Listed Buildings Prosecutions Database Commentary

6 Camden London Borough Council [10-1993] 31 Doughty Street, London N1 Listed Grade 2. One of a terrace of ten houses built by Slaton and Golden between 1794 and 1810. Consent had been given to St Pancras Housing Association demolish the interiors of Nos. 29 & 30 Doughty Street but this did not apply to No.31. Architect John Melvin was fined £2,000 (the then maximum figure) and the Housing Association fined £1,000 with costs of £5,500 for retaining the façade but gutting and totally rebuilding the interiors. The local planning authority was initially alerted by English Heritage that everything except the floor structure and staircase of No.31 had been stripped from behind the front wall. (Source PlanningWeek 14/10/1993) Camden London Borough Council [1995] 40 Chalcot Road, London N1 Unlisted in a Conservation Area. Persistent failure to comply with an Enforcement Notice for eleven years led to a jail sentence for the owner of the Fanaari Greek Restaurant, a Victorian property in the Primrose Hill Conservation Area. Camden had issued the Enforcement Notice in May 1984 but in spite of an initial fine of £150 with £250 costs and a court order in 1986 to comply, the owner Mr. George Onoufriou failed to do so. Magistrate decided the owner should be jailed until the fine was paid having been told the owner had sold the restaurant for £200,000 and was about to retire to Cyprus with the £2,000 he had left after paying off his debts. The defendant was taken into custody but was released three-quarters of an hour later after his £5,000 fine and costs of £794 had been paid in cash. (Source: local newspaper cutting) Cherwell District Council [08-1994] Kings Arms Hotel, Market Square, Bicester, Listed Grade 2. Listed in March 1970. Listed building consent was obtained for internal alterations but not for the unauthorised replacement of an 18 th Century Venetian window to the courtyard. The designer Mr. Lawrence Bacon and his contractor claimed that the