AIMS AND OPERATIONS
The objects of the Trust are defined in its Memorandum & Articles of Association and include the conservation of the Covent Garden Area, its architectural character, its buildings and features of historical or architectural interest and the development of its special qualities in the public interest including the preservation of the mix of residential, business and other uses which characterise the Area. Also the promotion of high standards of planning in the Area, its development and improvement and the promotion of the growth of new and traditional uses appropriate to the Area.

The “Covent Garden Area” and “the Area” means that area of Central London bounded by Kingsway, Aldwych, High Holborn, Shaftesbury Avenue, Charing Cross Road and the Strand.

The Trust is governed by a Council of up to 24 Trustees, including representatives of local council and community groups and nominees of designated bodies who reflect the public interest.
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The Council meets formally on a regular basis to consider matters submitted by freeholders of The Protected Lands and other questions that arise from time to time.

In pursuance of its objects, the Trust also concerns itself in the wider issues affecting the Covent Garden Area.

To help explain a little more about the Trust’s role in Covent Garden, read the Trust’s former Chairman’s address to the Royal Town Planning Institute's London branch in October 2000 (speech by Geoffrey Holland OBE) and an article written jointly by Raymond Cooper (now the Trust’s Chairman) and Teige O’Donovan of Farrer & Co (the Trust’s lawyers), reprinted from the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law in December 1998 (Covent Garden: A Model for Protection of Special Character).

Covent Garden Area Trust
13 New Row, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4LF
Tel: 020 7497 9245
Fax: 020 7240 2405
Registered Charity no. 299874