Barristers object to Cycle Superhighway near Inns of Court

A group of barristers and residents at the Inns of Court are to fight a Cycle Superhighway that they say will “create a stranglehold” on the Temple area of London, according to City A.M.

A number of barristers maintain that bringing the Cycle Superhighway into the Blackfriars area via Tudor Street, New Bridge Street and Temple Avenue will cause havoc for businesses and residents and block some of the lucrative deals for filming by big productions.

The barristers intend to present an alternative Superhighway route.

Gregory Jones QC said: “The scheme is unnecessary and would threaten the Temple as an international film venue. Harry Potter, Mission Impossible and Silk have all been filmed here. This is just one aspect that is helping generate revenues for the City of London.”

Baroness Butler-Sloss said: "We are in a process of being fenced in. With two road closures, they are creating a double problem for the Middle and Inner temple and we only have one entrance into the Temple which is in Tudor Street. Consequently, we are absolutely hamstrung by what the City intends to do.”

Gregory Jones added: ”The Inns of Court are quite an accommodating body – so it is exceptional for us to ever have objected in this way. But it is cutting off our lifeline and the City is putting the Inns in a position where reluctantly they will have to take a robust line," he said.

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