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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) [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) [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...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Like (Robert) Mugabe (president of Zimbabwe) ' exactly.