Brixton campaigners celebrate as 20-storey Hondo tower plan scrapped after Texan millionaire DJ pulls project
A Texan millionaire DJ has pulled plans to build a 20-storey tower in the middle of Brixton. Taylor McWilliams’s property company Hondo has withdrawn its application to build the controversial office block just four days before a City Hall hearing was due to be held to determine the future of the plans. Hondo said delays to the project, which has been strongly opposed by campaigners, had made it difficult for the building to be delivered, in a letter addressed to City Hall by its agent DP9 on Monday (July 17) The withdrawal of the plans is a victory for local activists who have kept up a dogged fight to oppose the tower at every step since the proposals first came to light three years ago. Save Nour, a social media campaign against the tower that originated in light of Hondo Enterprises serving notice on Nour Cash and Carry in Brixton Village, announced news of the victory on Twitter last night (July 17). READ MORE: London's cheapest street on the Monopoly board set for reva...