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  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Tony (Winterbottom), I have something else. The Mayor has just admitted that you use `expensive lawyers.' Those are his very words. When over 100 firms, then, employ lawyers to defend themselves in these situations in order to defend themselves and real jobs ' 11,000 real jobs in London ' they are then briefed against in the press. They are then briefed against and accused of being all sorts of things, which they are now completely fed up with ' that they are a handful, greedy; over 100 businesses employing 11,000 people are greedy. They are demonised, and then the lawyers...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Do you see my point, Tony (Winterbottom)?

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Like-for-like ' is that like-for-like? I do not think so.

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Then, of course, the thing you do not say during that ' the thing you do not say ' is that a large amount of that money has been wasted by yourselves, because these people started and got to heads of agreement terms last year on deals, which then incurred large amounts of lawyers', managers', project managers', and accountants' fees, and then you were the ones who stalled on it. I have a detail here of almost £200,000 worth of work done, which you have wasted. What is the most absurd thing ' and the fact that you are saying...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    One of these guys bought his land for £1.25 million. That was three years ago, and then it was valued by Porter Glenny, your people, at £1.071 million, a drop of 24%, when all the other land in the area, because of the Olympics, is going up.

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    How much has the LDA paid on lawyers? How much has the LDA paid on lawyers?

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    They were lobbying to get their businesses. They were lobbying.

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    One thing that I am concerned about: you talked about compensation and about being fair and within codes. What does this mean, in real terms, to the businesses affected? I will explain the reason why I am asking this. Many of the businesses have come to me ' and, in fact, come to many fellow Assembly Members ' and have made clear that the terms they are being offered mean they will have to spend anything up to 20%, 30%, or 40% more from either existing reserves or raised money to be able to continue on the promised like-for-like basis...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [21]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    You say `overpay.'

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [22]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    This is not like-for-like, is it? I am looking at a number of businesses, like Sortex, M Laurier and Sons, all of whom have made public statements, `We would be delighted with just simply like-for-like. We do not want to make any money. We were promised that.' What they are going to be, if anything ' £600,000 short. Let me just put it to you: if I came to you and wanted to take your flat in the area or house in the area, and then what happened was that in the process of all this, I took it from...