Day 074 - 16 Jan 95 - Page 57
1 Smith was there, Nigel Parton was there, Peter Isles was
2 there. I do not remember -- Tony Jeff was there I think
3 and Philip Cobden I think.
4
5 Q. Are those people from head office, are they?
6 A. Yes, they are.
7
8 Q. Did you get a report of that meeting?
9 A. I was present at the meeting myself.
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11 Q. You were present?
12 A. I was present at the meeting.
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14 Q. At head office, was it?
15 A. No. It was done at Kings Road.
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17 Q. At Kings Road, so were there concerns expressed about
18 environment/index.html">litter at that meeting?
19 A. No, there were no concerns about the environment/index.html">litter at all at
20 the meeting.
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22 Q. That was not discussed; it was not relevant, it was not on
23 the agenda?
24 A. No. The meeting was called at the request of
25 Dr. Taylor. I am not sure who arranged the meeting, but
26 I was told there was a meeting with Dr. Taylor and to be
27 present at the meeting.
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29 Q. So what was discussed then?
30 A. Different things like smell.
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32 Q. OK, we will miss that out then. If we go back to the
33 letter actually of Dr. Taylor, 772 to 773, this is in 1992
34 end of, on 773 Dr. Taylor is saying, "The clearing of
35 rubbish around the premises is generally good". Read it
36 through, read those two paragraphs through on your own.
37 A. Yes, I have read it.
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39 Q. So, is that a fair summary of the situation as you see it
40 as well?
41 A. No. It was made clear that a lot of shopkeepers, they
42 stacked their bags outside and we were not to clear but to
43 stack them outside, because they were, as they said, the
44 Council lorries, the Council have collected the bags. The
45 Council bags have got special tape which is on put on to
46 the bins and on our bags there is no Council tape at all
47 because it was collected by the private collector of
48 rubbish.
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50 Q. Going back to the environment/index.html">litter problem, when he says, "Nothing
51 can apparently stop some of your customers throwing rubbish
52 into our residents' basement areas or dropping rubbish some
53 distance away from No. 49 outside the range of your
54 patrols", is that something that really you feel you cannot
55 do anything about?
56 A. No. If somebody drops environment/index.html">litter in the street that is why
57 we have environment/index.html">litter patrol to make sure we pick them up.
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59 Q. But if it ends up in the basement, then you cannot really
60 be responsible?
