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Westminster’s deputy leader quits as MVRDV Mound costs spiral

By 2021-08-13T09:30:00

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£6m tourist attraction became international laughing stock

MVRDV’s much-derided Marble Arch Mound has claimed its first scalp, with the resignation of the deputy leader of Westminster council.

Mervyn Caplan was the councillor who led the project which was conceived as a way of encouraging shoppers and tourists back to Oxford Street after the pandemic decimated the West End economy.

Instead the 25m-tall artificial hill became an international laughing stock and costs have almost doubled to £6m.

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