Chiswick Butterflies Set to Fly Away in September
Eviction notice served to remove them from Police Station
Butterflies on the police station. Picture: Facebook
Abundance London, the organisation responsible for the display of butterflies currently adorning the wall of the former Chiswick Police Station, have confirmed that it is to be removed.
Having been up since last October, after people from across the community hand-painted the butterflies and flowers to add to the mural, a notice has been received to have them taken down by 2 September.
Abundance London posted on Twitter, “Our butterfly project on the old Police Station in Chiswick has received its eviction notice. Some of you may know we got our first eviction order 2 weeks after it went up last October, but we mulishly stayed put and we will have enjoyed almost a year before we go.”
Abundance London is now looking for ideas as to what to do with the 2,800 butterflies and Laura Ellener, head teacher at Chiswick School, has suggested it may be able to provide a new home for them.
The police station building at 205-207 Chiswick High Road has been purchased by Birchgrove Properties, a company which specialises in the development of retirement homes. It has yet to submit a planning application and when we asked them about progress on the development its spokesperson told us this week, “We have only recently acquired the site at Chiswick and are therefore in the process of formulating the plans in order to seek approval for development.”
They intend to start preliminary work on the building next month hence the requirement that the butterflies should be removed.
According to reports in the specialist property press, the planned development would include 48 apartments and amenity space for residents ‘and the wider community’.
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August 7, 2022
