Regarding your last para, overall I'm not at all confused save your award, which I now know was an MBE, will definitely try and spell your surname correctly in future.Karen, as a published author, you do have a remarkable writing talent when it comes to misleading others as to what is fact and what isn't by a publishing a grain of truth surrounded by a bushell of inaccuracies. For instance Sam Harrison won his case to have outside dining which gave Chisou the same facility, both used this facility. Never mind that residents had additional noise pollution with both Environmental Services and Police being called for late night noise / ASB or access was inconvenient.As for Sam's petition having 7 times more signatures, that's because he also got his Balham customers to sign his petition ! Thus, not a level playing field and not sure why the views of South West London folk should be considered valid above those of the adversely affected Council Tax paying local residents whose weren't It's also worth noting that at the CAF, yes I did speak, and Chiswick's Councillors also spoke and objected, as did a resident of Devonhurst Place speaking on behalf of her fellow residents, yet you omit to mention this.Barley Mow Passage is a dingy little road so it was no surprise that the outside dining didn't work commercially and had nothing to do with me, as much as you'd clearly like to apportion blame in my direction. As posted by others, Sam sold his business with the benefit of outside dining to Hawksmoor who traded under the name of Foxlow, who couldn't make it work either ! Basically, Sam got what he wanted but couldn't make it work and he sold up. Must say I'm surprised that you didn't know that he got outside dining but are happy to imply he didn't with the implication that was down to me - it wasnt.Moving on, and getting to your real motive in making your first post on this thread, when we met by accident outside HSBC, and what we discussed. This was about the LendLease scheme you had for planting on their land which went pear shaped, you told me you had Heads of Terms agreed with them, a relevant point though, HoT's aren't legally binding until Exchange of Contracts is completed - didn't you know that ? When I mentioned to you that I'd been forwarded emails by the businesses you had 'persuaded' to support this scheme - my my my the your language was something to marvel at ! You were clearly surprised and very angry about these emails getting into the wider domain. As an aside, I suspect the reason for LendLease pulling out was your vigorous objection and legal campaign to their Empire House redevelopment, which by the way, I supported your campaign by both attending your meetings and with several financial contributions - I guess you'd forgotten that or maybe a bit of confusion on your part ?Finally, an apology without any caveats is required, and as previously mentioned I'm not at all confused, more like bemused as to why you published that first paragraph of your first post, without checking your facts first, thus making it defamatory.
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