Here are links to a number of publications and articles which provide a broad background to the history of the redevelopment of Seven Dials and Covent Garden as a whole. We've included some documents which we believe are not to be found anywhere else on the web.
COVENT GARDEN PLANNING
Greater London Council, London Borough of Camden, City of Westminster
1968
The draft plan drawn up by the consortium of local authorities following the decision to move the wholesale market out if Covent Garden.
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Greater London Council
1971
Revised Plan for the Proposed Comprehensive Development Area.
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Bieda & Petersson
1976
The formal response to the draft Local Plan by the Covent Garden Forum of Representatives.
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The Covent Garden Action Area Plan
Greater London Council, London Borough of Camden, City of Westminster
1978
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The Covent Garden Action Area Plan Statement**
Greater London Council
1978
The adopted Plan.
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Judy Hillman, for the Greater London Council
1986
Narrative history of the journey towards the adopted Covent Garden Area Plan.
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**Courtesy of The Covent Garden Area Trust Library.
SEVEN DIALS
The Seven Dials Trust
1989
Illustrates some of the Trust's early works in preparing for and constructing the Sundial Pillar.
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Seven Dials — Re-inventing a Lost Neighbourhood
David Bieda
2009
A feature article published in Newsforum, the quarterly newsletter of The London Forum of Amenity & Civic Societies.
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Lighting Conservation Areas — An Illuminating Journey
David Bieda
Winter, 2017
In this feature article David Bieda, Chairman of the Seven Dials Trust, tells the story of a unique award-winning lighting partnership between the voluntary, statutory and private sectors.
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