Marble Arch Mound: Pulling down the tourist attraction cost £660,000

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Marble Arch Mound: Pulling down the tourist attraction cost £660,000
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The £6m artificial hill opened incomplete, over budget and led to resignations before the decision was taken to pull it down.

Westminster Labour group which obtained the figures, condemned the scheme as a "monumental folly".He said the "financial incompetence" was linked to cuts of £500,000 to adult social services and the threat of closing Mayfair Library to save £200,000 a year in rent.

Cllr Dimoldenberg added: "Boris Johnson's Westminster Conservatives are completely out of touch with what residents want. "Wasting £6 million of public money should disqualify the Conservatives from running the council for a moment longer."The attraction was branded a "monstrosity" and a "disgrace" on social media while a

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