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Michael Welbank died on September 15, aged 90, having worked as a hugely successful architect and town planner, but also having bridged an often prickly Hampstead divide: He was chair of the City of London Corporation’s Heath Management Committee while also an active member of the Heath and Hampstead Society.
In his City councilman role, he was the man ultimately in charge of seeing the controversial Ponds Project – which saw dams constructed to protect against flooding, despite opposition in much of north London.
But to...