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Initially, Westminster City Council only used the 20th floor, but gradually expanded to take the whole building. The principal rooms were the Mayor's parlour on the 19th floor and the committee rooms on the 18th floor, which were used for cabinet meetings as well as committee meetings.
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In the early 1960s, in anticipation of the impending further enlargement of the council's area, civic leaders again decided they needed larger facilities; the site they selected formed part of a larger development by
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on a site previously occupied by Prince's Mansions in Victoria Street. The proposed development was a 76.20 metres (250.0 ft) high, 20-storey glass tower, designed by
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was formed in 1900, civic leaders decided the Caxton Street building was inadequate for their needs, and decided to find larger facilities; they selected
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Prince's Mansions was a large block of apartments, of a type known locally as "mansion flats", designed by Enoch Basset Keeling and completed in 1882.
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The building was stripped back to a concrete shell during an extensive refurbishment between 2017 and 2019.
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was formed in March 1965, shortly before the completion of the new town hall in April 1965.
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Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, Julia; Keay, John (2008).
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Westminster
51°29′51″N 0°08′15″W / 51.4976°N 0.1374°W / 51.4976; -0.1374
Burnet Tait & Partners
Modern style
Westminster City Hall is located in City of Westminster
Westminster
Westminster City Council
St Margaret and St John
Westminster Town Hall
Caxton Street
Metropolitan Borough of Westminster
an existing building
Charing Cross Road
Land Securities
Burnet Tait & Partners
modern style
Taylor Woodrow Construction
City of Westminster
"Caxton Hall - foundation stone"
"London Government Act 1899"


"London's Town Halls"


The London Encyclopaedia
ISBN
978-1405049245
"Ordnance Survey Map"

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