Bow Street Police Station
The Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historic Collection have always valued our original aim to promote a publicly-open police museum. There has been a planning application with Westminster City Council since June 2007 in relation to the former Bow Street police station and magistrates' court. There will be a small space for a museum in the basement of this proposed development. The museum space covers a small entrance off Martlett Court, two former cells at ground level, and, at basement level, the area under the ground floor cells alongside Martlett Court, and under approximately half the former yard area. This is far less than the former proposal for Bow Street police station before the Metropolitan Police Authority sold the premises.
We understand that the planning application is at a stage when further information is being sought from the developers, and that representations may still be made to the Planning Department. The address to contact is:
Planning & City Development
Westminster City Hall
64 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QP
quoting reference 07/04852/Full and/or 07/04853/LBC , the address being 27 Bow Street, London WC2.
If you wish to view the plans, you may be able to do so through the Planning section Westminster City Council's website, quoting the above reference. http://www.westminster.gov.uk/environment/planning/planningprocess/planningapplications.cfm
If you wish to use a link direct to the ground floor and basement plans (your computer will need Acrobat reader- and it might take some time to load) click here:
To see a summary of a letter (May 2008) from CB Richard Ellis, believed to acting for the developers, click here