Day 074 - 16 Jan 95 - Page 55
1 A. No.
2
3 Q. In the middle of that letter it says: "The restaurant
4 already causes considerable nuisance by way of environment/index.html">litter."
5 Would you agree with that statement?
6 A. No, I do not.
7
8 Q. That was in December 1992. So, the residents associations
9 were still concerned at that time about the problem of
10 environment/index.html">litter, yes?
11 A. Looking at this letter there is one resident who has
12 written.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In fact there are a number. They are all in
15 the same form.
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17 MR. MORRIS: The reason I concentrated on that one is that it
18 says, "I am writing on behalf Wellington Square
19 Residents". That is the one from the actual association
20 itself. The others are from individual residents, quite a
21 lot of them, yes, about, I do not know, 15 or something,
22 10; it does not matter. So, this is a year after your
23 party, yes, and the Wellington Square Residents Association
24 did not seem to be happy, did it, at that time? Can you
25 cast your mind back?
26 A. Nobody came to myself and spoke to me about any problem
27 with the environment/index.html">litter.
28
29 Q. But you were aware that people were making representations
30 direct to the Council?
31 A. At that time when we went for the meeting for the late
32 night cafe licence, that is the time when I was given this
33 copy.
34
35 Q. Right, so once you got that, did you recognise then that
36 the residents associations were still unhappy about the
37 environment/index.html">litter problem at that time?
38 A. In Wellington Square I just made sure that we checked
39 more often just to make sure that there was no environment/index.html">litter.
40
41 Q. That was a response to concerns that you became aware of
42 having read these letters, yes?
43 A. That is correct.
44
45 Q. Thank you. If we move on, when you saw these letters,
46 I just take, for example, page 757, the middle of it, the
47 main paragraph, the second sentence says: "The more cynical
48 of us, however," this is about environment/index.html">litter patrols "regarded
49 this as a public relations gesture and, sadly, we were
50 proved right." If we combine that comment from a resident
51 in Wellington Square with the one on page 763 also in
52 December 1992, it is the middle sentence of the first
53 paragraph, it says, "Since McDonald's opened we have been
54 inundated with rubbish on the streets", when you read these
55 letters were you shocked at the strength of the feeling?
56 A. I was for Wellington Square. I looked at it and
57 I checked it through, but I did not see any problem.
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59 Q. On page 765 in the middle of that page, a resident of
60 Wellington Square says: "We are already under siege from
