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The people of Brixton are not massive fans of the new development planned by a developer-cum-DJ and a U.S. private firm, if the opinions shared on the website for the planning department of Lambeth Council is any indication.
Last month UK developer Hondo Enterprises and private equity firm Angelo Gordon submitted plans for a 200K SF office scheme in the centre of Brixton, on a site next to the famous Brixton Markets, as well as an extension of the market itself. Of the 117 people who have submitted a comment to Lambeth Council, 114 are against the scheme, just three in favour.
The office element of the proposed scheme will rise to 19 storeys, and is unlike anything that has been built before in Brixton, an area of London synonymous with London’s black population since large amounts of immigrants from the Caribbean settled there in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. And with that size, scale and difference has come opposition and criticism. It is the debate about urban gentrification in microcosm.
Hondo is run by former Atlas Capital Director Taylor McWilliams, who is also a founder of DJ collective Housekeeping and is a semi-regular feature in the pages of society magazines like Tatler, having dated Prince Harry’s ex Chelsy Davy.In March 2018, Hondo teamed up with Angelo Gordon to pay…
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