Re: Re: O’ Connell Street

Many leases are very specific about both internal and external painting requirements as a general rule of thumb one could say that external joinery would have a standard 5 year re-painting obligation. Many occupiers find to their cost that when they surrender properties mid-lease or at expiration that many landlords are only too happy to enforce a ‘schedule of dilapidations’ on tenants that have failed to observe the covenants they have entered into at the commencement of the lease.

Those contrasts are very clear and McDowells deserve praise for the condition of their building which I imagine given their long history at this site is probably owner-occupied and it is ultimately the owners of buildings who are liable under the protected structure legislation.

The terrace is pretty striking, although not a particularly unified design the different elevations work pretty well together, it says a lot for peoples appreciation of architecture that terraces such as this are often over-looked by the public who seem to prefer the grander set-pieces or the Georgian Squares.

Good to see the diggers are down there, I read that The Herbert Park Tearooms project which is based on the kiosks to be put onto O’Connell St has been postponed until mid-summer because the city architects dept wish to assess the impact of the kiosks when they are ‘put into O’Connell St in June’ I hope that this report is accurate.