Planning officers say plan to build house connected to her studio fail to meet statutory conservation requirementsTracey Emin’s plans to knock down a listed 1920s building to erect a contemporary five-storey space for her to live and work face being dashed in the latest round of an increasingly bitter planning battle.
The Turner Prize nominee’s proposal to Tower Hamlets council in July to demolish a building in Spitalfields,London, and replace it with a large house connected to her studio attracted overwhelmingly negative responses from conservationists, or residents and local heritage groups. Since then,the number of representations received by the council in opposition to her plans for the Bell Lane property acquire more than doubled.
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Source: theguardian.com