Kensington & Chelsea Council admit lack of consultation over Earls Court sculpture (Kensington and Chelsea Liberal Democrats)

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Kensington & Chelsea Council admit lack of consultation over Earls Court sculpture

February 16, 2010 8:32 PM

The site of the proposed art. (Copyright Paul Farmer. Licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence)

Site of the proposed artwork. (Copyright Paul Farmer. Licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence)

Robin Meltzer, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Kensington, has called for the local Council to start its process for choosing a site for public art in the Earls Court area from scratch after the Council admitted that they had failed to consult properly on its location, the artist or the artwork.

At a heated meeting on 15th February which was billed as "a conversation about art", dozens of residents stood up to say none of them would have chosen the site at the junction of Warwick Road and Old Brompton Road for this piece of artwork if the Council had consulted them.

Robin Meltzer said: "Public art has a relationship with its environment and to the people who will see it every day. To exclude those people from the process of choosing not only the art but also the location for that art is ridiculous.

"Now that the Council has admitted that its consultation on the Warwick Road location was seriously flawed, the entire process should now stop and begin again."