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Middlesex Guildhall - STOP THIS FOLLY!
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Worth reading... can't say that I'm impressed by the Lord Chancellor's appearance before the Commons Select Committee, who appears not to be in full possession of the facts and his dismissive attitude rather unendearing... look forward to the 'evidence' he now says he can present.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmconst/uc465-i/uc46502.htm
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmconst/uc465-i/uc46502.htm
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I'll read that, just as soon as I've finished War and Peace.
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It's actually not too long and very interesting! At least I thought so.
He clearly hasn't a clue which is worrying but unsurprising...
Rather silly of him to be so arrogant and dismissive.
He clearly hasn't a clue which is worrying but unsurprising...
Rather silly of him to be so arrogant and dismissive.
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Remember that this is the era of Blairism. What else would you expect?
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I don't think that any previous administration was any better really... politicians, totally not to be trusted!
The idea that no developer would be prepared to build something new for thirty five million is wonderful...
The idea that no developer would be prepared to build something new for thirty five million is wonderful...
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I'll do it for thirty-four and a half. And for that kind of money I'll even get a Part P sparky to do the electrics.
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Times:
* The Lord Chancellor made clear last week that pending any last-ditch appeal over Middlesex Guildhall as the site for the new supreme court, things are now full steam ahead. Adam Wilkinson, secretary of Save Britain’s Heritage, had earlier left MPs in no doubt as to what he thought of this “complete pointless vandalism” that would mean the Victorian Gothic revival listed interior of the Guildhall stripped — and in a way that a private individual who owned a historic house would never be allowed to do. As for increasing public access to the work of the courts, it was far more likely that a greater variety and number visited the (just closed) Crown Court than would ever visit the supreme court to peer through its proposed sheet of glass at the law lords, or supreme court justices, doing their work, he told the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Lord Falconer of Thoroton was unperturbed. A balance had to be struck and a decision had been made, he said — adding cheerfully that bits of the building would be preserved: the “throne” would go to an exhibition area in the new building; the bench-ends were being kept and the panelling preserved while other “bits” would go to Snaresbrook Crown Court. Words cannot do justice to the faces of Mr Wilkinson and Dr Kathryn Ferry, senior architectural adviser of the Victorian Society, as they sat behind him receiving this crumb of comfort.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1693904.ece
Yes, I can just imagine Adam's face...
* The Lord Chancellor made clear last week that pending any last-ditch appeal over Middlesex Guildhall as the site for the new supreme court, things are now full steam ahead. Adam Wilkinson, secretary of Save Britain’s Heritage, had earlier left MPs in no doubt as to what he thought of this “complete pointless vandalism” that would mean the Victorian Gothic revival listed interior of the Guildhall stripped — and in a way that a private individual who owned a historic house would never be allowed to do. As for increasing public access to the work of the courts, it was far more likely that a greater variety and number visited the (just closed) Crown Court than would ever visit the supreme court to peer through its proposed sheet of glass at the law lords, or supreme court justices, doing their work, he told the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Lord Falconer of Thoroton was unperturbed. A balance had to be struck and a decision had been made, he said — adding cheerfully that bits of the building would be preserved: the “throne” would go to an exhibition area in the new building; the bench-ends were being kept and the panelling preserved while other “bits” would go to Snaresbrook Crown Court. Words cannot do justice to the faces of Mr Wilkinson and Dr Kathryn Ferry, senior architectural adviser of the Victorian Society, as they sat behind him receiving this crumb of comfort.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1693904.ece
Yes, I can just imagine Adam's face...
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Released under the FoI Act:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F195BE54-8B8D-48E3-90D9-B52C40EC4D4C/0/cms70729.pdf
Costs:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462090&in_page_id=1770
Or:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1948755.ece?token=null&offset=12
http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F195BE54-8B8D-48E3-90D9-B52C40EC4D4C/0/cms70729.pdf
Costs:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462090&in_page_id=1770
Or:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1948755.ece?token=null&offset=12