Day 074 - 16 Jan 95 - Page 26
1 or is it cul-de-sac?
2 A. It is a cul-de-sac. It actually runs behind Royal
3 Avenue, Smith Street, and there is one more street which is
4 next to Waitrose which is Walpole Street.
5
6 Q. Yes, if I walk down Smith Street from the Kings Road and
7 turned left into Woodfall Street, would I be able to carry
8 on walking and get out in Royal Avenue or would I come to a
9 dead end?
10 A. No, you would be able to walk through. I do not know
11 in this map -- no, sorry, no, you would not. No, you will
12 not be able to go through it because I know the pub is at
13 the corner -- yes, it is a dead end. It is a dead end,
14 sorry.
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16 MS. STEEL: So, of the three or four complaints a year that you
17 got, you only remember making two visits to residents'
18 houses?
19 A. That is correct, apart from when I sent out the
20 invitations. At that time I visited Linda Wells and I also
21 visited the Secretary of the Royal Avenue Residents
22 Association -- I do not recall her name -- and that was it.
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24 Q. You just visited those two for the purposes of the
25 invitations?
26 A. Yes, regarding the environment/index.html">litter problem.
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28 Q. How seriously were you taking these complaints?
29 A. Extremely seriously because you would not leave your
30 business in the busy time on Saturday when you are serving
31 the maximum number of customers and leave the restaurant
32 and go and try to investigate -- extremely seriously -- and
33 I do not think, you know, many people apart from
34 McDonald's, the restaurant manager, who will drive around
35 the street before they come to work and after they finish
36 work just to see how the work was carried out the night
37 before or during the day.
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39 Q. But you did not take it seriously enough to visit the other
40 people who made complaints and ask them about what they saw
41 the situation as?
42 A. I do not remember and I do not know who you are
43 referring to.
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45 Q. You said there were three or four complaints a year, the
46 other people who made complaints.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you assuming that he did not go and
49 respond to those or what?
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51 MS. STEEL: He said that he only visited two people. That is
52 what I am asking.
53
54 THE WITNESS: Those were the immediate thing that somebody had
55 asked me to come in. If there was a problem like, for
56 example, like I am suggesting with Linda Wells, when I had
57 a meeting with Linda Wells, I immediately sponsored four
58 bins. I also put two bins outside in the Royal Avenue. Of
59 course, extremely seriously I have, and I actually remember
60 I even got four, three or four, bins designed and I put
