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From: Yvonne
Hewett Sir, Bill Henry rather missed the point with the speakers in favour of the Dawnay Day scheme at the meeting on 28 Feb. There were 9 speakers, of whom only one, Howard Greenwood, has not at some stage been directly involved with the Council or the Developer. Howard is the Chairman of the Richmond Concert Society. He has long espoused a performance space on the riverside. Then came: Jeremy Sandle, Chairman of the Twickenham Town Centre Management Board, which is partly subsidised by the Council, and, as was pointed out from the floor, it has recently received a donation of £5,000 from Dawnay Day John Austin, former acting Twickenham Town Centre Manager (a Council post) John Coombs, Twickenham Arts Council, has long been associated with the LBRuT facilities for the arts -- and he damned the development with faint praise David O'Neill, the scheme's developer Toby Johnson, the scheme's architect Mr Leslie from Dawnay Day's agents John Egan, from WS Atkins, who produced the Traffic Analysis the limitations of which John Bell illustrated A professional planning advisor -- a hired gun. This does not exactly amount to a rousing community endorsement of the scheme; in fact, in the face of the 17 excellent local speakers for the opposition, it indicates a profound LACK of support for it. Sincerely, Yvonne
Hewett
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