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Camden New Journal - by DAN CARRIER
Published: 6 September 2007

‘Let public view mansion’

THE doors to Witanhurst mansion should be thrown open to the public, according to the Highgate Society.
The house, in Highgate West Hill, was sold for £32 million this summer to property developer the Cooper Group. It plans to market the mansion – London’s biggest private residence after Buckingham Palace – as a private home and reports this week suggested it could be sold on for more than £70 million.
The Highgate Society’s Michael Hammerson, who is on the civic group’s environment committee, has called on the Town Hall to make the new owners honour a planning brief drawn up by the society which would see the home open to the public.
He said: “We discussed the ideas of it being used as a conference centre or hotel with a restaurant. It would make the house part of the village and bring people into Highgate. People could go in there and have a meal. It would be a real attraction.”

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