Willesden Green Library Centre still appears to be subject to controversy in some quarters. I had hoped that I exploded these a while ago. Some people seem to repeat the various canards nonetheless.
In fact, the new library will be bigger by about 100 square metres, and the interim library is the second most popular library in Brent.
UPDATE
The comment below really strains the facts to be as negative as possible. In fact there was no cinema, in the sense of a place you might watch a film. It went out of business years ago. The bookshop, like Kilburn Bookshop and many others, was struggling financially because of developments like the Internet. The sale of housing is a necessary part of the deal to pay for cultural centre, in a similar way to the development at Clapham.
Using a series of distort ions to denigrate anything that is new is unlikely to lead to any form of progress.
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94 square metres larger to be precise. That's a whopping 6% increase on the previous Library. All at the expense of our bookshop, cinema, town squre and with a question mark over whether the increase includes circulation space. Nerds can debate a square meter here or there; fact of the matter is the Library was demolished to build luxury flats.
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