster drum to the stair skylight but has lost its original staircase and undergone a late C20 remodeling on the ground floor. A planning condition for the new childrens’ fashion store for Abercrombie and Fitch required that no internal decoration be undertaken before the Council approved a paint specification and colour scheme. A visiting officer of the council in March 2014 discovered “inappropriate redecoration” had taken already place in the finest room in the building. While acknowledging the defendants’ guilty pleas, Westminster Magistrates Court found that both AFH Stores UK and co-defendant Castletech Construction had acted in the full knowledge that the work was not permitted and that they were equally culpable. They were both fined £3,000, plus costs, on 3 June 2015 for a breach of a conditional listed building consent with total fines and costs awarded against the defendants amounting to nearly £16,000. (Source LPA) Westminster City Council [08-2016] 99 Star Street, Westminster, Listed Grade 2. The property situated in the Bayswater Conservation Area, London dated from c.1830 part of a terrace listed in April 1975. Husband and wife Mohammed Owadally and Seema Khan, both chartered accountants and their chartered structural engineer David Williams were successfully prosecuted by Westminster City Council on 7 th July 2016 at Hammersmith Magistrates Court, after the listed building was stripped of its the original butterfly roof, walls, floors chimney breasts and an external chimney stack, all without consent. The building had been acquired for £1.5m in August 2013 and the majority of the works were undertaken