Government heritage adviser Historic England has been asked to fast-forward its listing appraisal for Herzog & de Meuron’s Stirling Prize-winning Laban Centre dance studio in south-east London following damage inflicted by Storm Eunice last month.

Campaign group the Twentieth Century Society last year applied to Historic England seeking grade-II* listing for the building at Deptford, which won the UK’s premier architecture prize in 2003, after concerns about a pipeline of high-rise development in the surrounding area.

It says that damage to the Laban Centre’s cladding, in the same storm that shredded part of the canopy of RSHP’s O2 Centre, means repairs will be necessary. The C20 Society wants Historic England to give its listing bid rapid consideration to ensure that any significant repair work is “suitably conservation-led”.

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