Legal battle sees Soho Society back home after three decades

Published: 04 February 2011
by JOSH LOEB

THE Soho Society is  to return to its home  of more than three decades after the first stage of its legal battle was completed on Monday.

At a directions hearing to resolve the row over the amenity group’s lease, the worshipful Nigel Seed QC Chancellor of the Diocese of London provisionally ruled that the amenity group should be allowed back into St Anne’s Church, Soho, for an interim period, pending the main part of the hearing later this year.

A final decision on the matter is now due to be made at the Diocese of London consistory court in Lambeth on May 5.

In December the Soho Society were evicted from the room in the tower of the Dean Street church, where they had been based for more than three decades. 

The Parochial Church Council at St Anne’s is appealing for a licence for the room to be converted for use by an NHS trust.