Policy information sourced from Lambeth Local Plan 2020-2035
Q4 Public art
- A. The council will encourage the provision of places and spaces suitable for artistic and cultural programming, and maintain a framework of local artistic programming specialists adept at working within the locality of new development, for example in theatre, music and the visual arts.
- B. The council will seek the retention of good-quality public art (including statues, memorials, murals and examples of historic street furniture). Where appropriate the council will seek contributions towards the provision of new, restoration or repair of existing off-site public art, including memorials and street furniture, in the locality of new development.
- C. The council will maintain an audit of public art works and will locally list those examples that are considered to be of sufficient special interest. Where in-situ retention of a permanent art work is not possible, where appropriate, the council will expect the decommissioned art work to be relocated to an appropriate place elsewhere within the borough.
- D. The council will seek the provision of appropriately located new public art in:
- opportunity areas and town centres; and
- large-scale redevelopment schemes.
- E. All new proposals for public art, must:
- be durable and robust;
- not compromise the flexibility of use or character of the space; and
- not harm visual amenity.
- F. In addition to (f) [sic] proposals for memorials must have:
- a clear and well defined historical or conceptual relationship with the proposed location. Proposals where there is no relationship between subject and location will not be considered; and
- arrangements in place for future maintenance such as an endowment if the proposal is to be erected on public land.
For more information please see the Local Plan