In photos: the derelict SW9 Bar in Brixton, seven years after being forced to close by an offshore property developer
This is the sad sight of the SW9 Bar in Dorrell Place, Brixton today, seven years after property developers forced the owners to shut up shop. The LGBT friendly café …
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This is the sad sight of the SW9 Bar in Dorrell Place, Brixton today, seven years after property developers forced the owners to shut up shop.
The LGBT friendly café bar permanently closed in December 2019, supposedly to make way for a 96 bedroom hotel which is yet to materialise
Despite bar proprietor Alan Culverhouse running the bar for two decades, he received just £18,000 compensation from the anonymous offshore company who terminated his lease.
This plans sparked a lively discussion on the Brixton forum, where many hoped the bar could be saved, and in Sept 2017 we reported: “Residents furious as public consultation plans for major Brixton hotel development are rushed through.”
Seven years on, no work has started on the hotel, so there was no reason to have forced the bar to close in the first place. And that makes us rather angry.
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