He said the new rules would help restore the reputation of the area. The Howard de Walden Estate is working with the London Clinic to build a cancer centre, which it hopes will become a world leader once it opens in 2009.īut Simon Baynham, managing director of the estate, told the magazine Estates Gazette that Harley Street had become far too associated with cosmetic surgery and other 'lifestyle' treatments. "We want to concentrate on what we believe is most appropriate for the area: what we feel is more lifestyle, we are trying to resist." "We have a limited number of clinics that we own and we want to make sure that as far as possible these people are practising necessary medicine rather than lifestyle or cosmetic medicine. He added: "There is an awful lot of leading-edge medicine going on and what we are doing is trying to focus as far as possible on that end of the spectrum. "We don't have any direct abortion clinics on the estate but this will prevent anyone trying to set up one." He said: "Abortion is a very emotive subject, but we feel that dealing with cancer is more important. The estate, which covers almost 100 acres of Marylebone, is owned by descendents of Edward Harley, the man who laid out the area at the start of the 18th century.Ĭhief executive Toby Shannon insisted the decision was only taken to ensure Harley Street focused on areas such as cancer and heart disease. Harley Street Clinic, and the King Edward VII. More than 3,000 practitioners work in the Harley Street district and there are more than one million square feet of medical clinics including a number of famous private hospitals. She took the reins of the estate in 2004 after a title wrangle following the death of her Church of England father. However the estate's owner 71-year-old Mary Hazel Czernin, 10th Baroness Howard de Walden, is a Catholic. It says the list, which also includes human cloning and euthanasia, is designed to give Harley Street a makeover after years in which it had become associated with 'lifestyle or cosmetic medicine'. The Howard de Walden Estate, which owns the freehold to a swathe of the Marylebone district in London, denies the decision has been taken for moral reasons. They have added 'lifestyle abortions' to a list of procedures that their tenants are forbidden to carry out. The Roman Catholic owners of Harley Street have banned abortion clinics from opening on their premises.
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