Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan

CS11: Visitors, Arts and Culture

To maintain and enhance the City’s contribution to London’s world-class cultural status and to enable the City’s communities to access a range of arts, heritage and cultural experiences, in accordance with the City Corporation’s Visitor Strategy, by:

  1. Providing, supporting and further developing a wide range of cultural facilities, including the cultural quarter focussed on the Barbican complex, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Guildhall Art Gallery and City libraries and encouraging and promoting other facilities including the Museum of London. Encouraging the use of places of worship, livery halls and other venues, including the Bridewell Theatre, for cultural events alongside their primary uses.
  2. Maintaining the City’s existing collection of public art and culturally significant objects, pursuing opportunities to commission new, high quality pieces in appropriate locations.
  3. Protecting existing cultural facilities where they are needed, ensuring there is no net loss of cultural facilities in the City.
  4. Providing visitor information, increasing awareness of the City’s cultural and heritage assets and encouraging the City’s communities and visitors to make full use of its cultural and heritage facilities.
  5. Allowing hotel development where it supports the primary business or cultural role of the City and refusing new hotels where they would compromise the City’s business function or the potential for future business growth. Hotels should not be located where they would create amenity problems for existing residential areas.

For more information please see the Local Plan