The re-siting of the cooling plant in the old roof instead of on the Crown Court frontage.
Glass back-lit fire escape doors with CCTV in Crown Court to deter loitering.
Retention of gas lights in Crown Court.
No roof plant other than a cleaning gantry on the new building.
Since its inception, Salmon Harvester Properties Ltd has completed over £300 million of developments and currently has a substantial development portfolio which is UK wide and undertaken in all sectors including retail, office, industrial, distribution and leisure. In Covent Garden it is currently redeveloping 51-54 Longacre/45-47 Floral Street to create a 12,000 sq ft retail unit and a new headquarters and dance studios for the Royal Ballet School. This is part new build and part restoration of a listed building. The Company says that its mission is to create first class investments as well as development profits and it undertakes a large number of bespoke developments for specific occupiers.
Salmon Developments manage all aspects of the development programme utilising its skills to identify profitable developments, undertaking site assembly and negotiation of land acquisition by option, conditional contract, private treaty or tender.
In this case Salmon Harvester Properties Ltd submitted the winning tender of fourteen firms approached by Bow Street Partners Ltd to provide the finance and professional developer skills to undertake the property aspects for the project. On the one hand it will supply the space and most of the money for Bow Street Partners to provide the museum. On the other hand it will turn the old Victorian Police Station into a 'trophy' property with a very long term future.
Following historical research and measurement of the building, a geophysical survey was undertaken to establish details of the existing construction and any below ground obstructions.
On the basis of these results
three suitable borehole locations were selected and borings taken down
to approximately 30 metres below ground levels. The boreholes had to penetrate
the existing basements and found a sequence beneath of historic fill up
to one metre thick, overlying natural sand and gravel. The London Clay
was found to be present at depths of around 7.5 metres below ground level.
Samples of the various materials are currently being subjected to chemical
and physical laboratory testing to establish their engineering characteristics.
Archaeologists are intending to dig two trial pits to see if they can
find any significant remains of the Saxon town of Lundenwic which occupied
the site before the Norman invasion and its reversion to garden.
When the Police Station and Magistrates Courts were built they were set back so that the Street could be widened.