Talk:Swiss Cottage Library

Question
, do you have a reference for Camden originally planned to demolish the library with Swiss Cottage Sports Centre, I can't find it on Harwood p 496-8 or the listing. TSventon (talk) 01:43, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @TSventon sorry, this should been sourced to the RIBAJ, which is also where I got the quote that "demolition would have been a mistake".  –  I s o chrone (T) 09:27, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Refurbishment cost
The text says that the refurbishment cost £7.9 million in 2003 "equivalent to £184.3 million in 2019". This sounds pretty unlikely. Inflation in the UK has been bad but this is an increase of over 20 times in 16 years. There's no reference for the number so it's not possible to check where it came from. The Bank of England inflation calculator gives £11.28 in 2019 for £7.9 in 2003 so it seems at the very least the decimal point might be in the wrong place. 212.159.76.165 (talk) 11:16, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * IP editor, thank you for spotting this. I have corrected the inflation calculation, where the year had been entered as 1956 rather than 2003. TSventon (talk) 11:34, 30 September 2023 (UTC)