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London<\/a>‘s Southbank Centre<\/a>\u00a0announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with skateboarding<\/a>\u00a0group Long Live Southbank, and is\u00a0dropping plans to move\u00a0the famous skatepark to a new site underneath Hungerford Bridge nearby. The decision, which is ensured by a binding planning agreement with Lambeth Council, brings a close to a dispute that has lasted almost a year and a half – ever since the Southbank Centre unveiled\u00a0redevelopment plans<\/a> by Feilden Clegg Bradley<\/a>\u00a0which included the\u00a0removal of the skatepark in favour of retail space in the Southbank’s undercroft.<\/p>\n

The agreement also involves both sides dropping a series of legal challenges initiated during the dispute, including the Southbank’s challenge over\u00a0the registration of the skatepark as an ‘asset of community value,’ an attempt by Long Live Southbank to have the skatepark listed as a village green, and a judicial review of Lambeth Council’s decision to reject the village green application.<\/p>\n

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In return, Long Live Southbank has announced that they are “pleased to support Southbank Centre’s Festival Wing project,” which aims to improve the Southbank’s three cultural destinations, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and the Hayward Gallery.<\/p>\n

“I’m pleased that Lambeth Council was able to work with both sides and find an imaginative solution to resolve this,” said Lambeth Council Leader Lib Peck. “Shared public space in London<\/a> is precious and Southbank Centre is a great asset to the country’s cultural life. This agreement is a sensible way of protecting both and we can all now look forward.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Southbank Centre looked set to go ahead with its plans to move the skatepark, with a design<\/a>\u00a0by SNE Architects<\/a>\u00a0for a new\u00a0skatepark nearby. However, their plan was dealt a major blow when\u00a0Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced his support of the skateboarders, which many saw as an implication that he would personally reject any planning\u00a0application which involved the move.<\/p>\n

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Shortly afterward, the Southbank Centre announced that they were postponing their planning application<\/a>\u00a0by another three months while they explored alternative options for the redevelopment, saying “it is far from clear how the scheme might now proceed without exposing\u00a0Southbank Centre\u00a0to unacceptable levels of financial risk.” There is still no indication whether they have a plan to fund the redevelopment now that one of their key\u00a0methods of funding the scheme, the retail units in the undercroft, has been eliminated.<\/p>\n

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