Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill, London Saving the Local Pub: Why Buildings Like the Railway Bell Matter and How Communities Can Protect Them Historic pubs survive most securely not merely when they are listed or temporarily protected through planning refusal, but when communities succeed in embedding them once again within the social and economic life of the places around them.
Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill, London Featured Railway Bell Saved for Now: Lambeth’s Refusal Must Become the Basis for a Secure Community Future The Railway Bell has been saved for now. The task ahead is to ensure that it is not merely left standing, but secured in viable, lasting and community serving use.
Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill, London Open Letter to Lambeth Council: Refuse the Demolition and Redevelopment of the Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill The Railway Bell is a historic public house, long embedded in the social and architectural fabric of Gipsy Hill
Lambeth Lambeth and the Grammar of Redevelopment What is being dismantled is social infrastructure: the ordinary patterns of interdependence through which people make a district liveable.
Gipsy Hill Railway Bell Planning Objection: Why the Cawnpore Street Pub Scheme Should Be Refused Social infrastructure rarely disappears because a community no longer needs it. It disappears because it cannot easily survive the valuation regime imposed upon it.
