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News of its closure at the start of this year was greeted with sadness by many former customers. Tags Chef , Restaurants and Closures. It meant letting the developer build more office space in return for ceding to the LCC some of the land it had purchased in the area in order to get the roads done. The original application, submitted in mid-August , was for two buildings, the taller one 24 stories high. This was the first plan for Centre Point and it was to be built on the island of the new roundabout.
At a meeting between the architect and the planners in late August, the former raised the possibility of increasing the amount of office space and argued for an additional six floors in the main building. The cost of acquisition is found to be very considerably in excess of earlier appraisals. For the purpose of making the development financially feasible it is essential that the scheme shall include the maximum proportion of offices.
London, thankfully, never got the roundabout. The following year, he got four more. Centre Point became the tallest building in London.
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