Planning application to demolish Willesden Library withdrawn

A controversial planning application which would have seen a Victorian Library in Willesden High Road demolished has been withdrawn.
Plans for the re-development Willesden Green Library Centre, in High Road, Willesden will now be re-drafted by the developers Galliford Try.
The plans have attracted much criticism with campaign groups who have called for the old library, which was built in 1894 and stands in front of the current building to be preserved.
A spokesman for Brent Council said the decision to redraft the plans was to “allow more time to consider the design of the new cultural centre.” (Brent and Kilburn Times)